I found that my instructions on the Spongebob game were not very clear to some of the students in the class. I had assumed that everyone in class would understand. In my past experiences there were no problems with how to set up the groups and this time around i took it for granted. This could be very problematic in an ESL setting. Where a teacher needs to look at every aspect for every student to make sure they understand so as not to lose them in the mix. A couple of ways for me to have done this would be to have written the directions down in more detail, maintaining better control of the class and finally making sure that the directions would be understood by all students.
Another aspect our presentation that could use some improvement was the reinforcement to what was already talked about. A summarization of main points of all the perspectives that we discussed instead of ending the presentation abruptly. I do believe that students do learn through repetition so this is an area where I could have improved on and one that i think i am capable of doing.
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A possible solution may be asking your students to explain to you what you want them to do, re. instructions.
Another possibility with regards to reinforcement is ASKING students what they learned. Then, instead of coming up with the summary/conclusion yourself, you could get input from your students.
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