Breanna CO #2

Date/Time: 5/3/16

Topic/Skill: Grammar/ Present Perfect

Teacher Presentation: Andrew Wilson

Teacher Presentation: The instructor was organized and kept everything at a great pace. His speech rate and word choice was perfect for the group of foundation level students. There was an excellent balance of games, activities involving staying in their seats, getting up and moving around, worksheets, a lecture-style activity from the projector, and class discussion. The instructor made use of the TA’s and observers in the room and made sure each student had a native speaker to work with, so every student had individualized attention.

Classroom Management: The instructor tried to encourage a difficult student to participate a little more by explaining to him why what they were learning was important. Other than that, he kept his classroom very well managed.

Materials: post-it notes, projector, overhead, vocabulary worksheet, worksheet with three girls on it.

Student Participation: The students were actively participating in the scavenger-hunt activity. The instructor told students to hide a post-it note somewhere in the building, then write the instructions down on a piece of paper so he could find the post-in note. Additionally, the students worked individually with a native speaker when completing a worksheet designed to find the differences between three women.

Feedback Provided: The instructor corrected students when they missed certain components of their sentence structure. For example, a student asked, “What means stocky?” The instructor replied, “does” and the student then said, “Ah, what does stocky mean?” It was clear this was a repeated error for the student, so the instructor did not need to explain why this was a mistake, but simply point it out.

Lesson(s) on teaching you learned: At the end of class, it seemed to me that the instructor ran out of material for the day, so he decided to play a snap, clapping, number game. The game could still be useful because the students are still using English words, communicating, using eye contact, counting in English, and having to think quickly. It made me realize that teachers need to always have a back up plan. This little game was a fun, relaxing way to end their long class period full of new information. The game is still beneficial, so it is a good thing to have on hand.