Mackenzee CO #1

My first class observation was with Group 2B and the teacher was Victoria Davis. She was a very kind teacher and I appreciated her way of explaining answers so that the students could easily understand. The Agenda for the day consisted of reviewing present tense (be/action) from the previous class, as well as present continuous. Ms. Davis had a model on the board for the students with Subject + to be+ verb(ing). She also had a list of adverbs of frequency on the board (Every, Always, Usually, Sometimes, Never, etc.). She had the students warm up by telling a partner five things about their family using be/present tense or action verbs/present tense. I spoke with Fadia who said she was married and that her mother was a teacher. I enjoyed the partner participation Ms. Davis incorporated in her class, because it allowed the students to engage with each other. It also seemed to help a lot with grammar in use. I noticed that the students would actually try to correct one another when there were small mistakes made in their grammar.

We then spoke about routines with our partners using simple present tense. Fadia said she gets up everyday at 8:00, every week she eats at a restaurant and goes grocery shopping, and she calls her mom everyday. Everyone had a chance to go around the classroom and share their routines out loud and Ms. Davis would correct any mistakes they made on the board for the whole class to learn from, which I thought was helpful as everyone seemed to get the general idea of the lesson but would often times make minor errors. As part of the lesson we also drew three pictures using present continuous and had our partners guess what the picture was of. I drew someone gardening and Fadia said she had never heard that term in English before.