Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Will TS #16
12/21
Skype
Feedback: Well it was our last session. I was sad. But more importantly I couldn't believe that Dojun never told me he was Prof. Kim's brother! We talked about how he had obfuscated the truth from me for a while. Then we went on to talk about how I might apply to the epic program and how we'd have to hang out when I come through Korea.
Will TS #15
12/19
PJ's house.
Feedback: It's PJ's birthday! I was also really tired after having a party the night before. We started reading a passage that was about water. I never knew water was so interesting. Well I did know but I didn't know how snow worked. We watched a few science videos that helped explain the reading and then we finished up since PJ was too amped for his party.
Will TS #14
Date: 12/14
Skype
Feedback: Dojun came on the line this time and we caught up. He told me about his work week and I told him that he needs to take a vacation. I think the culture in Korea is working these folks to death. Then we went on and I told him a little bit about what was going on in my life and how it's going to be my birthday soon. It was definitely a good session.
Will TS #13
12/12
PJ's house
Feedback: Well it was another math session. It was once again tough for me not because the math was hard but the new way they teach the math is different than the way I learned it. We did a few regular problems then we went on to some cool word problems. I think PJ just likes doing math more than his reading book which I understand since some of those stories aren't very interesting. We then went over some social studies which was basically on the history of the conquistadors when they traveled through Florida.
Will TS #12
12/4
Place: Skype
Feedback: Well it was another good session with Dojun today. We talked a little about K pop of course which was cool. We also got into a little bit of a conversation on life in Korea. We also talked about travel and how I'd like to visit Thailand. We also talked a little bit about drinking culture in Korea which was interesting I'd like to try the Soju stuff soon.
Victoria Gilbertson TS#16
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Date/Time: 12/21/2015
Location: P.J.’s house
Topic/Skill: Superheroes
Feedback:
For our last session, P.J. and I read from his favorite book about superheroes. We read one about IronMan and one about Captain America. We also read a book that Frankie gave him. The section that P.J. chose was about Aircrafts. P.J. preferred the book about superheroes. He didn’t quite understand the concept that superheroes powers are not real. I had to explain this to him. Both books were intensive reading books. Letting him choose the stories helped to motivate P.J. intrinsically. I think that he was happy with the lesson.
Victoria Gilbertson TS#15
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Date/Time: 12/19/2015
Location: Skype
Topic/Skill: Christmas and New Years
Feedback:
For our last session, DoJun and I discussed the differences between Christmas and New Years. I learned that in South Korea, they have a second New Years called the Lunar New Years. It is during this event that the families typically get together and have a large dinner and enjoy each other’s company – similar to the American Christmas. In South Korea, Christmas is a relationship event. It is typically only celebrated by couples. When I asked what DoJun was going to do with his girlfriend, he told me he hadn’t come up with anything yet. I gave him advice on how to make it romantic. He laughed.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Victoria Gilbertson - CO#3
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Date/ Time: 12/16/2015
Topic/ Skill: Affixes and Context Clues
Teacher Presentation: Felicia's G2 Reading Class
Classroom Management: She uses positive reinforcement. When she needs to emphasize something she raises her voice. When multiple students want to answer at the same time, she has everyone in the class answer one at a time. This gives the students opportunity and attention.
Materials: Reading with comprehension questions in the first 15-20 seconds of film. She utilizes the textbook and the board a lot.
Student Participation: Pair work and pair discussion. Group discussion based on open-ended questions. She makes every student answer.
Feedback Provided: Positive Reinforcement. She helps during pair work when needed. She always explains new words and repeats correct answers for reinforcement.
Lesson(s) on teaching you learned: Using slower speech and diction helps lower levels. She makes sure to pronounce every word in an articulate manner.
The teachers do not allow the students to not participate. There is not enough 'free time' for them to slack off. They make sure that every student is participating and truly understands the lesson.
Something that I appreciated from Felicia's class is that you can tell she really wants her students to understand the material and makes every effort to ensure they do.
Date/ Time: 12/16/2015
Topic/ Skill: Affixes and Context Clues
Teacher Presentation: Felicia's G2 Reading Class
Classroom Management: She uses positive reinforcement. When she needs to emphasize something she raises her voice. When multiple students want to answer at the same time, she has everyone in the class answer one at a time. This gives the students opportunity and attention.
