For my first classroom observation, I went to a Group 2A Grammar class taught by Isaiah Kraus. The first thing I noticed was how small the class was. I asked him about it after class and he told me part of it had to do with the fact that it was summer but even despite that the max class size is normally 15 people. For this particular class, the topic was Definite and Indefinite Articles. He used the Inductive Teaching method as he first quizzed the students by asking them to place the correct article in the missing spot in the sentence. He did this through a really cool website called Kahoot.com. The students were able to log in through an app on their smart phones and respond electronically. If I'm in a teaching situation with the resources to use this site, I definitely will. He finished the class by lecturing the various rules and passing out a paragraph in which the articles missing and asking the students to fill in the blanks. Throughout the lecture I also really noticed the emphasis he had on using hand gestures and visuals to assist in communicating to the students. They really seemed to respond to the additional information provided and appreciated it.
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