I observed Vicky's class. Now I understand why all the students like her! She has a lot of enthusiasm and a very pleasant demeanor. She's the opposite of threatening and intimidating. She wrote the agenda for the day on the board. The students did teacher evaluations and since they were online she led some students downstairs to the lab to fill them out more easily.
The students had presentations today. The first one was by a student named Dalal I believe. It was about Saudi Arabian weddings. In Saudi Arabia the weddings are very lavish. I'd love to see one. Vicky showed me the grading rubric she had for presentations. It graded on grammar and pronunciation, topic development and organization, delivery (clarity, voice level, speed), connection to the audience (eye contact, enthusiasm), and visual aids.
The second presentation was by a student from Brazil. He talked about the World Youth Meeting, where he saw Pope Francis. Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians came to this. He had subject/verb agreement issues and did not include articles in some places.
The third presenter was one of my tutees. She is from Taiwan and speaks Mandarin. I found her to be the most difficult to understand. Her sentences were choppy and sounded unorganized. I think it may be that her language forms sentences in a very distinct way. I am interested to figure out what exactly it is about Mandarin that makes English a little more difficult.
The final presentation was over Arabic coffee. We had dates and coffee. It was very nice. Vicky mentioned that she loves seeing the progress they all have made in the class and she was glad that she could understand everybody. She seems like a great teacher.
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