8 September
On this day, I observed Candace
Warmka’s class. The first thing I noticed is how flawless her rate of speech
is. She creates a welcoming environment in her classroom and the students very
obviously feel comfortable with her. Her main activity was a game of Taboo
basically. The students had to help their team members guess the word and write
it down (without any spelling errors) on the whiteboard by using the
definitions and any synonyms they could think of. She styled it in the form of
a race so the students were very engaged in trying to beat the other team. She
made sure every student was taking part in the activity and she was noting
which words gave students the biggest problems.
During her vocabulary, she selected
words but when she realized one of them was note a very commonly used phrase in
conversational English, she dropped them. She was trying to get the students to
use language that is popular and necessary in both academic and casual use.
When running her classroom, she is
very firm when it comes to time restrictions and dates. And although she is extremely
humorous and keeps her classroom light, her control of the classroom never
falters. This is actually something I’m worried about when becoming a teacher
because I worry that if I try to be fun or engaging with my students, I’ll lose
their attention or they won’t properly grasp the material. It’s very nice to
see someone do both so effortlessly.
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