Wednesday, September 9, I attended Ryan Flemming's listening class for group 3A. Class started off with a vocabulary quiz. When students weren't quite as quick as anticipated, he allotted them extra time. After collecting up the quizzes, he passed back a few graded assignments and then began on the first exercise. Three students were chosen to come up to the white board and while everyone else took out a sheet of paper and a pencil. The exercise was to help improve note taking. Students listened to a few short recordings on different topics i.e. earthquakes, television, and smoking. Students were to write only essential details and short hand notations. For example, for the recording on earthquakes, one student wrote: E-quake, Richter scale, 1-2 not sensed by humans. When the recordings were finished, the three students were asked to repeat back the main idea of each topic based on their notes to see if their note-taking methods are effective. If they were missing an important detail, the seated students were asked to recall what was missing. The other students' papers were then checked by Ryan to ensure that they, too, had all the important details written down.
The next exercise required small dry-erase boards. The next listening exercised focused specifically on numbers and dates. Students listened to a series of small and large numbers (up into the billions) as well as years (i.e. 1992, 2007, 1782, etc.). When the recording was done, students would all raise their boards in the air to check if their answers matched Ryan's board. If a number was written down incorrectly, the student would read aloud the number they had written and correct themselves.
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