Isik CO #2

Class Observation #2

Date/Time: March 25, 2016/ 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m./CIES /4B Grammar Class

Topic/Skill: Reducing Adjective and Adverb Clauses / Writing sentences by reducing clauses

Teacher Presentation: Ms. Leslie Wagner told me the topic of the class. She introduced me to the students. I told them I am a student at the TEFL program. The teacher posted the power point to show what they are going to do in the classroom. She introduced to the class the phrasal verb of the day; “take over.” She explained it in the sentences. Students wrote own examples and shared with the class.

Classroom Management: The teacher gave an article to student to read.  The title of the article is “Educational Benefits of Travel.” After the reading, the teacher asked to students adjective and adverb clauses in the article. She told them how to reduce them in the sentences. Last forty minutes, student went to computer lab to record a story.

Student participation: Students went to computer lab for recording practices. They divided into groups. Each group had 2-3 students and three different stories. Each student read and told the story with own words by reducing an adverb clause and used a past tense. After the story telling, group members responded to the student using perfect modals to express regret and draw conclusion.

Feedback provided: Instructor gave feedbacks in every activity and exercises.

Lesson(s) on teaching you learned: For advance level grammar class, inductive approach is very effective. Their reading level was appropriate to speed reading, skimming and directing.