Matthew CO# 3

For my final Classroom observation I chose Mrs. Ah Young Kim's Listening class. The first thing Mrs.Kim did, after having me explain why I was there, was write a very detailed lesson plan on the board so that the students knew exactly what to expect from the lesson that day. Most of the first half of the class was schema building such as answering questions, looking at graphs and going over new vocabulary. Mrs.Kim had a good strategy of calling out students to answer questions instead of asking for volunteers so that even students who were nervous or less confident had a chance to speak and practice. Mrs. Kim also had me read a report to the class out loud. This made me a little nervous at first, but was good because the students were able to hear a native speaker and helped me gain just a little bit of confidence. After about half of the class time was taken up, Mrs.Kim showed a 15 minutes video of another native English speaker giving a lecture to her students. Here, the schema building paid off as the theme of the whole class was tied together and all of the vocabulary that they had learned was used in the lecture. I was at first surprised about how much schema building there was, but the benefit was obvious when the listening activity began and the students were eagerly taking notes.