Tessa CO #5


Date/Time: Wednesday, October 30, 10:00-10:50am 

Topic/Skill: Grammar, Ryan Flemming, Group 4

Teacher Presentation: The teacher went over topics that will be on their quiz tomorrow. Lots of exercises included fill in the blank, correct sentences, use of perfect gerunds and perfect infinitives. The teacher also discussed the usage of subjunctive and how the subjunctive functions in formal writing. For the second half of the class, the class read an article together and the teacher created true/false statements (based on grammar) for the students to correct. 

Classroom Management: The teacher allowed for some long moments of silence as the students were thinking through things out loud. He would also call on students who were quieter or hadn’t spoken in a while. He also asked one student who had been particularly vocal to try to exercise independently and asked the other students to try it. 

Materials: computer and projector

Student Participation: The teacher used a random sentence generator and students would work together to correct the mistakes. 

Feedback Provided: The teacher would correct their sentences, since the focus was on grammar, but he would show them that there were multiple ways to say something, especially in informal American English. 

Lesson(s) on teaching you learned: The students found it very helpful when the teacher would type on a word document that was projected, so they could see what he was saying. The teacher also listened to the student’s answers in full and then would work through why they were incorrect, rather than stopping them right off the bat. 


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