Ellen TS#11

Tutee: PJ Chang

Date/Time: Saturday 19 September 2015, 10:30-11:30 am

Turns out PJ and I did not do a lesson on video games this week. I was showing Professor Kim my lesson plan for teaching Summary and Paraphrasing. She suggested that I do that lesson with PJ instead because summary and paraphrasing are important skills for students at any level. I checked through my original presentation to make sure none of the material was too advanced for a forth grader. It all seemed fine but I would be sure to keep an eye on PJ during the lesson. PJ really got the concept and the lesson went very well. I think the reason PJ can grasp the lesson relatively easily is because summary and paraphrasing are skills everyone uses instinctually even if we do not know what they are called. To teach these two techniques it more about honing preexisting skills than anything else. I used fun videos and quotations as source text for the practice. I like videos with less dialogue for second language learners who are at lower level. PJ was raised with English and Korean but the presentation was originally intended to teach second language learners. The videos worked for both demographics.