Peer Assessment for Yanhong

Link to the Yanhong Xi’s Teaching Video: http://youtu.be/xRWu1r6bLlY

Topic of Yanhong’s teaching was Globalization. She taught the lesson to a group of 3^rd year students of Business Administration at Oulu University of Applied Sciences. The topic is part of the required knowledge for the students who are participating in the course of International Marketing.

The teaching video is quite well constructed to show her classroom teaching consisting of following activities:

      ·        Lesson Introduction (00:30) 

      ·        Activity 1: Define Globalization (00:59)

o   Group discussion (01:14), Video watching (02:04), Presenting discussion (02:47)

      ·        Activity 2: Benefits & Criticism of Globalization (03:40)

o   Group discussion (03:54)

      ·         Wrap-up (06:36)

At the end of the video, she provided also interview footage of student participant (08:38) and supervising teacher (09:00).

As my understanding, she used actively Learning Through Discussion method which might be designed to achieve some goals of constructivism based teaching model such as: Social communication skills, Collaboration skills, Critical thinking skills. Those skills seemed appropriate for the total of 10 student participants of Business Administration school.

They were actively involved in the discussions and other tasks, driven by the teacher’s guiding questions, and supported by the teacher and other students when they have presented the outcomes of their group discussions (positive exchange between students and the teacher at 04:59). The video showed adequate level of the students’ involvement throughout the activities, so the students had opportunities to share and engage in the learning dialogues.  

Outi Sutinen as a senior lecturer provided very positive feedback to Yanhong (09:00). She stated Yanhong’s strengths as following:

      ·        The class was well structured, logical and brought international atmosphere

      ·        Activating the students to involve the discussions and tasks against their Finnish shy nature

      ·        The students gained a lot valuable and enriching knowledge and skills

My suggestions for the improvement needed areas would be:

      ·        Plan for classroom design more suitable for group discussion activities

      ·        More encouragement for students to express their opinions and group work outcomes using their various learning styles

      ·        Plan for a time slot to ask students what they have learned at warp-up