Isik CO # 1

Class Observation #1

Date/Time: March 4, 2016/ 10:50 a.m.-12:30 p.m./CIES /4A Speaking Class

Topic/Skill: What are you good at? What is your passion to do? / Student presentation for five minutes

Teacher Presentation: The beginning of the class, students had been setting up their presentation on the class computer. The teacher was very approachable and positive which is effective for speaking classes.  The teacher also has been teaching this class very long time. Students have known him very well.

Classroom Management: Twelve classmates have seemed knowing each other very long time. They were very outspoken each other. Instructor, Angle Rios was very friendly with them. I liked his approach on the attendance. He called students, name with asking the question about what they do during the spring break.

Student participation: Students presented their passions back to back for five minutes. During the presentations some students asked questions to presenter about their passion. Presentations topics were baking, operation room, branding, sport brand; Nike, sports shoes; Sneakers, cafe, nature, golf, teaching, travel, airplanes, parks in Tallahassee, Iphone.

Feedback provided: Instructor gave feedbacks on the blackboard. He took notes consistently on the computer during the presentations without interruption.

Lesson(s) on teaching you learned: For A4 level speaking class, I will create speaking orientated projects. They will be presentations, discussion groups, and debates.

Isik TS # 2 with Mitchell Hudson

Tutoring Section 2 with Mitchell Hudson

Date/Time: March 15, 2016/ 10:50 a.m.-11:50 a.m.

Location: CIES

Topic/Skill: Formal writing rules in English/ paragraph correction.

Feedback provided to tutee: I practiced three paragraph corrections. I have learned the difference between it’s (it is), and “its” which is possessive. Period should be before quotation mark. I have leaned the expression of “more in-depth look something.” The word “investigation” takes “of” as a proposition. To occur is time related verb which takes “whenever” instead of “whatever.” Demise means ‘death.” “The demise of a relative” is a passive voice. “A relative’s demise” is active voice.

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Formal writing rules in English are very straight forward and important. I shouldn’t start the sentence with pronoun or conjunction. Another words, I shouldn’t put “and” or “because” at the beginning of the sentences. I shouldn’t write “don’t.’ I should write like “do not” or “should not” in the formal writing. I should avoid starting writing in first person.  I should not use symbols. I should not use passive voice. 

Isik TS #1 with Mitchell Hudson

Tutoring Section 1 with Mitchell Hudson

Date/Time: March 4, 2016/ 12:30p.m.-1:30p.m.

Location: CIES

Topic/Skill: Speaking and Writing in English

Feedback provided to tutee: Mitchell asked me questions for my tutoring assessment. While I was answering to them, I realized writing sentences and reading them were beneficial to my speaking skill. I wrote couple paragraphs in English. He read them and explained me my grammar mistakes. We worked on modal verbs such as would, could, should, can, can’t and preposition related description such as “cup of coffee” and “glass of water.”

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: When I write I should be aware of run-on sentences. I should divide them and keep them short for a correct grammar in use.  I should write and use complete sentences for active verbs such as ‘put it on store”, “set to medium heat.”

During the first tutoring section, I learned the meaning of “cup” as a measurement. Mitchell also learned the other meaning of ‘cohort” which is to be a colleague in the program or the project. 

Wonmi CP #4

29 March 2016

I got a message this morning from Abdullah, asking if I could meet him for lunch at Dunkin Donuts! I was thrilled to have received his message, and met up!

The Dunkin Donuts was very busy, but managed to find a seat and talked about our weeks. We couldn't meet up last week due to both of us being busy, so we had a lot to catch up on.

We discussed doctor appointments, since I just finished with one. He had a dentist appointment the next day, and he told me about his struggles with it. Apparently, it took him a few months to get to this point. We also talked about how close it was till school ending, just a few weeks left!

He will be staying for one more semester, and then leaving back for Saudi Arabia. We also discussed the possibilities of maybe meeting in South Korea, since his company sometimes goes there for business trips!

We will meet sometime next week again.

Wonmi TS #3 Adult

26 March 2016

I met up with Sanghoon at Starbucks. We went over his pronunciation first, talking about his difficulty with words ending with -ts. For example, results. We also went over some minimal pairs that Koreans usually have difficulty with, like r/l, p/f, and so on. He did not have a problem when he was focused on the pronunciation; however, when he was doing his presentation, he made mistakes especially with p/f and s/sh. I will try to find an activity that will help him with this.

Next, we went over his presentation. He improved a lot from last time. The grammar was much better, with a few errors that we tried to correct. Also, his intonation of sentences had incredibly improved. So much that I didn't even have to try to listen to him. It just could be heard!

I am writing this after he found out his grade, and received an 18/20, the best he's had so far! We will meet next week to continue his presentation help and tutoring!

Wonmi TS #5 Child

26 March 2016

Today, I met up with P.J again.

Going over what we did last time, we went over the food web again. It was about consumers and producers, carnivore and herbivore, and so on. It was a continuation of the previous classes. The reason why I spent three classes on this topic was due to his constant mistakes between the words and vocabulary especially with mammal, reptile, amphibian, carnivore, omnivore, and herbivore.

We did some fun activities to lower his filter and hopefully give him some more intrinsic motivation. The first game was to guess if the animal was a mammal, reptile, amphibian, insect, or a bird. After he finished the game, I gave each animal a description of what it ate. He then would tell me if the animal was a carnivore, omnivore, or herbivore.

After today's lesson, I saw that he understood the concepts well and learned the vocabulary. He got 90% of the answers right, and therefore I determined that he was fit to move on from this lesson!

Wonmi TS #6 Child

28 March 2016

Today was a very sad day for P. J., due to the passing of his guinea pig. I could tell he was in a bit of a slump. Luckily, I had an experiment prepared today so I hope he enjoyed it!

The lesson today was to go over the Scientific Experimental Process, starting with the prediction/hypothesis, then with the methods and materials, the results, and his conclusion.

The experiment that we did was about old, rusted pennies in vinegar and salt! I had him write his predictions down, and then we did the experiment.

He got excited about doing this, and also showed me his own experiment. It was a bag with baking soda and vinegar, where it continued to fill with gas and then pop!