Joseph Bayliss CO#2

Today, June 26th, I observed Dr. Derrick Pollock's speaking class for Group 3B. Dr. Pollock began the lesson with an activity by the name of Hot Seat, in which he would select a student and have them talk about a randomly assigned topic for forty-five seconds. From what I could gather, this activity is designed to train quick and accurate speech in the face of a looming time limit. Some of the topics the student discussed ranged from technology to bullying to general life experiences. Following a student's forty-five second presentation of the topic, Dr. Pollock would point out every mistake made by the student and urge them to make the necessary corrections on their own. If the students were unable to do this, then Dr. Pollock would explain the mistake in detail and provide the correction. After the fifteen-or-so minutes that this activity took, the class broke off into individual work time, wherein the students got to make some progress on a presentation that they had been assigned. According to Dr. Pollock, this presentation requires the students to provide English descriptions and analyses of songs that describe their past, present, and future. This struck me as a great way to instill intrinsic motivation in the students. All in all, Dr. Pollock's class was a joy to spectate.

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