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Lesson Title: Oregon Represents
Date of Class: 2/22/16
Day of Class: Monday
Time of Class: 6-730
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Tamara
Module: Education & Government: Citizenship Test
How Many Learners: 8
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): Need more loyalty cards.. and more volume on the tabletSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 6
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) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 3Total Score: 33
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Redid the same lesson from earlier, and it was good.. we got to bring in Kate Brown as well. We had a couple of youth visit, and they were fun and mostly helpful.. Had a conversation with one learner who walked out of class last week, and encouraged her to accept an apology from Jess.
Lesson Title: Oregon Represents
Date of Class: 2/22/16
Day of Class: Monday
Time of Class: 12-130
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants:
Module: Education & Government
How Many Learners: 15
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): Need some more Loyalty cardsSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 4
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 6
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) = 3Total Score: 29
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Inspired by my work with another client, I decided to work on the names of senators and representatives. Pronouncing Ron Wyden was difficult! But it was well received and great practice, and it makes me think I’d like to invite an elected into our classroom if we can keep it going forward!
Lesson Title: ??
Date of Class: 2/18/16
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 12-130
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Tony
Module: Shopping
How Many Learners: 18
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): Not quite enough shopping adsSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 4
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 4
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) = 3Total Score: 28
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): though the score for this class was pretty low, it was a really nice class in many ways.. just very large, with several new folks at least three of whom were very shy and low skill level. But validating to get such a big group.. we switched to the two islands model, which felt pretty good given the circumstances. Tony did a little better, but still shy. Several new folks really helped out, and that was great. It took me 4 days to post this reflection, hence I’ve forgotten the name of the lesson, and therefore the low number on reflection.
Lesson Title: Talons Galore
Date of Class: 2/17/16
Day of Class: Wednesday
Time of Class: 12-130
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Ivy, Barbara, Gladys from Audubon
Module: Science, Nature, Tech – Birds on the Wing
How Many Learners: 15
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) = 6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 8
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 7Total Score: 41
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): One of the highest scores I’ve given myself. Large class, though several key people were sadly not there, but folks were super interested in the Owl, Gladys was great, super professional, relaxed, flexible. We also passed around a talon and a claw, that was awesome. Will dig even deeper next week!
Lesson Title: Stop Sign
Date of Class: 2/16/16
Day of Class: Tuesday
Time of Class: 12-130
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Kelly, Judy, Megan
Module: Maps & Addresses
How Many Learners: 11
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): Need to organize that green boxSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 3
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) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 5Total Score: 34
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): class energy was good. A couple people we were missing last week popped up again, very good to see them. It’s a nice group, we’ve kind of imported about 50% of people are kind of new, I love seeing how the classroom evolves over time.. doesn’t go away, but keeps changing as people decide to move on, and others decide it’s a good place for them for a little while. Assistants were really great.
Lesson Title: Not For Sale
Date of Class: 2/11/16
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 12-130
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Tony
Module: Shopping
How Many Learners: 9
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): cut up some new loyalty cards. need to organize the green box!Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 3
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 4
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 5
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) = 5Total Score: 29
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Our los skill learner is improving rapidly as she figures out what the rules are.. needing to remind our regulars that their modeling is what gives the support. Tony was very gracious.. nervous at first, but fell right into it after a bit of coaching. A learner I haven’t seen in two years came back! But a little awkward yet with a kid in between him and another learner. But I’m happy the mom keeps coming, she’s coming along well too.
Lesson Title: Bird on a Wire
Date of Class: 2/10/14
Day of Class: Wednesday
Time of Class: 12-130
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Barbara
Module: Science, Nature, Tech – Birds
How Many Learners: 12
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): need to cut more loyalty cardsSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 3
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 8
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 7
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 5Total Score: 36
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): largest group all week, we filled up the tables. The use of the highlighter for the lower skill learner worked very well! An amazing breakthrough, actually, so I bumped up my technique score to a high number. On the other side, my song didn’t work, and my listen and do didn’t work very well either.
Lesson Title: Shop and Save
Date of Class: 2/4/16
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 12-130
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Marc
Module: Shopping
How Many Learners: 12
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): Grabbed some walgreens ads,Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 4
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 3
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 5
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 4
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6Total Score: 28
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Nice size class, one new learner with limited writing skills, and I asked two of our experienced folks to support her, they did well. The material was seen as relevant with the shopping ads, and one learner really worked to expand their fluency by saying.. I didn’t go shopping, but my daughter went shopping. We had two kids, one was hiding. But overall the class was lumpy. I made some choices that weren’t very clear.. do you have Kleenex at home? Also, had I planned my class, I would have been able to make better use of the shopping ads, and avoid some confusion related to brands not being very visible in the shopping ads.
