Jamaal CO #2

I observed Candace Warmka's Listening Group 1b class earlier today after the Speaking class. It was interesting to see how she changed up the lesson. They initially went over the syllabus and then started a dictation warm-up. The dictation warm-up turned out to take up a good majority of time as students had trouble listening to unfamiliar words. Candace remained attentive to students questions and comments throughout the whole class. Prior to starting the dictation warm-up, she went over vocabulary words that students had started to study from the past week. The warm-up involved listening to a clip of Kung Fu Panda and filling in a worksheet with vocabulary words the characters would use within the context of the script. At first, she didn't use visuals and only used audio. This allowed the students to focus on listening rather than processing two streams of information at once (visual and audio). We didn't get to Chapter 1, which was the next topic on the class schedule, due to time constraints. After class,  I asked how she came up with vocabulary words for the students to learn and she said that she used words that she herself knew come up often in text and conversation. I thought that she was both insightful and intuitive at the same time. Overall, the class was awesome and definitely a great learning experience.