Friday, December 31, 2010

Class Observation #2

I thoroughly enjoyed the class with Ah-Young Kim. She is spunky, which livens up the class. The class I observed was IN-HI Grammar. I really wanted to see as many grammar classes as possible since this was most challenging to me. She greeted every student by name and ask them something personal only she would know b/c she took the time to know them. Ramin brought this up at the beginning and it really does set the foundation for how your students receive you as a teacher. She uses a lot of prompting and incorporates class discussion. She used a an activity where the students got into groups of three, picked a word from a box then had to give clues in a sentence form to the class using adj clauses & pronouns. Adjective Clauses and Relative Pronouns were the topic of the lesson. They had to keep coming up with new sentences until someone from another group got it. This was a great exercise because everyone really got into it, they laughed and shouted out answers, they would help each other. Also keep in mind they were more involved because they were more comfortable with the language than beginners. She made each group pick a name and gave them points for correct answers. Naturally, this really got people revved up. This is a great exercise to keep in mind b/c it's very engaging. She asked a few times for the class to tell her the purpose. The one thing that was a bit difficult was the speed but she got the whole lesson completed in 50 min, so something to consider.

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