Ebo Entsuah CO#1

For my first Classroom Observation, I was able to watch the foundation level speaking class. The students in this class do not know how to speak English well and were slowly learning. Although you could tell they were struggling, they were extremely energetic and eager to learn as much as possible. The instructor was working on sentence structure, consonant pronunciation, and verb skits and examples. Students were put into groups and told to create a dialogue using certain vocabulary words. This is where i noticed some difficulty. Students liked to go on tangents and started to talk about things that did not pertain to the task at hand. They would talk to their friends about other things and not about the work. In the end however, they all got their work done and were able to finish and learn. One of the main things I learned while observing is that explaining is EVERYTHING. Being able to properly voice your lesson plan to your students is key if you want them to learn.