Julia CO# 3

Date/Time: 1/14/16; 2 pm
Topic/Skill: Listening/Taking Notes
Teacher Presentation: First, the students had to review their vocabulary homework with a partner and discuss the definitions. The teacher walked around and answered any questions that the students had. Next, the teacher had the students teach her about what the vocabulary words meant. She related the vocabulary words to other words that the students knew. For example, the word was "dairy farm" and she asked, "what is dairy?" and the students answered milk, cheese, yogurt, etc. The teacher then showed the students how to look up phrasal verbs in the dictionary ("eke out"). After this, the students did a listening activity in which they had to take notes. The teacher stressed that the students not write complete sentences and used abbreviations. The written version of the recording was on the projector. After listening to the recording, the students had to answer who, what where, why, and how. The teacher stressed the Cornell method of taking notes (questions on the left, answers on the right).
Classroom Management: The teacher made sure that the class was very discussion based and that the students felt comfortable talking in front of the class. She made sure everyone was included when having to answer questions.
Materials: Projector, internet access, voice recording
Student Participation: The students participated when they had to "teach" the teacher the meanings of the vocabulary words. They also answered questions aloud that corresponded to the listening activity.
Feedback Provided: The teacher provided feedback through out loud discussion as well as while walking around as the students were working in pairs.
Lesson(s) on teaching you learned: As the students' level of English rises it is important that the teacher let the students figure out meanings for themselves while the teacher guides them. The teacher did a great job in explaining how students can look up the meaning of words on their own so that they can be more self-sufficient in their English study.