Pak CO#3

For this last classroom observation, I observed Cadence Walters’ listening comprehension class.  She was very organized and showed a lot of energy in her teaching. 

She first started with a brief introduction to what she will be going over for the class and wrote it on the board.  Once she made the introduction, she had her class break off into two teams and had the two teams perform a dictation of what she said.  She would say simple sentences that involved the present and past tense while reviewing, what appeared to be, vocabulary learned from their previous class.

She had the two teams stand in line and each had to run to the board to write out what she said and the team that reached 10 points won the game.  The students were very engaged, excited and were having fun!  The next activity was very similar to the last, however, Cadence had the students write out about 10 sentences in response to prompts given to them on the board.  The answers would be in present, past, and future tenses and at the end of the activity, she corrected their mistakes and gave them very positive and helpful feedback.

The last activity involved another dictation, but it involved the students listening to a short video clip from a romantic comedy.  She was very patient in having the students listen and comprehend the “dialogue” in the clip and the students were also very engaged and found the clip very entertaining.

Lastly, she ended the class giving her students some homework.  She assigned them to perform a dictation of their own on a movie clip of their choice and dismissed them. 

This was an amazing class with lots of energy and I saw that the students truly enjoyed learning.