Sarah CO #1

 Date: 6/22/2021

Time: 11-11:50 am

Topic/Skill: 

Inferences and reading "The Monkey's Paw"

Teacher Presentation: 

The teacher went over the first part of the story they had read the previous class, having the students explain it to her and me. Then, she highlighted and talked about what inferences they had seen in the story already. She read the rest of the story to the class, stopping to point out inferences and clarify vocab words. After, the students watched the film for the short story.

Classroom Management:

The class was pretty calm and students only spoke when asked a question. The teacher has the student on    the Zoom call explain the story to me so she could get classroom interaction as well. 

Materials: 

Computer, projector, Microsoft Word, YouTube

Student Participation: 

Students participated by answering the teacher's questions, like what the definition of a word was or what an inference was about. However, they were more passive this class as half of it was spent watching a film.

Feedback Provided:

The teacher clarified definitions if students didn't get them exactly right, and when the student got lost a bit explaining the story to me, she helped put her back on the right track.

Lesson(s) on teaching you learned:

I liked how the teacher had highlighted vocab words to pause on and discuss before they began reading the story, and how she was highlighting inferences as they went along. I also learned that it can be helpful after reading to then see a film, so the reading comprehension is cemented by visual comprehension.