Gabriela CO #1

Date/Time: June 23rd at 10:00 am

Topic/Skill: Grammar

Teacher Presentation: Dr. Rios began by reviewing the lesson on separable phrasal verbs that had taken place during the previous class. Using a Microsoft Word document with a list of separable phrasal verbs, their definitions and an example sentence, Dr. Rios assigned each student a verb from the list and asked him/her to share a new example sentence with the class. After this, Dr. Rios began teaching the class about inseparable phrasal verbs. He presented the new verbs to the class and asked students to explain the definition of each word and come up with an example sentence.

Classroom Management: The students remained in the main room for the whole class.

Materials: Zoom and Microsoft Word

Student Participation: Each student was prompted to participate at the beginning of the class by coming up with a new sentence using the separable phrasal verbs. Later in the lesson, the entire class participated as a group in coming up with new definitions and example sentences for inseparable phrasal verbs.

Feedback Provided: Dr. Rios provided immediate feedback during the class, letting students know whether or not their example sentences or definitions were correct. If a student made a mistake, Dr. Rios would explain why the student's answer was incorrect before helping the student modify the sentence or definition. 

Lesson(s) on teaching you learned:

Observing this class was extremely helpful for me in learning how to correct student mistakes without immediately just giving the correct answer. Instead of providing instant corrections, it is a much more effective teaching method to explain why a certain answer is incorrect before giving students the chance to make a correction themselves.