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1. MDD 5 Decisions and Results Analysis
Name: Gerardo Valdivia Zavalla
Task 1. Unit 7: “Collections!”
Describe the modifications you made to the unit plan for the teaching- learning process, explain what led you to make such changes and evaluate the effectiveness of these changes.
l. The main changes made to the plan for putting it into action.
The overall unit plan did not drastic changes, because my guide teacher asked me to use the material I had in the book the students had and not use extra material. So I planned my classes using the activities proposed in the book. However, I used extra material sometimes, but only as a reinforcement of what I was teaching.
The first change was looking for external material not present in the student book for the class, such as different types of activities, listening exercises and more activities about grammar.
The second change was as the students did not remember the past participle and past simple of the irregular verbs correctly, I decided to do a quiz of irregular verbs only, in order to force students to memorize them. This may not be seen as a change but as an addition of material. From my point of view is a change because I had to find a way that students memorized or learnt the irregular verbs and the way I found was to make a quiz.
Those changes, to look for extra material and make a quiz were the changes I did in my unit plan. They were not big changes but they helped me to know how much students were understanding and reinforce the idea of memorizing verbs.
What motivated the changes or, in this case, addition of material was that in the book the activities were limited and also the activities were not so interesting

2. for students. I wanted that the classes seemed a bit fun by showing PPTs, making games, etc.
Moreover, I noticed that students did not remember the past participle of the irregular verbs which is necessary to use the present perfect correctly. I decided to make a quiz about them, so I could force the students to memorize them. I made the quiz with the verbs, I thought, were the most common. Moreover, I noticed that I needed to show the language I was teaching in real context so I did that in a song. “We are the champions” is a great song to teach present perfect and show language in real context.
In my opinion, most of the students participated in the class and in the production of activities. They seemed to understand what I was teaching and they were fond to learn.
According to my judgment, the changes and addition of material had effect on the teaching. For example, when I added extra material, I made students to practice a lot more what I was teaching because I think that the practice is the most important part when acquiring a second language. In the case of the irregular verb quiz, students realized that the past participle was relevant to be learned; what is more, students had to practice the past simple of the irregular verbs in order to know how to differentiate the present perfect and past simple form. “We are the Champions worked well, students knew the song so it was easy for them to understand the ideas presented in the song. They listen to the present perfect in a real piece of listening. The quiz was just a way to check how much they knew about the past participle.
The majority of the students learnt in the class and they show that understanding in the result of the test of the whole unit.

3. Task 2
Analyze, synthesize and communicate the learning outcomes achieved by students.
Evaluation Instrument
Learning Goals
Learning Goals’ levels per students
Accomplished
Achieved Moderately
Failed
6.0 to 7.0
4.0 to 5.9
2.0 to 3.9
Written Test
-To demonstrate understanding of Present Perfect structures.
- To apply for/since in context.
-To differentiate the present perfect from the past simple
-To recognize vocabulary related to collections.
8
14
6
Accomplished
Achieved Moderately
Failed
25 - 17 pts
16-9 pts
8-1 pts
Written Quiz
- To remember factual information (past participle )
20
2
4
-
Accomplished
Achieved Moderately
Failed
12-9 pts
8-5 pts
4-0 pts
Listening quiz
- To demonstrate understanding of ideas in a song.
- To identify the present perfect.
22
4
0

4. Written test of the whole Unit
As the results show in the graphic Achievement level written test, 29% of the students achieved the level accomplished; 50% of the students reached the level achieve moderately; and 21% of students reached the level failed. If we combine the achieved moderately and accomplished level we may say that 79% of the students were able to demonstrate understanding of present perfect structures, to apply for/since in context, to differentiate the present perfect from the past simple and to recognize vocabulary related to collections.
From the result I could say that the students are accustomed to learn grammar rule explicitly. I may infer that the 79% understood what was taught. Also in the 8th grade I have different kind of students, those who have been in the school their whole student’s lives so far and those who are new students in the school. According to the test results the students who have been in the school for many years had better results than those who have not been in the school since early age. This may be because the first group has study better the different verb tense throughout the years and the second group may not have done the same. I arrived to that conclusion because some students complained that they did not understand anything because they did not study X content in X school, or they need more
29%
50%
21%
Achievement Level Written Test
Accomplished
Achieved
Moderately
Failed

