Marissa CO#1

For my first classroom observation I observed a Group 3B Listening class taught by Leslie Wagner. To open the class and gain the attention of students, she showed a couple short viral videos most American internet-users would be familiar with. This was intended as a schema-building activity for the main listening activity, which was a TED Talk video about the how YouTube and its content evolved over time and what it mean for a video to go “viral.” She gave students some vocabulary from the video, then had them watch it and take notes. Afterwards, they answered a few discussion questions in groups of 2-3, which Ms. Wagner went back and reviewed as a class. She also took phrases from the video to review the vocabulary words she had assigned, and better explained them in context (with parts of speech included for each word). The second part of the lesson was about paraphrasing and included another short instructional video on the topic. For the activity, Ms. Wagner read aloud example sentences and had students write down and the share their paraphrased versions.