FSU TEFL 120 Certificate 2024 Summer 2

  Date/Time: June 26th, 2024 Skill/Topic : Group 3 Grammar with Prof. Flemming Classroom management: Level-appropriate speech rate, calling on students to help their peers in case they didn't answer correctly. Materials used: Browser randomizer, dice, browser search engine (for visual aids) Class agenda: Prof. Flemming decided that half of the class time would be spent reviewing for an upcoming quiz. He created a fun review game that utilized a randomizer found from the internet, and a die. Using the material that would be on the quiz, Prof. Flemmings assigned students a number and proceeded to use the randomizer to choose an individual to answer. The quiz material included grammar concepts where students had to use the correct tenses for past, present, and future. For the second half of class, Prof. Flemming reviewed a previously assigned discussion board where students wrote their own experiences with true or false questions to be answered. As a group discussion, he had students...

  Date/Time: June 25th, 2024 Skill/Topic : Speaking with Prof. James Classroom management: Level-appropriate speech rate Materials used: The movie "Stand and Deliver", browser search engine (for visual aids) Class agenda: The class was conducted as a follow-up lesson to a previous class. They first began by discussing a movie that they watched as a group and then took the time to watch videos about the main character in real life. After watching these videos, Prof. James began to gauge comprehension and speaking skills by asking open-ended questions about what the students understood, encouraging conversation amongst them.

Date/Time: June 24th, 2024 Skill/Topic : Group 4 Speaking with Prof. Ciapetta Classroom management: Changed the environment by taking the class to Starbucks (off of Tennesee St.) Encourages a student-centered classroom approach, letting students engage and speak to each other. Materials used: CIES Textbook. Class agenda:  Prof. Ciapetta began the lesson by having the students read a chapter in the textbook about how to start discussions about any topic. After giving ample time to read, Prof. Ciapetta had students break up into pairs to discuss what they read.  Prof. Ciapetta then switched gears in the discussion, applying a cultural aspect to the lesson by talking about American English  communication patterns. 

  Date/Time: June 24th, 2024 Skill/Topic : Group 4, Grammar with Prof. Rios (adjective clauses) Classroom management: Prof. Rios calls on individual students to get participation from more students. Materials used: CIES workbook grammar exercises, whiteboard + markers. Class agenda: Prof. Rios begins the class by addressing a new concept, adjective clauses. He addresses this grammar concept by explaining when you should use relative pronouns (who, whose, whom, etc.). He proceeds to have students do the worksheet fill-in-the-blank activity on their own.  After he does this, he encourages students to create example sentences using those relative pronouns using characteristics of their peers.

Date/Time: June 17th Skill/Topic : Reading with Prof. Flemming Classroom management: Level-appropriate speech rate Materials used: readingworks.org, browser search engine (for visual aids) Class agenda: While addressing the week's agenda in his reading class, Prof. Flemming took the opportunity to teach a mini-lesson on Juneteenth.  Juneteenth was set to happen later that week and he believed it was a good time to inform students by having them read a short article on the national holiday.  He surveyed the class to see if anyone needed help understanding vocabulary then asked comprehension questions to ensure that the students understood the article.  Moving on to his primary lesson, Prof. Flemming had students discuss and choose an article to read from the ReadWorks website.  He provides full linguistic support by reading the article out loud while carrying out actions from the article to aid in comprehension.  At the end of the class, he wraps up the lesson b...

TS Blogs July 13th, Saturday Session #5 with Ricardo at the FSU Rez Topic/Skill: Speaking fluency and listening comprehension in an informal setting. Feedback provided to the tutee: Ricardo and I went to the FSU Rez with a few of my friends and I introduced him to more FSU students while we were there. I passively monitored Ricardo's speech and provided feedback when he repeatedly made errors. I tried to let Ricardo speak with fluency so I rarely intervened, but the little feedback I provided him allowed him to speak with greater correctness. When Ricardo made an error, I would ask him to repeat it to see if he could correct the error himself. This proved helpful for him to understand the true significance of his errors. Lessons: The main lessons we covered were lessons on conjugational differences between the past tenses in English and subject-verb agreement. These were grammar topics that he had struggled with in the past, so increased exposure to his errors and their significanc...

TS Blogs July 11th, Thursday Session #4 with Ricardo at my house. Topic/Skill: Writing an English poem. Feedback provided to the tutee: In our fourth lesson, Ricardo and I worked on an English poem. I provided feedback to Ricardo related to his rhyme scheme and how he could produce meaning through his writing. Poetry doesn't have a defined structure, so I let Ricardo have free reign on his writing, but I would intervene if the writing was;t understandable or coherent. I also taught Ricardo the meaning of an abstraction in poetry (i.e. when writing doesn't have clear meaning. Lastly, I helped Ricardo polish his piece to make his intended meaning develop. Lessons: The main lessons covered in Ricardo and I's session were poetic prose and coherency. The objective of the lesson was to help Ricardo purvey meaning through his poem.