Erfaan Mahmoodi CO #2

I am reposting this as it didn’t post when I had submitted it a few weeks ago. My second class observation was a Listening class with Dr. Rios. Of the three class observations I had, Rios was my favorite experience for his energy, his welcoming demeanor, and his humor with the class. Rios made the effort to introduce me to the class before getting into his lesson. The way the class was structured was that students brought in a reading from the last session, and were picked to talk about it and summarize it. The teacher made a special effort throughout the whole class to call on students to either answer questions or to do the reading. The main activity was reading an article about the lifespan of stars, a topic I was glad to see covered; it offered something unique and interesting for students to practice with. The way in which new vocabulary was introduced was to have it first covered in the pre-lesson, and then within the main activity have there be pauses when the vocabulary showed up, in-context in the article. There was also a segment where students listened to an audio presentation and had to either do dictocomp or take some form of notes to be able to summarize it. All in all a very impressive class.