Colin_CO_#2

For my 2nd classroom observation, I observed a group 1 composition class. During this class I noticed that the teacher spoke very slow and clear. She even asked what words meant while she was speaking to students, instead of telling students what more difficult words meant. The first activity the students had to do was making sentences into questions. For example, the sentence would read "He is happy" and the students would change it to "Is he happy?". During this time I noticed that some students were capitalizing the wrong words and forgetting to put question marks. I also noticed that some students had problems writing the letters to form words. This was my first experience with lower level students learning english. The next activity they had was to write 5 questions using To Be and Do/Does. After this activity they changed more difficult sentences into questions. The teacher then wrote some of the students sentences on the board, but she purposely wrote them incorrectly so that the students would correct her. The last activity the students had to do was to make sentences based on pictures. They then made these sentences into questions. Overall, I learned that when working with lower level students you have to slow your rate of speech down and choose lower level words, so that the class can understand.