Kinsey Kuhlman CO #2

 I shadowed Dr. Rios during the Advanced Grammar class this morning. 

Date/Time: 6/23/21 10:00 am

Topic/Skill: Review past perfect and past perfect continuous, phrasal verbs 

Teacher Presentation: A review for their quiz the next day over past perfect v. past perfect continuous and phrasal verbs. He first asked students to fill in the blanks to test their knowledge of past perfect versus past perfect continuous tenses. He had students first explain their thought process before providing the answer. Then he had students produce sentences containing phrasal verbs to test their knowledge of their meaning and conjugation.

Classroom Management: The professor asks for classroom participation, corrects each of their mistakes by restating the sentence in the same manner but modeling it with the correct word choice, pronunciation, and conjugation. Dr. Rios took note of things the students were generally confused about and presented a quick grammar lesson to correct them. Dr. Rios encouraged less-involved students to answer some questions.

Materials: Computers, projector, whiteboard, Word software

Student Participation: Students actively engaged with the examples on the board and asked tangentially related questions. Students tried to formulate their own compound sentences using prepositional verbs. 

Feedback Provided: Dr. Rios immediately corrected grammar errors and modeled correct pronunciation but did not correct pronunciation explicitly. Dr. Rios provided encouragement for the students by saying he knows they know the structure, but that they need to study irregular past participles in order to do well on the quiz. 

Lesson(s) on teaching you learned: I learned how to effectively review for a grammar quiz/exam while observing this class. Dr. Rios did a great job getting students to produce sentences using the grammar structure. Dr. Rios provided ample information about what would be on the quiz so students do not feel extremely overwhelmed about the quiz. I liked how Dr. Rios included anecdotes from his personal life to teach cultural lessons about regional variation in language use and other cultural points.