I observed Leslie’s class. I
thought she was a wonderful teacher. She utilized body language such as hand
gestures in order to explain directions. She also pronounced her words loudly
and clearly. The beginning of the class was held downstairs in the computer lab;
here she asked her class a handful of questions on what they did in the past.
For example she would ask, “What did you do last night?” Each student had their
own headset and would response with an answer into their microphone. Then she
showed a clip of Mr. Bean without sound and had the students write down four
things they saw. While conducting the quiz she would walk around the room to
make sure everyone was doing all right. Once the quiz was over she had the
students read a few sentences in the microphone to test their speaking skills.
The sentences included
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She scrubbed the floor.
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I glanced at the clock.
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He approached the teacher.
It amused me afterwards a student
asked if he could rest and Leslie’s response was simply NO. Following the lab
we headed back to the classroom, where she reviewed the spelling and pronunciation
of “-ed”. I was surprised of the difficulty of some words the students were
expected to know like the word sought. When the class would be unresponsive to
her questions she would just continue to repeat the question until she was
given a response. With her students she had to be strict. A student’s phone
rang and they asked if they could take the call (I think it was the same
student who asked to rest). She simply response with “that’s fine but you lose
points for this exercise.” He did not end up taking the call.
In my opinion Leslie did a great
job with informing and disciplining her students. Her energy makes the students
engaged in her lessons and also they respect her enough no to act out.
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