I attended Ms. Candace Walters's class on grammar for level one students. I was inspired to teach just like Ms. Candace because she was friendly with all her students, and made the atmosphere in comfortable for her students. Before she started class, she wrote a schedule on the board on what they would do. She then asked everyone what time they went to sleep, and made a simple conversation to get everyone to open up and get involved. After that she went over a quick review on the lesson they worked on yesterday with a small activity by handing out whiteboards to write a simple present, and present continuous with a verb. I noticed that she walked around the classroom to help them with anything, or just to correct their mistakes. After she decided to show the class a video that involved subject, objective, possessive, possessive adjective pronouns with the song "My girl," and handed out lyrics so that the students could fill in. Everyone really enjoyed the song, and liked filling in the blanks. Finally at the end she made them do an activity by themselves, had them hand it in at the end.
I really enjoyed her class, and I learned a lot by just observing. I look forward to my next class observation.
Alexandria, I think the two of us had similar (helpful!) class observation experiences. It's interesting to be that the teacher you observed incorporated a popular song into her lesson plan. This seems like a brilliant thing to do, especially if it is followed by an individual activity which some students can find difficult or boring. Both are necessary lessons, and they blend well together. I hope you had a good time and that both of us can continue to learn from such observations in the future.
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