5. explanation to understand something their classmate already dominated. Another reason for my conclusion may be demotivation, some student did not believe in themselves so I encourage them to trust in their abilities and they did better in the test, in other task, etc.
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Written Quiz irregular verbs
As the results show in the graphic Achievement level written quiz, 77% of the students obtained from 17 to 25 points; 15% reached the level achieve moderately and obtained from 9 to 16 points; and 8% of students reached the level failed and obtained from 1 to 8 points. I may say that the 92% of the students could remember factual information such as the past simple and past participle). This quiz was only a way to force students to study the past simple and past participles of the irregular verbs.
77%
8%
15%
Achievement Level Written Quiz
Accomplished
Achieved Moderately
Failed

6. Listening Quiz “We are the Champions”
As the results show in the graph Achievement Level Listening Quiz, 85% of the students obtained from 9 to 12 points; 15% reached the level achieve moderately and obtained from 5 to 8 points; and 0% of students reached the level failed and obtained from 0 to 4 points. I may say that the 85% of the students could demonstrate understanding of ideas in a song and identify the present perfect. This quiz was a way to check if students comprehend the present perfect and to show how the language worked in a real context.
85%
15%
0%
Achievemente Level Listening quiz
Accomplished
Achieved Moderately
Failed

7. Task 3
Evaluate the effectiveness of the teaching on learning achievement of all students.
The strengths of my unit plan may be:
Students understanding of what was taught: Colegio Chileno Arabe is a Bilingual school, and some students have been studying English for many years, and I could see that because they understand quickly what was being taught. They could find identify correctly what the teacher explained.
Smoothly pace in the classes: As the classes were interesting students kept working and learning what was taught.
I always used of examples when teaching: when planning I usually think of what I am going to use as an example. To make clear my example when I was teaching “how long and the present perfect” I took a ticket for a concert I attended to into class. They loved that and they understand clearly what to do in the activities.
The weaknesses of my unit plan may be:
Lack of feedback: this has been a problem since I was a high school student. And now as a teacher it keeps being a problem. It is hard to have 28 students and give feedback to each of them. But in the test and in everything they do I write messages trying to give some feedback. That is my way of giving feedback, it might not be the best way but it is something. In this scholar system students are too stressed that they might not even care about the comments I write on their tests, but I keep writing them anyway.
Lack of product in some classes: sometimes the students kept practicing and I did not give the opportunity for them to produce something. I think this is a weakness. In the following units I tried to overcome this weaknesses and I think I succeeded.
How effective was my teaching?
When I assessed the unit “Collections”, the majority of students understood and demonstrated understanding of Present Perfect structures. Almost all the students could apply for/since in context. And almost all students could recognize vocabulary related to collections. This can be seen as effective teaching.

8. Where I think that teaching was not that effective was when student had to differentiate the present perfect from the past simple. It seemed that they were not able to understand phrases related to the past such as “last year, yesterday, etc.”, in my opinion that was the result of a lack of exercising in that matter.
The effectiveness of a quiz is variable. I made the quiz of verbs because, for me, a way to learn verbs is memorizing them (past participle and simple past verbs in this case). This could not be a good strategy of teaching verbs but it worked, after all the practice and the quiz many students did well in that part of the test that evaluated the whole unit.
When students had to choose between since and for they did really well, because I explained really carefully the difference. It seemed that students mastered the use of this prepositions.
As a conclusion, in my opinion the students learnt how to use present perfect in different contexts. I feel that they improved their marks comparing with previous tests. In the coming units I tried to continue in this path and I think it worked.