Mitchell CO#1

Classroom Observation Blog

Today I sat in on level 2, English Grammar with teacher Jasmine. Some initial impressions, as it was my first sit in, is that the class size was smaller than expected, about 12 kids were there at the beginning of the class and by the end a few more trickled in. I liked the activity Jasmine started the class with, and think I will incorporate it into my class planning. Jasmine started the class with an exercise where students had to write a small passage about things they do every day (to practice the simple present, which is used with habitual actions). The students wrote their short paragraphs, then shared it with one another, then shared with the class. This exercise was good for getting students to participate, it was also good because then Jasmine took out mistakes she heard and used them in her lesson, she also took out correct things that were said and incorporated those into her explanation. I especially liked how she taught the lesson, where she explained it briefly, but quickly had the students do another exercise where they had to survey each other, some of the brave ones even surveyed me, and asked me about how often I did certain actions, to learn frequency adverbs. After the students did this, Jasmine gave the class feedback about things she liked, to give the students positive motivation, something I have never actually seen a teacher do and I liked it because it seemed to end the class on a positive note.