Brianna CO #2

 

Date/Time: June 17th  

Skill/Topic: Listening skills (U.S. Immigration)

Teacher Presentation:  The teacher told the students to work with a partner to answer the textbook discussion questions. The teacher asked the students what they could see in the images provided with the questions, and used hand gestures to underscore her instructions. 

Classroom Management: The teacher gave the students five minutes to discuss the questions with a partner. She asked if they needed extra time and gave them three more minutes. She repeated her questions many times. She asked other students to help answer the question if someone struggled. The teacher sent vocabulary words to the students in their WhatsApp chat, and asked them to discuss those words.

Materials: Textbook, whiteboard, projector, WhatsApp (cell phones).

Student Participation: The students answered the pre-listening discussion questions with a partner. The students answered questions about what was happening in the pictures associated with the topic.

Feedback Provided: The teacher wrote down the students’ definition of ‘partner’ after one of the students asked what it meant. The teacher allowed the students to speak their native language with each other a little bit (if both partners spoke the same language). The teacher corrected verb tense use by emphasizing the phrase that was misspoken. When asked a complex question by one of the students, she clarified what she thought was being asked before answering.

Lesson(s) on teaching you learned: If grammar is not the focus of the exercise, it is not necessary to explain why certain sentences are incorrect, but simply to repeat the sentence in the correct form and have the student say it correctly.

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