Materials: Reading with comprehension questions in the first 15-20 seconds of film. She utilizes the textbook and the board a lot.
Student Participation: Pair work and pair discussion. Group discussion based on open-ended questions. She makes every student answer.
Feedback Provided: Positive Reinforcement. She helps during pair work when needed. She always explains new words and repeats correct answers for reinforcement.
Lesson(s) on teaching you learned: Using slower speech and diction helps lower levels. She makes sure to pronounce every word in an articulate manner.
The teachers do not allow the students to not participate. There is not enough 'free time' for them to slack off. They make sure that every student is participating and truly understands the lesson.
Something that I appreciated from Felicia's class is that you can tell she really wants her students to understand the material and makes every effort to ensure they do.
Mary Phillips TS #16
Date/time: Thursday, December 17, 2015, 1:30-2:30
Location: Public library
Topic/skill: Listening, articles
Feedback provided to tutee: This session we practiced listening skills. More specifically we practiced recognizing articles. My tutee suggested it as she has some trouble hearing articles. I would read a sentence from a news article or one of Aesop's fables and she would repeat all the articles she heard. At first we were using news articles but there was too many obscure legal/business terms so we switched to fables. (Although the fables had a number of antiquated words and grammar structures) Usually, if my tutee didn't recognize all the articles I just repeated the sentence slower or with more emphasis on the articles.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Luckily, my tutee is very good of being cognizant of which areas she needs more practice with. It is very easy to ignore articles when listening because, often enough, ignoring the articles doesn't seriously interfere with comprehending the speech. Also, the Aesop's fables made for better listening material because there weren't so many confusing proper nouns or background information required to understand the story.
Location: Public library
Topic/skill: Listening, articles
Feedback provided to tutee: This session we practiced listening skills. More specifically we practiced recognizing articles. My tutee suggested it as she has some trouble hearing articles. I would read a sentence from a news article or one of Aesop's fables and she would repeat all the articles she heard. At first we were using news articles but there was too many obscure legal/business terms so we switched to fables. (Although the fables had a number of antiquated words and grammar structures) Usually, if my tutee didn't recognize all the articles I just repeated the sentence slower or with more emphasis on the articles.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Luckily, my tutee is very good of being cognizant of which areas she needs more practice with. It is very easy to ignore articles when listening because, often enough, ignoring the articles doesn't seriously interfere with comprehending the speech. Also, the Aesop's fables made for better listening material because there weren't so many confusing proper nouns or background information required to understand the story.
Mary Phillips TS #15
Date/time: Wednesday, December 16, 2015, 1:30-2:30
Location: Public library
Topic/skill: Speaking, grammar (idioms, adverbs)
Feedback provided to tutee: I introduced a few words that were new to my tutee so I usually explained the definition and gave a few sentences. I introduced some terms that I think were a little too "low-frequency" but I was able to explain them well enough.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Once again I owe a lot to the internet. The ability to search images and provide visual examples to unknown vocabulary immediately really enhances the tutoring. However, when I search for pre-made questions for speaking activities, I find that many of them are not very good. They're very awkwardly worded or repetitive. I usually end up using the pre-made activities as a guideline more than an exact lesson plan to follow.
Location: Public library
Topic/skill: Speaking, grammar (idioms, adverbs)
Feedback provided to tutee: I introduced a few words that were new to my tutee so I usually explained the definition and gave a few sentences. I introduced some terms that I think were a little too "low-frequency" but I was able to explain them well enough.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Once again I owe a lot to the internet. The ability to search images and provide visual examples to unknown vocabulary immediately really enhances the tutoring. However, when I search for pre-made questions for speaking activities, I find that many of them are not very good. They're very awkwardly worded or repetitive. I usually end up using the pre-made activities as a guideline more than an exact lesson plan to follow.
Rebekka Flam TS#16
Date/Time: 12/17/15 1:00-2:00 pm
Location: Astin's house
Topic/Skill: Speaking
Feedback provided to tutee: Today was my last session with Astin. I've had a lot of fun working with him these past few weeks. I developed a short speaking lesson using balloon animals. I shaped different animals and we created characters and stories for each one. It was a good way to practice creativity and vocabulary in context.
