Ryan Milejczak CO #2
Date/Time: September 27th 11:00am
Topic/Skill: Reading
Teacher Presentation: Sana began her class by going through an article they had previously taken a comprehension quiz on, doing some review with her students from last class. Sana then moved into her active lesson on note taking methods. The class had previously studied margin and Cornell note taking methods, and now she was introducing a third method, outlining. She then had students take 10 minutes to fill out an outline for themselves based on the article they had previously done the comprehension question on, which was a long article about lightening. While the students were working on that, Sana stepped aside and informed me the articles were meant to be long and covered over multiple classes. This was the third class they had been working on activities related to this specific article. Sana then moved to a short lesson on literary devices. She starts with metaphors, writing examples on the board "he is a shining start" and "the world is a stage", asking students what they think these mean. She then moves to simile, again giving an example and asking students to try and figure out its meaning. She then closes out with onomatopoeia, as the title of the article utilized this particular device. Then, with this knowledge in hand, students were asked to figure out metaphors from the article in pairs. Finally, Sana finished the class out with some vocab from the article: buoyed, peculiar, groundbreaking.
Topic/Skill: Reading
Teacher Presentation: Sana began her class by going through an article they had previously taken a comprehension quiz on, doing some review with her students from last class. Sana then moved into her active lesson on note taking methods. The class had previously studied margin and Cornell note taking methods, and now she was introducing a third method, outlining. She then had students take 10 minutes to fill out an outline for themselves based on the article they had previously done the comprehension question on, which was a long article about lightening. While the students were working on that, Sana stepped aside and informed me the articles were meant to be long and covered over multiple classes. This was the third class they had been working on activities related to this specific article. Sana then moved to a short lesson on literary devices. She starts with metaphors, writing examples on the board "he is a shining start" and "the world is a stage", asking students what they think these mean. She then moves to simile, again giving an example and asking students to try and figure out its meaning. She then closes out with onomatopoeia, as the title of the article utilized this particular device. Then, with this knowledge in hand, students were asked to figure out metaphors from the article in pairs. Finally, Sana finished the class out with some vocab from the article: buoyed, peculiar, groundbreaking.
Classroom Management:
Materials: White board, handouts with article and exercieses
Materials: White board, handouts with article and exercieses
Student Participation: Students were fairly reserved in this class, and needed some coaxing to actually do group work or participate in class discussion.
Feedback Provided: Due in part to the students being reserved, there was a limit to how much feedback Sana provided, but she was always friendly and patient with her students. As a non-native speaker of English, she clearly understands the struggle of language learning firsthand.
Feedback Provided: Due in part to the students being reserved, there was a limit to how much feedback Sana provided, but she was always friendly and patient with her students. As a non-native speaker of English, she clearly understands the struggle of language learning firsthand.
Lesson(s) on teaching you learned: Watching Sana teach showed me the importance of patience with your students, especially when skill level varies between students in the same class. She was happy to cater to her slightly less advanced student, and avoided letting her most advanced students hog class time or be the ones to answer every question.