David Kirsch CO #2

I observed Felicia Chiappetta’s (who had another teacher, Meagan, assisting her) speaking class for group 2A on June 26^th. The students were in the process of making a show and tell type of presentation and were currently working on outlines. At the start of class, the teacher handed back their outlines with feedback written on them and had the students work on revisions. During this time, the students were able to talk to each other about their projects in order to both practice their speaking skills and provide each other with feedback. While the students worked, Meagan walked around the room and answered any questions that the students had about their writing. A few students asked about the meanings of idioms that they had learned and wished to use in their presentations. Felicia would continuously respond to students’ requests for assistance with questions of her own in order to get the students to think of the solution themselves. While there was not much instruction on speaking skills directly from the teacher in this lesson, the fact that many of the students chose to make there presentations on things from their home countries resulted in several conversations breaking out, with the students asking each other questions about each other’s cultures in English.