Date of Class: October 21st
Day of Class:Monday
PI:Kathy Boyd
SI:
Assistants:
Module:In the Neighborhood
How Many Learners:5
Score:
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):

I had three learners to begin with: one high, one intermediate and one very low. My one low level student is illiterate in English and got lost during the dictation activity. It was way too hard for her and the dialogue was too long. The challenge here for me was trying to keep my other tow learners from getting bored as I attended to Gui. Luckily, her grand daughter was there and was able to give her some one on one help. I think next week I may just have her practice writing letters and bring in some simple picture flashcards for reading and pronunciation practice. Anyone have any suggestions?

Two more learners came to class with only 20 minutes remaining and even though they missed a lot were able to engage and interact in a role-play activity and get a little pronounciation practice in.

Date of Class: October 28th
Day of Class: Monday
PI:Kathy Boyd
SI:
Assistants:
Module:Tri-Met
How Many Learners:4
Score:
What happened

Tonight was a complete disaster. First, Yell and Spell did not go as planned. I was unsuccessful in getting the learners to repeat each letter after the speaker. They did it when I spelled my name but not when their classmates did. I even stopped multiple times and had learners start over with their name spelling and still no luck. Second, the learners used many Spanish to communicate. I am okay with them using their native tongue but there came a point where I had to tell them to use English, especially when they were giving me directions from one place to another. Third introducing the tri-met maps was also unsuccessful. None of my students ride the bus so they were all completely confused with reading the map and schedules. I am not sure if I should continue on with tri-met if is not relevant to the learners. I had two students request help with getting around town by car, and one explained her frustration with going to visit friends because she does not know her way around town. The one highlight of the evening was when one student asked how to get to the Clackamas Town Center. I pulled out the system map and showed them one way by max and another learner discovered that you could take the #4 on division or the #9 on powell and then transfer to green line max. This then turned into my dictation activity..unfortunately we ran out of time to finish the dialogue but i hope to finish it next week and have them practice it.

Date of Class:11/18/2013
Day of Class:Monday
PI:Kathy Boyd
SI:
Assistants:
Module: Tri-met
How Many Learners: 2
Score:
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
Tonight I was a half an hour late due to the max being broken down and having to take a shuttle to get to my car at gateway. I finally arrived to class and found two students waiting for. I was able to use my experience in my lesson. After the alphabet listen and point, I pulled out the trimet system map and did a short document search and find activity. Then had them trace my route starting at PSU, transferring to second max, transferring to shuttle bus, and ending at gateway transit center. Then I turned it into a dialogue that I dictated. “How do i get to gateway transit center from psu” “You take the greenline all the way there” “But wait, the max is broke down” (this made them laugh) “Oh that’s right (laughs again) you need to take the green line to lloyd center and then take a bus to the gateway transit center” . The rest of the time was devoted to practicing the dialogue and working on pronunciation. Overall it was a good less and was glad that my transportation issues fit in nicely with the module.

Date of Class: December 9 2013
Day of Class: Monday
PI: Kathy Boyd
SI: None
Assistants: None
Module: Shopping
How Many Learners: 1
What happened: Only one learner came to my last class last night. She brought some food to share because I mentioned the week before that we would have a party to close out the last day before the holiday. I totally forgot all about bringing something and was very apologetic yet she did not seem to mind. We spent the first fifteen minutes chatting about our preparations for the holidays and then I pulled up some Christmas images (Christmas tree, presents, santa claus, snowman, ornaments, etc) on my laptop and dictated the vocabulary words to A. After the dictation activity, I pulled up the u tube video of Jingle Bells that we watched last week. A and I sang along with the video one time and then worked on pronunciation practice by having A read the lyrics out loud. (These were dictated last week to the learners). After the choral response, I played the song a few more times and we both sang along. For the last 15 minutes of class, I dictated part of the 12 days of Christmas (we only got to day 5). Prior to the dictation activity I played the song a few times on u tube for A to listen to. After dictation, she read the lyrics aloud and then next thing I knew we were out of time. As you can see from my description of this lesson, I obviously did not focus on anything remotely close to shopping…I guess my brain was on holiday mode. But at least we had fun and A enjoyed singling some holiday carols with me.