Date/Time: unknown, viewed online with professor approval
Topic/skill: affixes to improve reading and expand vocabulary
Teacher Presentation: Felicia
Classroom management: helped students understand activity through modeling and abetting student collaboration. Reviewed examples of words with affixes like prepay, undo, etc. from the activity.
Materials: white board and markers, worksheets with new vocabulary words and activities on them.
Student participation: students participated during the small group sessions to explain the topic of the day and complete the accompanying activity. Students also participated in class by working with the teacher to the meaning and types of affixes.
Feedback provided: complimented the student teachers on a lesson well taught during the review of the lesson. Answered questions on difficult or more obtuse words with affixes.
Lessons learned about teaching: repeat, repeat, repeat. Rehearsal is an effective way of driving new information/skills from working memory to long-term memory. Asking questions and asking students to repeat after the teacher is an effective way to do this since things we say to other people are processed twice, once while listening and again while speaking. Complex concepts like context clues should be categorized into smaller units. Such as context clues can be before or after the unknown word and they indicate examples, restatement, or a definition. This kind of presentation while somewhat artificial gives students a schema for understanding which they can flesh out later with more practice.
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