Melannie CO #1

Class Observation 


On Monday, I had attended my first class observation with Dr. Derrick Pollack, who he was teaching a reading course. The students in this reading course are at level 3A. During my observation, I liked how Dr. Derrick wrote down on the whiteboard his agenda for the day. He began the class by having the students pick from two different books to read. The majority had picked "Bridge to Terabithia." After they all picked, Dr. Derrick had gone on to get the rest of the books for his students. A few of them had to share a book, the student that was sitting across from me on the little table again the wall had shared his book with me. At first, I had thought that everyone would read the book aloud; however, that was not the case here. Dr. Derrick had read the book aloud in a clear and slow manner for his students to understand him. I had appreciated how Dr. Derrick would give them another word if it was a word that the students did not understand during the reading. For example, Dr. Derrick had said "increasing/improving" after reading the word "amplifying" because some of the students did not understand what amplifying meant, so he gave them another word that they are familiar with. After reading the part of the book for 10 minutes, the class went into open discussion. I enjoyed how he encouraged the students to speak up, telling them that there is no wrong answer or not making them feel like what they said was dumb. The last activity they did was having the students read a quote and be paired up into groups to discuss their opinion on what the quote meant. 

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