Malyce CO #1

Date/Time: 6/22/20 at 10:00
Topic/Skill: Grammar

Teacher Presentation: 

• Zoom meeting 
• no powerpoint 
• used Google Doc to present beautiful mistakes for students to use in small group and to go over in class 
• used Zoom chat to emphasize some things and to share Google Doc and Hangouts links 

 Classroom Management: 

• no behavioral issues 
• one person was not responding when the teacher asked students to accept invitation to Google Hangouts, so she waited for a bit, and then moved on until student said she was having some issues 

Materials: 

• Zoom 
• phone for Google Hangouts sign up 
• Google Doc 

Student Participation:

• 2 small group sessions (partner work) 
• one activity was to work together in fixing the beautiful mistakes on the shared Google Doc 
• the other activity was to have students share with their partners what they did last summer 
• when students got back from their breakout rooms, the teacher asked them questions about what they discussed 
• they addressed the issues with the beautiful mistakes and corrected them 
• the teacher made sure everyone in the class shared their stories from last summer
• teacher asked, at the end each activity, what the point of that lesson was so as to allow students to connect what they had done with their grammar learning objective 

 Feedback Provided:

• the teacher was very encouraging
• Ex. "very good start" 
• Ex. "I love you effort"

Lesson(s) I learned about teaching:

• repeating instructions, giving them enough time to figure it out and do it, and speaking a bit more slowly can really help students 
• asking students what the point of the lesson was can help them to connect what they did with the learning objective