Isabel CO #4

 Hecht House 2:00-2:50

05/12/2022

Thursday Listening Class

This course observation is unique from the others because it is my first time seeing back to back lessons of the same class. I wanted to see how a professor would continue the lesson from before to the next day. The teacher began the class with a True or False quiz based on the listening activity from the day before. He played the podcast Hawaii False Alarm again for the class. The students then proceeded to respond to the quiz questions. The questions pertained to phrases uttered in the podcast. There were missing words and the students had to fill in the blanks with the new vocabulary words. They then had to recall if the filled in sentence was true or false. This is a great activity to see if students are not only paying attention, but also understanding the material. I noticed that the teacher makes it a point to ask, "Do you want anymore information about this?" before moving on to the next topic. I will be sure to adopt this habit when I teach to ensure I am not leaving my students behind in the lesson. The second activity regarded the excerpt about the LA Riots from the day before. The teacher had the class define unknown phrases including "descend into chaos." The class provided their own definitions, such as "to get out of hand" or "to get out of control." Students displayed the ability to use context clues to understand the overall message of the written piece from the exercise. The students were separated into small groups to answer comprehension questions together. Questions like "Why do you think people reacted this way?" and "What other events in world history did something similar happen?" were asked to gage comprehension. Students compared the LA Riots to the George Floyd protests and the outrage caused by the 1980 massacre in South Korea. The teacher then asked if they had experienced or seen a similar situation themselves. This prompted the teacher to share a personal story from his time spent in Guatemala. The teacher provided visual aids as he shared his story with the students to guide them along. I previously thought due to the difficulty of words these students were learning that providing pictures was beneath them. I was wrong. Displaying images when telling a story in a foreign language remains helpful no matter the level. 

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