Melannie CO #2

Class Observation 


On Monday, I had gone to my second class observation. This class was being instructed by Ryan Flemming, who was teaching on speaking for students in level 3A. I enjoyed the way Ryan spoke to his students, he spoke slowly and clear as well as repeated himself or asked the students. Ryan had to go over the syllabus with his students again since they did not have it with them, after every selection in the syllabus Ryan would ask "do/did you understand this?" and everyone would nod their head yes. Only twice did a student ask the teacher to go over that selection or rule or objective one more time. There was this one student in this class that during the syllabus and the class activity, he would repeat any new word or a word he does not know how to say properly out loud after Ryan had said it. To get his students to speak, Ryan had an activity where there will be a list of three words or phrases, in which, the students must pick one of them. After the students pick which one they, themselves and not as a group, wanted to write notes one then the students had to write two reasons and two examples for each reason. For example, "when looking for a roommate, this is the most important quality: 1) cleanness, 2) friendliness, 3) quietness". The students pick in their opinion which one they wanted. Most picked friendliness and then they had to provide two reasons why friendliness is the best one. They first had to tell their partner what they picked and the two reasons while Ryan walked around the room making any incorrect grammar or pronunciation in their speech. 

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