Andy_CO#2

Listening Group 2C

CO#2

Date/Time: 10/2/14 @2:00

Location: RM 214

Topic/Skill: Writing

Teacher Presentation: Ryan Flemming

Classroom Management: 

Ryan's class was structured very well and before I knew it our hour was up. He had the agenda on the side board and this particular thursday we were working on: "Transcriptions, Paraphrasing and Summarizing". The first activity was a dictation exercise where the students wrote down exactly what was being said. This was done by the teacher's assistant and she spoke slowly and very clearly so everyone could understand her. She repeated each line 3 or 4 times so the students could write down each word. Repetition was very important in this exercise.

Next we took a class poll: "was this too much work or not?" An interesting moment in the class because this was a good way to assess how well the class thought they were doing individually and an opportunity for Ryan to be a little "cooler" or more caring in his students eyes, but just asking the question.

After that, we watched a video called "Truckers Knot" and the class got into pairs and answered detailed questions, paraphrasing the video. Then still in pairs, they wrote down a summary the video and turned it in, for feedback.

Ryan closed the class by explaining again what paraphrase, summarize and transcribe were. 

Materials: Student books

Student Participation: Yes

Feedback Provided: Yes, had students hand in 3 assignments for feedback.

Lesson(s) on teaching you learned: 

Dictation exercise, behaviorism-repetition until habit forums