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Angelena CO #1


On Monday, January 14th from 1:00-1:50, I observed Derrick Pollack’s Group 1 Speaking class.  The focus of that class was to help students in their speaking skills. At the beginning of the class, the professor asked students what they did over the weekend and had each student tell the class what they did. Then each student presented their presentation on fun facts about their friends at CIES.  After each student presented, the teacher graded their presentation using a rubric. He then had them open up their books to Chapter 1 with a passage about Tallahassee and read the passage to them. Students were then instructed to work with a partner and answer the questions in the book about Tallahassee. Materials that the students and the professor used during the class were PowerPoint, the computer, a projector, a textbook, and notes. Derrick Pollack focused on what students were saying throughout their presentations and when they spoke with their partners to identify any mistakes that the students made and then corrected them. He also wrote these mistakes down in his own notes so that he could go over them again in their next class.  Lessons on teaching that I learned from this class is that it’s important to talk to students and read to them at a slower pace so that the students can understand you better. I also saw that it is good to speak slower and clearer when correcting students. I liked that the teacher would ask students to clarify what they said if they did not say something correctly (for example, if they forgot to use a subject) so that students can have a better understanding of what they said incorrectly.  At the end of the class, the teacher had students go over the vocabulary on words relating to outdoor games and activities students can do in Tallahassee and had them form sentences using those vocabulary words. 

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