Lesson Title: Working History
Date of Class: 7/11/2018
Day of Class: Wednesday
Time of Class: 6:00 pm
MC: Zoe
DJ:
Assistants/Shadowers/Auditioner: Hannah
Module: Employment and Economy
How Many Learners: 11
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):
Only 1 alphabet sheet left. If time during the next class, please do a thorough search for the deck of professions.
Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 5
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 5
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 5
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6

Total Score: 33

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Hannah arrived promptly with her lesson plan that she had read over and had great questions about. Most of the learners were there early, but a few came in during alphabet listen and point. She did alphabet listen and point, yell and spell, the dictation progressions, a number of round robins, and a great activity designed to guess her profession. The activity was designed so that we could model it, but the learners were so engaged they jumped right in and we only had to encourage them every once in a while. Overall this was a very successful dress rehearsal and we had two new learners.

Lesson Title: Citizenship Test
Date of Class: 7/12/18
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 6pm
MC: Joseph Morse
DJ: Hannah Hildreth
Assistants/Shadowers/Auditioner: n/a
Module: Government and History
How Many Learners: 7
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): Didn’t have time to make more copies of the Alphabet Sheet, but the Deck of Professions was found!

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 5
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =4
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 5

Total Score: 33

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):

Overall, things went well. Group was larger than what MC was prepared for and, he thought that having “learners of different levels was a challenge”. Had some technical difficulties with the video and the internet, but DJ was able to keep busy with document word search and dictation progression. Technique was fine, could have used “Ready” more often. Students were engaged, but it took some time to warm up. Overall, it went fine and the learners enjoyed Bingo at the end.

Lesson Title: Citizenship Test
Date of Class: 7/19/18
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 6pm
MC: Joseph Morse
DJ: Hannah Hildreth
Assistants/Shadowers/Auditioner: n/a
Module: Government & Education
How Many Learners: 11
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): May need more loyalty cards (I personally have some, but more may need to be added to the box).

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 5
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =7
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =5
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 8

Total Score: 38

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Overall, the class went well. The seating arrangement was great, so the lower level learners were able to work with the higher level learners and succeed together. Some students started to show some disinterest during Alphabet Listen & Point, but moving on to Yell & Spell helped re-engage those learners. MC needed heavy prompting throughout the document word search and dictation progression, and round robin. Learners enjoyed bingo at the end of the class. We had to new learners at class today. DJ used the reflection time at the end to reiterate the importance of “Ready!” and moving around the classroom, and how to properly work through dictation progression and round robin.

Lesson Title: As American as Apple Pie
Date of Class: 7/26/18
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 6pm
MC: Qrysi
DJ: Hannah Hildreth
Assistants/Shadowers/Auditioner: n/a
Module: Government & Education
How Many Learners: 10
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): There are some uncut loyalty cards in the box, but other than that, we are close to being out. There is also only one more self-evaluation paper left, so more will needed to be printed.

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 5
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 7
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10)= 5
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6

Total Score: 35

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
Qyrsi led a great class today. We had 2 new learners. We went through the alphabet sheet, yell & spell, this is an apple, a new category game Qyrsi came up with, a document word search, and dictation progression. The learners really enjoyed the category game because it got them to get up and move around a lot. They got really into it. I think it was a nice change of pace from what the previous classes have been, and I look forward to incorporating some of the techniques and games that were done today into my own classes. Overall, it was an awesome class, and I believe the students are getting more attuned with helping each other out without much prompting.

Lesson Title: Programs at the Library
Date of Class: 08/08/2018
Day of Class: Wednesday
Time of Class: 6 PM
MC: Hannah
DJ: Christina
Assistants/Shadowers/Auditioner: (Guest Speaker: Lisa)
Module: The Library
How Many Learners: 6
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): eval sheets

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 5
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 5
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 5
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 5
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6

Total Score: 32

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): The MC prepared a lesson the previous night, but we were told hours before the class that we would have a guest speaker which led the MC to adapt her lesson plan to include the guest. We had one new learner. The alphabet sheet went a little too fast and had a string of combinations that were too complex for some of the students to follow along to. The guest speaker was able to share some information about herself and some things that the library offers. We did a document search of the current library programs and did “This is a…” with library related objects. We lastly played a game of bingo to wrap up the class. Students overall had a good time and were engaged with the bingo game.

Lesson Title: What shift do you work?
Date of Class: 8/16/18
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 6pm
MC: Melissa
DJ: Hannah
Assistants/Shadowers/Auditioner: n/a
Module: Government & Employment
How Many Learners: 13
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): We’re in good shape!

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 7
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =7
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =7

Total Score: 41

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Melissa led a great class today, where we had 3 new learners. We had a lot of new learners, some who were low leveled, so Melissa led a nicely passed alphabet sheet activity. Yell n Spell went great. We did a time card activity, where we filled out a time card like we were at work. We also did a document word search about minimum wage in Oregon. Overall the class went well, and it was exciting to see 13 learners at Midland! The most we’ve had this session!

Lesson Title: Looking for a Book
Date of Class: 08/29
Day of Class: Wednesday
Time of Class: 6:00PM
MC: Claire
DJ: Vanessa
Assistants/Shadowers/Auditioner: Francine
Module: Library/Library Orientation
How Many Learners: 10
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): COMPLETELY out of loyalty cards

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 5
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 4
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 5
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 4
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6

Total Score: 30

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Because me and Claire are still getting our bearings, the class didn’t feel as organic as it could’ve or should’ve been. Despite that, everyone was totally engaged and the content seemed to stimulate minds and posed challenges. We had two newcomers and they fit right in with the rest of the class! (Welcome Juana and Jacky!) The students seemed to struggle with dictation, but this was in part due to the chattiness of this particular group. MC Claire did a great job leading, but progression dictation lost its way a bit down the line. In hindsight, we decided that because the students tend to get overwhelmed easily during this section of the class we would improve DP for next time. Also, there were no loyalty cards whatsoever and I had to scramble to print more during actual class time, which left our shadower Francine to do the heavy lifting in my place. I slightly replenished them for next class, but I’m really hoping people will remember to replace them or at least leave the one sheet in the folder to make copies from.

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