Date/Time: May 11, 2017; 11:00-11:50AM
Location: Room 311
Teacher/Subject: Vicky Golan, Reading
Group: 4
For my final class observation I joined Vicky Golan's group 4 reading class. The students in this class were very proficient in English and did very well communicating with their teacher and the class flowed very quickly and easily with very few corrections and or hiccups at all. Just about everything they discussed was written on the board so that the students would be honing in on listening and reading skills whether it was the agenda for the day, the vocab words they would be going over, or even my name which was written on the board after I was introduced to the class which I thought was a great idea. They started the class with a vocabulary quiz where they had to write the definitions to five words and had the option of writing sentences along with them as well. They were told that in the future the sentences would be mandatory so that she knew that they truly knew the meaning of the word and how to use it in context. The class completed this quiz with relative ease using less time to finish than I had expected. After the quiz they were told they would be getting into groups of three and discussing and answering questions to an article they had read earlier in the week. I joined a group of three girls and they started to slowly discuss some of the questions while I observed and at first seemed overly concerned with filling out the worksheet they were given until Ms. Golan came over and told them to discuss more and not worry about writing too much on the sheet but rather going deeper into conversation about the bullets listed on it and reminded them that they had a resource in me as an American student. The article was about international students having a hard time making close American friends and how that differed in different regions of the U.S as well as depending on what the students country of origin was. Once we started talking briefly about what factors that we thought made it difficult for international students to make close friends in here conversation really began to flow and it was an awesome experience. We got slightly off topic talking about each of the girls' personal experience here at FSU and in Tallahassee but did end up being able to answer the questions that were in the textbook as well. We spoke about internal and external factors that keep some International students and American students from truly gaining close friendship amongst one another and I think we all came out of the conversation better off. All of the students in the class spoke really well and I could tell that the three girls in my group enjoyed being able to practice speaking with a native english speaker and hearing from my point of view just as much as I enjoyed hearing each of theirs. Before I knew it the class had come to an end and I was truly happy with my participation. All in all this may have been my favorite observation because it sort of gave me a taste of what kinds of conversations I will be having with students in my host country in the near future!
For my final class observation I joined Vicky Golan's group 4 reading class. The students in this class were very proficient in English and did very well communicating with their teacher and the class flowed very quickly and easily with very few corrections and or hiccups at all. Just about everything they discussed was written on the board so that the students would be honing in on listening and reading skills whether it was the agenda for the day, the vocab words they would be going over, or even my name which was written on the board after I was introduced to the class which I thought was a great idea. They started the class with a vocabulary quiz where they had to write the definitions to five words and had the option of writing sentences along with them as well. They were told that in the future the sentences would be mandatory so that she knew that they truly knew the meaning of the word and how to use it in context. The class completed this quiz with relative ease using less time to finish than I had expected. After the quiz they were told they would be getting into groups of three and discussing and answering questions to an article they had read earlier in the week. I joined a group of three girls and they started to slowly discuss some of the questions while I observed and at first seemed overly concerned with filling out the worksheet they were given until Ms. Golan came over and told them to discuss more and not worry about writing too much on the sheet but rather going deeper into conversation about the bullets listed on it and reminded them that they had a resource in me as an American student. The article was about international students having a hard time making close American friends and how that differed in different regions of the U.S as well as depending on what the students country of origin was. Once we started talking briefly about what factors that we thought made it difficult for international students to make close friends in here conversation really began to flow and it was an awesome experience. We got slightly off topic talking about each of the girls' personal experience here at FSU and in Tallahassee but did end up being able to answer the questions that were in the textbook as well. We spoke about internal and external factors that keep some International students and American students from truly gaining close friendship amongst one another and I think we all came out of the conversation better off. All of the students in the class spoke really well and I could tell that the three girls in my group enjoyed being able to practice speaking with a native english speaker and hearing from my point of view just as much as I enjoyed hearing each of theirs. Before I knew it the class had come to an end and I was truly happy with my participation. All in all this may have been my favorite observation because it sort of gave me a taste of what kinds of conversations I will be having with students in my host country in the near future!
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