Lesson Title: Hop Pass
Date of Class: 10/9/17
Day of Class: Monday
Time of Class: 6-730
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Fedora
Module: Tri-Met
How Many Learners: 2
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): Need eval forms/attendance 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) = 7
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 5
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 5

Total Score: 34

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): small group, relatively high skill level. Lots of dictation and repeat, letting learners then tell their own story a little bit. Was feeling a little sticky, and not sure if it was working, but a good sign was the learners were speaking after class when I left for quite a while! They are drivers, so the hop pass wasn’t as relevant. We then moved to indigenous people’s day, and I couldn’t find a good video. If they come back, we’ll be able to ramp it up for them. We could have just had a conversation really.

Lesson Title: ticket to ride
Date of Class: 10/16/17
Day of Class: Monday
Time of Class: 12:30 PM
MC: Patrik
DJ: Mark G
Assistants: Gaston, Carole
Module: Society and Culture/Tri-Met
How Many Learners: 5
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =7
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =8
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) =6

Total Score: 42

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): We added one more student to the class and encouraged students and Rigler to invite friends and other parents. The Beatles were a hit.

Lesson Title: Homemade Apple Cider recipe
Date of Class: October 18, 2017
Day of Class: Wednesday
Time of Class: 6-7:30pm
MC: Alisa
DJ: Gastón
Assistants: Sofia, Carolyn
Module: Tree Hugger
How Many Learners: 3
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): Yes

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 7
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) = 7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 5
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 8

Total Score: 40

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

First two learners arrived about 10-15 minutes late. Fun tangible lesson! The third learner arrived around 30-40 minutes late and struggled a little bit trying to keep up, as the lesson was well on its way. Since the staff outnumbered the learners we were able to provide a little more one on one attention to assist the slowest learner. Alisa brought in some homemade apple cider as the culminating part of her lesson. It was DELICIOUS!

Lesson Title: Have you used your HOP pass yet?
Date of Class: 10/23
Day of Class: Monday
Time of Class: 6-730
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Max, Sofia
Module: Tri Met
How Many Learners: 7
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): could use a little box for the cards, and hop pass forms

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 4
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) = 4
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 5
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 4

Total Score: 27

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): This was a complicated class that turned out pretty well. Our largest group yet, for one thing. lots of kids, but we had child care which was great. They all said they liked the ESL class, and didn’t need the computer class to be there, which was cool… but felt weird about it. Lots of requests for the hop pass!

Lesson Title: Trick or Treat
Date of Class: 10/30/17
Day of Class: Monday
Time of Class: 12:30
MC: Mark
DJ: Gastón
Assistants: Carole, Kathy, Patricia
Module: Society and Culture
How Many Learners: 4
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 5
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 6
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: 34

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Today’s lesson incorporated some fun Star Wars masks for the learners to interact with and pass around class. We also had one new learner today!!

Lesson Title: Natural remedies for lice
Date of Class: 11-01-2017
Day of Class: Wednesday
Time of Class: 6pm
MC: Alisa
DJ: Gastón
Assistants: Sofia, Natalie (shadowing)
Module: Pest Control
How Many Learners: 4
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 7
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: 42

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): We had a new learner that Alisa had invited from another PPT site join us this evening. Very pertinent and timely lesson about lice and natural non-toxic remedies to eliminate them.

Lesson Title: Looking for a New Computer
Date of Class: 11/6/17
Day of Class: Monday
Time of Class: 6-730
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Sofia, Sean
Module: Computers
How Many Learners: 11
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): need some more loyalty cards and something to store them in

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 7
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) = 6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6

Total Score: 38

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): class was surprisingly large – it’s gone up every monday night, which is validating, and interesting. It’s our 5 week of class, so that’s a good sign that the program will survive. Interesting that there was only one for the daytime. It’s a challenging week, with days off, day after time change, etc. Sean and Sofia were very gracious, I had to make a lot of interventions.. but we used a best buy circular, found out most folks had bought their computers at best buy, but sofia, sean, and I all had bought our last computers online.. very interesting difference! We worked with the keyboard as an alphabet listen and point, but it was a little difficult to see. Given that it’s going well, we’ll need to make sure that our next class gives everyone something that they want, both with computer practice and language practice and level differentiation. Definitely a difficult challenge. We had 3 new people, one who spoke English really well, another that I knew from community work, and another brought by one of the learners. Definitely interesting, and successful, but we’re flying a little without direction, so we’ll see if we can keep the energy through mid December.