Date of Class:11.5.13
Day of Class:Tuesday
PI:maryam Haghpanah
SI:Zadok
Assistants:mika
Module:Soccer
How Many Learners:9
Score:8-6-8-8-8-8=46
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):The class went smoothly. Everybody participated in activities.We introduced ourselves and worked with alphabet sheets.Then we had sports introduction and dictation.Next we worked with soccer filed copies and at the end we played with words and had dictation.We finished just on time.

Date of Class:10/17/2013
Day of Class:Thursday
PI:Gabby
SI:Verenice
Assistants: Verenice, Marym,and Mika
Module:Money
How Many Learners:7
Score:31
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):

First time teaching was very nervous and was overthinking my lesson plan but as I could remember seemed like everyone got the hang of it and verenice was there to help me when I froze but other than that class went well first time was alright. There is always room for improvement!

Date of Class: 10/15/2013
Day of Class: Wed
PI: Zadok
Assistants: Gabby, Lorraine, Mika
Module: Maps & Addresses
How Many Learners: 7
Score: 4.8+6+6+6+5+5=22.8
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):

1) Preclass: Got to check in with Mika and Gabby before class real quick.
2) Yell & Spell: Lo7rraine showed up here and we all got to work with the whole 2 students we had to start with. We finally built up to 7 by twenty after.
2) NESW: Had students point to the cardinal directions. Went fairly well.
3) Ordinals: Ran through ordinals, did some “th” practice.
4) Addresses: Had students write down addresses. It’s always amusing how you throw out stuff like this and some students instantly give up, but by mid-way through they’re blasting through it.
5) TPR: {walk, read, drive, go straight, turn left, turn right, do a U-turn, stop} By this time, we had run out of time to do a dialogue, so I made up some TPR on the spot. Ended up working pretty well, and the end I had everyone get up and move to my direction, which seemed to be silly fun for all.
6) Postclass: Sat down with Mika and Gabby to talk about class, Lorrain had to leave. The two of them seemed to enjoy the class too, so that’s good.

Date of Class:10/8/13
Day of Class:tuesday
PI:Verenice
SI:
Assistants:Gabby
Module:Maps and Addresses
How Many Learners:7
Score:
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):

It was great getting back in the groof of teaching. There were not as many learners as i thought there would be, which to me was a little disappointing. Mainly because I was looking forward to seeing familiar faces from the Spring term.

For not teaching in a few months, I think class went well. However, it didnt go exactly as I planned. I had an exercise that I have done many times before but have not done in a while and it ended up being a little rusty. I ended up confusing some learners. Other than that, it went well.

I’m hoping that more students show as the weeks go by.

Date of Class: 12-5-2013
Day of Class: Thursday
PI: Todd S.
SI:
Assistants:
Module: Holidays
How Many Learners: 3
Score:
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): With 3 students at the last class of the term, I wanted to have an outline of what to talk about but let the students dictate the flow of where it would go. These students are so motivated (and pretty advanced) that I wanted to follow them, while leading at the same time if that makes sense. I did a dictation, which they wrote line by line, then we practiced the dialogue. Then we talked about certain parts of the dialogue and went further off of it. For example, they seemed confused about the present progressive and when that’s used, so we talked and practiced at length about it. They also, surprisingly to me, wanted to practice irregular verbs. This is usually something I’ll just throw in for 5 or 10 minutes each class, maybe 1 or 2 verbs, practicing but not writing. These students wanted to talk about verbs for much longer than I normally would, and they were very engaged. Overall I very much enjoyed their energy and eagerness, and I feel like they got something from the class-which is something I always question.

Date of Class: 11-21-2013
Day of Class: Thursday
PI: Todd S.
SI:
Assistants:
Module: telephone etiquette
How Many Learners: 6
Score:
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): This class was more advanced than I had thought it would be, so I brought out a couple exercises from past classes. The exercises were more reading and writing based, and it made sense for this class. They seem to be much more interested in writing, and I liked that as a change of pace from the other site, where they like speaking practice much more. We did a basic sentence unscramble and then expanded off of that by having an S ask other S’s a question and the S’s answered in written form. The majority of the class was spent just from that one activity. Another activity was my favorite standby, the flyswatter game. I made it as challenging as I could and they definitely enjoyed it. At the very end of class the SUN organizer, who had been watching for a bit, came up to the class and showed them a pronunciation tip that I hadn’t thought of before, and it was useful for the class and me as well. Since she is a native spanish speaker she made it understandable and was quick about explaining it. Next class I will bring more challenging material for those who are more advanced.

Date of Class: 11/7/13
Day of Class: Thursday
PI: Patrik
SI:
Assistants:
Module: Telephone Etiquette
How Many Learners: 8
Score: 6+4+6+6+5+5=32
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Very nice class.. first time I met some folks in this community, but I met at least one before. One person brought her daughter and she really likes English, she is very proud “Because I’m good at it.” She helps her mom, it’s rad. The group was generally much more skilled than most community classes and really didn’t have much trouble with the dialogues and dictations I did, so we will step it up with more production and longer and more natural dialogues.

Date of Class: 10/31/13
Day of Class: Thursday
PI: Jacob
SI: N/A
Assistants: N/A
Module: Halloween and Language
How Many Learners: 7
Score: 3 + 6 + 4 + 6 + 6 + 5 = 30
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):

Tuesday, I was asked to talk about Halloween, work it into the lesson. But, I was so fixated on a new activity that I wanted to try, that I totally forgot. I was asked to talk about it again today, so I ended up making that the majority of the lesson, but not all of it.

At first, there were only 3 Ss and myself. One Ss, N, speaks Vietnamese and does not know Spanish, and every other Ss in the class is primarily Spanish speaking. The Vietnamese Ss got to class early, and we had a 10 minute conversation that ended in us talking about child support. When the other two Spanish speaking Ss, F and C, sat down, they immediately started talking about something in Spanish, and N said “No! Stop speaking Spanish, I don’t understand! Speak English, this is an English class!”

F explained to her that, while he understood what N meant, it’s hard for him to hear something like that, because many native English speakers tell him he is not allowed to speak Spanish, only English. N said nobody had ever told her that directly, but that when she speaks Vietnamese where she works, to her family, she can see other people get nervous, and so she can only speak English.

I decided to turn this into a conversation about my use of Spanish in the classroom, which we all (myself included) agreed should not happen as much as it does.

I dictated a story, that went on way too long, about how I only got to trick or treat once and then was not allowed to again for the rest of my childhood. I ended with the phrase “I felt left out,” and linked that to the previous conversation about language. I wish I had told a different story, but I think this one worked.

I had 10 minutes left, so I asked everyone what they wanted to be for Halloween. Two people didn’t know (one doesn’t like costumes), one woman Ss wanted to be Spiderman, which everyone laughed at, and so I said “Hey, what if I wanted to be a princess?” A few people agreed that that was ok, so I was a princess and she was Spiderman. Everyone else had pretty normal choices. I turned it into a game where, after everyone had decided, I asked people if they could remember what everyone was, and it worked out pretty well. There was laughter.

I did a lot of things I’ve never done in a classroom before. I don’t know how well they worked, or if they worked at all. I liked the open discussion, but I fear that there were one or two Ss who were completely left out of the majority of the class, even though I tried to facilitate a little bit of interpretation to aid them.