A Case of Classroom-Observation in Health-Instruction (Part 1) : A Follow-Up Study in Sub-Categories of OSIA

Abstract

In this report, classroom observation is achieved through the sub-categories of OSIA, focusing on the quantitative instructional evaluation of teaching skills. Analyzing the cases of the sixth grade(A) and freshman of junior high(B), I attended to improve the class by clarifing the interactional-communication processes and feeding them back to the next class. Thus, in class A, 77% of the instruction period was occupied by the teacher participation. Much of them are the information as summary and direct clarification was observed and it seems that the instructor was not able to use skills such as probing, refocusing and corrective feedback. In addition, the average time span of initiation of information was long and that of responses made by learners was short. Reviewing the protocol, the place where the interactional-communication processes actually occurred was located. In class B, 92% of the instruction involves active teacher participation of which 60% is the initiation of information. The study of classroom climate would be suggested to improve this type of classroom instruction.