Lessons about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I've learned a lot these past few weeks. I really enjoy working with children, despite the difficulties that may arise. I learned how to modify my speech rate and use high-frequency vocabulary with lower-level students. Overall, I learned that I really enjoy teaching and I hope to find a position in Turkey or South Korea!
Location: Astin's house
Topic/Skill: Speaking
Feedback provided to tutee: Today was my last session with Astin. I've had a lot of fun working with him these past few weeks. I developed a short speaking lesson using balloon animals. I shaped different animals and we created characters and stories for each one. It was a good way to practice creativity and vocabulary in context.
Lessons about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I've learned a lot these past few weeks. I really enjoy working with children, despite the difficulties that may arise. I learned how to modify my speech rate and use high-frequency vocabulary with lower-level students. Overall, I learned that I really enjoy teaching and I hope to find a position in Turkey or South Korea!
Will CP #6
Place: Grasslands again
Tae Yuen came out to trivia to help Nicole and I try and win the pot. He also brought his friend who was in town to give a presentation on urban planning at FSU. He wasn't too useful in the actual trivia round since he really doesn't have the same background knowledge in american pop culture so we just mostly hung out.
After trivia we had a good time talking and I learned a little bit more about the differences between Korean, Japanese, and American culture. Especially when it comes to dating.
Will CO #3
Topic: Speaking
Teacher Presentation: Angel started with an explanation of debates and debate process that they had worked on earlier.
Classroom management: Then they broke into groups and were given topics to debate. They debated the topics and Angel walked around and collected their mistakes.
Materials: Whiteboard, Cellphone to write down mistakes
Student Participation: The students were in groups and had lively conversations with each other.
Feedback provided: At the end Angel went over the students various beautiful mistakes.
Lessons on teaching you learned: It was very well done class the students were able to do a lot of speaking and the topics were current and interesting.
Will CP #5
Location: Grasslands Brewery.
We mostly talked about why Tae Yuen came to CIES. We hung out on the patio of Grasslands and he told me about his career as a journalist in Korea. He was on a sabbatical for just a few weeks and is going back in December. We then went over to the whiskey bar and he introduced me to Japanese whiskey which was very scotch like.
Victoria Gilbertson - TS# 14
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Date/Time: 12/17/2015
Location: P.J.’s House
Topic/Skill: Swimming and Luisa Stories
Feedback:
For this session, I had P.J. choose which story he wanted to read. As he doesn’t care for the textbook, I figured this was the best way to boost his motivation. After each page, I had P.J. give me, in his own words, a summary of what he just read. We went over the vocabulary words that were highlighted on each page. At the end of the reading I asked P.J. for a summary of the entire story. I let him look at the pictures on each page to help remind him of what happened. I asked a lot of prompting questions as well. These tools seemed to help him find the answers he needed. He really understood the story this time and we made it through it rather quickly. Since there was still time left, we read a short story. This really intrigued him because the story was about swimming. In the middle of the reading he asked me questions about how to float. We finished reading the story after that and he also gave me a summary to show that he understood what he read. Taking a break in the middle shows me that if he can find a connection and take a break in the middle he does a lot better and doesn’t find the activity as agonizing as he usually does.
Victoria Gilbertson-CO #2
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Date/Time: 12/16/2015
Topic/Skill: Composition
Teacher Presentation: Cause and Effect – Ryan’s G4 Composition Class
Classroom Management: Mainly he just kept the class on topic by refocusing their attention on the task at hand. When one of the students was talking when he wasn’t supposed to he made him answer the question the boy interrupted.
Materials: Textbook, Projector
Student Participation: Group work to determine their cause and effect topics. Student explanation of vocabulary.
Feedback Provided: Helping to find correct vocabulary and he helped guide the essay direction. Walking around and correcting errors.
Lesson(s) on teaching you learned: Telling students the next days tasks helps to introduce topics. Give them the tools to come up with the answer – don’t just give them the answer.
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Will CP #4
Location: CIES
Topics Discussed: It was an interesting event at the CIES since it was the Xmas party. I went to see a few people and it was quite interesting. We mostly talked about the fight that we watched earlier last week in which Ronda Rousey got knocked out I also ran into Tae Yuen and talked to him about the Kimchee balls that were there.
