1/22/2015- 10am
Room 213
Ryan Flemming Composition Class
Group 2B
Today was my first class observation. I joined Ryan Flemming for his composition class with Group 2B. As his students walked into the room before the beginning of class, Ryan wrote the class agenda and journal topic "What are some reasons why people want to lose weight and what is the best way to do it." Once class commenced, he explained the journal topic to the students while using vivid examples of why he would actually want to gain weight. I joined the students in their journal writing to get a feeling of what it was like to be doing a in class assignment like. i must admit, its harder than it looks. Although Ryan told students that their journal assignments were being graded for completeness of their written, most people don't express their feelings impromptu through extensive writing like is required in a journal assignment.
After the students completed their journal writings, Ryan taught the class was a definition essay was and asked the class to start writing a rough draft on a topic of their choice. I liked the way he would walk around the class and make sure students were understand and doing their assignments. When he saw a student struggling, he would ask how he could help and guided them in their topic. He put a lot of emphasis on students developing a good thesis statement for their essay. When students had trouble understanding and finding new English words, he would use a lot of hand gestures and body motions to help them their meanings in sample sentences. In one instance he rubbed the back of his hand down his face while saying the "water" to explain to a student the meaning of the word "sweat." I liked this teaching technique very much and I will surely use it in the future. I liked his class very much and his enthusiasm is contagious. My only feedback is that some students seemed at times more distracted with their phones and talking to each other, but this is inevitable in any class.
After the students completed their journal writings, Ryan taught the class was a definition essay was and asked the class to start writing a rough draft on a topic of their choice. I liked the way he would walk around the class and make sure students were understand and doing their assignments. When he saw a student struggling, he would ask how he could help and guided them in their topic. He put a lot of emphasis on students developing a good thesis statement for their essay. When students had trouble understanding and finding new English words, he would use a lot of hand gestures and body motions to help them their meanings in sample sentences. In one instance he rubbed the back of his hand down his face while saying the "water" to explain to a student the meaning of the word "sweat." I liked this teaching technique very much and I will surely use it in the future. I liked his class very much and his enthusiasm is contagious. My only feedback is that some students seemed at times more distracted with their phones and talking to each other, but this is inevitable in any class.
No comments:
Post a Comment