Kayla CO #2

Date/Time: September 8, 2016/2:00 pm - 2:55 pm
Topic/Skill: Listening/Group 4A/Note-Taking
Teacher Presentation: Ryan Flemming

Ryan began class with a vocabulary quiz: matching with definition and fill-in the blank of example sentences.  Before the quiz began, he gave the students an opportunity to ask questions about the quiz.  The quiz was originally supposed to be six minutes, but he added two extra minutes since majority of the students were struggling.  Some of the words included were [].  Once the vocab quiz was collected, he let the students talk about the quiz among each other for about two minutes.  Then he transitioned into the lesson: note-taking.  Apparently the students wanted to learn how to take better notes, so he based the whole lesson on this skill.  Students listened to three, two minute short lectures on American culture/history: family household changing, men.women roles changing, and teaching math.  For the first lecture, he provided some guidance on note taking: where to start listening carefully, and questions (why?) to answer for the notes.  After the first one, they were on their own.  Ryan replayed each lecture twice, but in between the replays, he would give a hint to help them.  After each lecture, students will compare notes.  At the end of the three activities, Ryan provided the "answer key" for the notes and what type of information it should have.

Classroom Management:

I loved Ryan's voice during the class.  It sounded very uplifting and positive.  He also talked at a slow enough pace for the students to understand but not to make them feel dumb.  He always had a smile on his face.  Getting the classroom focused only took a little bit of time and a little bit of patience.  Overall the class was very respectful, and I feel that the students really took something away for this class.

Materials:

The materials used for this lesson was paper, pen/pencil, markers, whiteboard, vocab quizzes, projector, and audio files.

Student Participation:

If I had to rate the the students' participation on a scale from 1-10, I'd rate it a 9.  There were a few times where I saw students distracted by their phones.  All of the students participated in the partner activities.  They didn't really ask any questions.

Feedback Provided:

Ryan provided feedback on the  students' notes.  If they were good he would praise them.  If they needed some extra attention, he would ask them questions trying to guide them to the right methods/answers.

Lesson(s) on teaching you learned:

I noticed that it is really important to be mindful of the pace and tone of your voice.  It is important to keep a positive, encouraging, and uplifting tone while not speaking too fast or too slow.  Students need time to process words and actually comprehend them.