Cultural Topics: We mostly were interested in the food that was brought for the potluck. The Kimchee balls were kind of amazing.
Rebekka Flam TS#15
Date/Time: 12/16/15 3:30-4:30 pm
Location: Astin's house
Topic/Skill: Writing, Reading, and Speaking
Feedback provided to tutee: Today I helped Astin with his homework. He practiced writing and tracing letters. I (again) helped Astin differentiate between lower-case and upper-case letters. We also practiced numbers and counting out loud.
Lessons about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Astin had a lot of energy and I learned to be patient but also more strict. I tend to be a bit passive (I don't like conflict), but I can see that it is important to be firm and professional as a teacher.
Location: Astin's house
Topic/Skill: Writing, Reading, and Speaking
Feedback provided to tutee: Today I helped Astin with his homework. He practiced writing and tracing letters. I (again) helped Astin differentiate between lower-case and upper-case letters. We also practiced numbers and counting out loud.
Lessons about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Astin had a lot of energy and I learned to be patient but also more strict. I tend to be a bit passive (I don't like conflict), but I can see that it is important to be firm and professional as a teacher.
Victoria Gilbertson - CO #1
Date: 12/16
Topic: Grammar/ 3 types of questions
Teacher Presentation: Vicki's G1 Grammar
Classroom Management: Vicki uses the Agenda to bring the classes attention back to the topic. She uses verbal correction if something happens she doesn't like. For example: a student spoke out of turn and so she applauded the correct answer but then said "Let's let the other students answer the question - it's their turn".
Materials: The test that was given the last class and the textbook. She also utilized the board.
Student Participation: The students answered open- ended questions when called on. Pair work was also involved.
Feedback Provided: She was very positive during any corrections. The format was find something good and then correct.
She corrected vocabulary a lot but also walks around and helps students with the activities.
Lesson(s) on teaching you learned: An agenda is very helpful and can help organize the class. When speaking she used simple vocabulary and slowed her speech. Any time a new word is introduced you should repeat it a couple of times and use it in a sentence and possibly draw a picture. This gives the first 3-4 times that they need to hear a word before it sinks in (7 times).
Topic: Grammar/ 3 types of questions
Teacher Presentation: Vicki's G1 Grammar
Classroom Management: Vicki uses the Agenda to bring the classes attention back to the topic. She uses verbal correction if something happens she doesn't like. For example: a student spoke out of turn and so she applauded the correct answer but then said "Let's let the other students answer the question - it's their turn".
Materials: The test that was given the last class and the textbook. She also utilized the board.
Student Participation: The students answered open- ended questions when called on. Pair work was also involved.
Feedback Provided: She was very positive during any corrections. The format was find something good and then correct.
She corrected vocabulary a lot but also walks around and helps students with the activities.
Lesson(s) on teaching you learned: An agenda is very helpful and can help organize the class. When speaking she used simple vocabulary and slowed her speech. Any time a new word is introduced you should repeat it a couple of times and use it in a sentence and possibly draw a picture. This gives the first 3-4 times that they need to hear a word before it sinks in (7 times).
Lauren Gibson TS#16
Tutee: Young-Seo 8
Date/Time: Saturday, 12 December @ 12PM
Location: North-East Library
Topic/Skill: Writing
Feedback provided to tutee: Since Young-Seo was leaving in a week, I decided to focus on her writing about what she would do when she returned home.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned that when giving a writing prompt to a young child, I should provide sample introductory sentences for her to use, such as, "I can't wait to..../ The person I am most excited to see is... because...". Initially, Young-Seo only wrote about one sentence so I encouraged her to write more by giving her more ideas and asking more questions about Korea.
Date/Time: Saturday, 12 December @ 12PM
Location: North-East Library
Topic/Skill: Writing
Feedback provided to tutee: Since Young-Seo was leaving in a week, I decided to focus on her writing about what she would do when she returned home.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned that when giving a writing prompt to a young child, I should provide sample introductory sentences for her to use, such as, "I can't wait to..../ The person I am most excited to see is... because...". Initially, Young-Seo only wrote about one sentence so I encouraged her to write more by giving her more ideas and asking more questions about Korea.
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