Holly CO #2

    I observed Professor Flemming and his speaking class. The first thing I noticed about the course was that because it was smaller, it allowed the students and the professor to have a stronger relationship, like a friendship. The students responded well to Professor Flemming and Professor Flemming was incredibly responsive when it came to answering questions. Another thing I noticed about Professor Flemming was that when corrected his students, he used different methods: sometimes he would correct the students by asking a pointed question, other times he wrote down the corrections and saved them for class the next day. The course itself, too was interesting: it was a cool experience having the students read a paragraph, the have the professor ask questions, and have the students answer the questions, giving one or two examples as to why they answered as they did. This seems like an excellent idea. Another thing Professor Flemming did was that while he showed his students the paragraph, the topic of interest was interesting. It was something that people would have no problem in talking about. The first question was about Iphones and what aspect of Iphones made them so useful – recording, music, video, etc.