Lesson Title: Songbird
Date of Class: 2/3/16
Day of Class: Wednesday
Time of Class: 12-130
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Colleen, Barbara, Ivy
Module: Science, Nature, Tech – Birds
How Many Learners: 11
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): Cut up new loyalty cardsSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 3
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 4
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 4
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) = 6Total Score: 28
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Today, I did things out of order, which kind of throws the group off. But.. it’s nice to see the higher skill folks who go to other classes come back to us as they realize that what we have to offer is valuable in a different way “it’s more practical”. Also, a couple of people returned, one who we haven’t seen in almost a year, who has been ill. So good to see her again.. coming back for the community. Doing full names, first and last took longer and almost bogged down, but as we moved into the wordcloud, that was forgotten. And then.. finished the class with Blackbird, a nice version with an older mccartney. People commented on the poetry.
Lesson Title: Wash it Away
Date of Class: 1/27/16
Day of Class: Wednesday
Time of Class: 12-130
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Ivy Barbara
Module: Science-Nature-Tech: Stormwater Management
How Many Learners: 7
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): more stormwater management sheetsSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 4
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 5
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 4
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6Total Score: 31
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): class was surprisingly small today.. and at first, it was just one, then a new person with a very high skill level. I’m sure the parking situation was part of it. But also, some changes I’ve made, such as separating two people or other things might have made a negative impact. Maybe folks are worried we might go on another trip? Not sure. But, a couple of returnees have come several times showed up around 2pm.. we let them know when the time of the class was. Another interesting thing.. one of the Russian speaking librarians has started to create several classes in russian around the ESL class.. it’s really interesting, and indicates the success of our model to draw community members in, and then plug them into other things.
Lesson Title: You Look Very Nice!
Date of Class: 1/26/15
Day of Class: Tuesday
Time of Class: noon-130pm
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Judy, Colleen
Module: Society – Culture: Small Talk
How Many Learners: 13
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): low on alphabet sheets and loyalty cardsSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 6
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) = 7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 8Total Score: 39
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): A great day with Judy and Colleen.. they got a really good show, and the table filled up very nicely, though folks had trouble finding parking and there were a couple newcomers and a couple of latecomers creating a little bumpiness.. also the class was a little flat since small talk doesn’t have a lot of visible stuff with it, and some of the long timers were waiting around a lot, but new connections were made, and I chatted at length with the shadowers.
Lesson Title: Fifty States
Date of Class: 1/25/16
Day of Class: Monday
Time of Class: 6-730pm
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Tamara
Module: US Geography
How Many Learners: 10
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): needed new alphabet sheets, and cutting new loyalty cardsSelf 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) = 3
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 4
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 4
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 4Total Score: 24
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): folks kept trickling in over time.. eventually several fellows came in and they were kind of passive.. we got them going a little bit.. then a couple came in with kids who participating, but also distracting them a lot. One long time learner got up and left, and then the mom left. challenging, chaotic day. Tamara was super helpful!
Lesson Title: Green Streets
Date of Class: 1/20/16
Day of Class: Wednesday
Time of Class: 12-130
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Marc, Svetlana, Ivy
Module: Stormwater Management
How Many Learners: 8
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): Ivy brought back our green streets stuff, and even more educational materialsSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 6
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 8
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) = 7Total Score: 43
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): we took the bus, with 8 learners, and went to a green street on 127th and stark.. it was really neat, logistics worked out well, Ivy got the bus passes, It was a little difficult to hear with cars, but it didn’t rain. One woman was taking video of us outside, and really excited about what we were doing! That was an unexpected magical bonus. I made an error by running across at the safe crossing flashing beacon, and everyone started running after me. That could have been differently planned. Also, there was a guy who was in vietnam who tried to engage one of our learners. Very interesting.
Lesson Title: What’s Up?
Date of Class: 1/19/16
Day of Class: Tuesday
Time of Class: 1-230
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Judy
Module: Society & Culture – Small Talk
How Many Learners: 6
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): got rid of old loyalty cards, and cut some new ones up.Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 3
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 5
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 4
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) = 6Total Score: 27
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): It was nice to see some old faces and some new ones! Took a few minutes to get warmed up, but it settled into a nice flow. Could have definitely had more stuff, and I want to use MLK Speech!
Lesson Title: A Hard Rain is Gonna Fall
Date of Class: 12/9/15
Day of Class: Wednesday
Time of Class: 12-130
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Danielle, Ivy, Barbara
Module: In The Neighborhood – Markets & Fairs
How Many Learners: 8
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): alphabet sheets neededSelf 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) = 6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 8
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 4
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 5Total Score: 32
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): We decided to work with stormwater management again to reinforce some of the lessons from november, and because Danielle was there, and she’s from Johnson Creek Watershed Council. There has been a lot of rain, so it was the perfect time to talk about it!