Erfaan Mahmoodi CO #3

My third and final class observation was with Rebecca Turk and covered grammar. Turk struck me as the most artistic of the three teachers, and was very conversational in her approach with students. Namely, the way she began her grammar lesson was to ask students what they did before coming into class, then segue into asking what kind of breakfasts they each eat. From the statements of the students, some of which she would write on the board, she would then jump into the main activity. This lesson felt hands-on, and she remarked to me that she took a different approach to teaching her English students than the norm. I enjoyed this. Students were immediately engaged with the class, and made to feel comfortable and conversational. When students make mistakes in a sentence, Rebecca would take an approach of going over the sentence with the student to show them the more grammatically correct answer.