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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.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
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.
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