Tova Ervin - CO#1

Date/Time: Tuesday September 5th 1:00-1:50 pm
Topic/Skill: Speaking
Teacher Presentation: For the pre-activity, the teacher projected a list of "beautiful mistakes" students had previously made and asked the students to talk with partners about how to correct the sentences. After the students had some time on their own, she asked them to tell her how to correct each sentence. Though at first students raised their hands and spoke only when called on, the activity quickly turned into a lively class-wide discussion of each sentence. For the main activity, the teacher asked a short discussion question and allowed the students to talk to their partners again, before calling on each student to briefly tell her their thoughts.
Classroom Management: The students were engaged the whole time, so I didn't see the teacher need to do anything extra to keep the classroom focused.
Materials: Computer, White Board, Projector
Student Participation: The students participated throughout. They were able to freely answer the teacher during both activities. To make sure each student talked, the teacher also called on everyone individually after the main activity.
Feedback Provided: At the beginning of class, the students went over past mistakes, and the teacher also took notes on mistakes during the main activity, presumably to go over next time. During the class, the teacher only gave positive feedback to each student directly.
Lesson(s) on teaching you learned: I'm used to a standard no-electronics rule from my education, but the teacher encouraged the students to Google things during the discussion question activity if they wanted more information. It makes sense to me now that so long as they are using English, the students should use every resource they have, but I was surprised at first.

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