Joshua Valentine
This classroom observation was very different from previous classroom observation. The teacher directly interacted with the observers (me and a girl also observing). He instructed us to take note of the teaching mistakes that the students were making during their speech. Before the speeches started, he introduced an idiom of the day and used it to describe many students in the room. He used it in present, past, and future tense. While the presentations went on, I noticed that the stronger the accent the more difficult it was to perceive a mistake. The most common mistakes were forgetting articles, incorrect subject-verb agreement, and using simple present tense instead of the correct tense (usually past tense). Since this class was different than the previous two, I learned a lot more than I did from a standard lecture style class. I learned how to facilitate presentations and how the teacher maintained interaction in a speech that normally would not be considered a dialogue.
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