Lesson Title: The Curious case of the Hidden Rose
Date of Class: 10/18/2017
Day of Class: Wednesday
Time of Class: 12:00pm
MC: Benjamin
DJ: Izzy
Assistants:NA
Module: Nutrition
How Many Learners: 12
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) =7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =6
Total Score: 36
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Smaller class than last week but everyone was connected and one learner brought in snacks for everyone. Benjamin used a lot of writing prompts and there was a good balance of easier and harder sentences. The learners seem to enjoy the challenge and asked a lot of questions.

10/23/17 12:00-1:30 class:
*I keep jumping the gun on my submission!!! UGH!!!

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Today’s class was very rough–I was moving tables and finding chairs as people kept coming in the room while holding my lesson in my other hand. There were over 20 learners and I was by myself. I only got through about 1/3 of my plan and there were a LOT of kiddos to trip over and yell above, but I got through it in one piece!!
While reflecting on the class later, what I took away were these two salient features: 1) our learners LOVE to help us and their classmates any way they can–F. and C. were right there at the ready to help with moving tables and modeling the logistics of the class for newcomers. 2) Having very low-level learners who have a difficult time distinguishing one roman letter of the alphabet from the next really showcases those learners who have been with us for enough time where we teachers can see the progress they’ve made. It’s such a cool feeling to help one learner struggle with the shape of letters on the page and then have the person next to them ask me the tense of the verb we are working with when eight months ago they might not have been able to spell this word and didn’t know its definition.

Lesson Title: Tell Me About It!
Date of Class: 10/24
Day of Class: Tuesday
Time of Class: 12-130
MC: patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Judy, Madeline, May
Module: Zoned Residential
How Many Learners: 15
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): cut up new loyalty cards

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) = 4
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 5
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 5
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 4

Total Score: 30

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): following up on a harrowing day that Maureen had on Monday, we did pretty well with 15 people. We didn’t recognize May as a Shadower! We also were able to ask about rent payments, and people seemed pretty interested in answering.

Lesson Title: I lost my train of thought
Date of Class: 10/23/2017
Day of Class: Monday
Time of Class: 6pm
MC: Qryci
DJ: N/A
Assistants: N/A
Module: 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) =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) =6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =4
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =4

Total Score:31

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):We did dictation, round robin, this is a ___, and a couple short dialogs. There was lots of talking and laughing.

Lesson Title: How to make pumpkin soup
Date of Class: Oct 30 2017
Day of Class: Monday
Time of Class: 6pm
MC: JacobSensiteur
DJ: N/A
Assistants: N/A
Module: Society & Culture
How Many Learners: 6
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): Only 4 loyalty cards left that I could see

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) = 7
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 1

Total Score: 31

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): First time teaching alone in a PPT class in awhile. It went fine, although I was preparing materials for tomorrow and accidentally handed out OHP documents for a document search. Preview for next class!

Lesson Title: History of Halloween
Date of Class: 10/31/17
Day of Class: Tuesday
Time of Class: 12-130
MC: patrik
DJ:
Assistants: May, Judy
Module: OHP (Halloween)
How Many Learners: 14
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): everything is good, but the loyalty cards were messed up, and the blank ones mixed in.

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 2
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 2
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 3
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 4
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 3
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6

Total Score: 20

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): spent more than an hour looking for a good video, and it was too challenging, I didn’t prepare for it well, I had tech issues, and some were reacting to the materials. There were some good words, and our higher skill folks def had something to chew on, but one of the least flowing classes I’ve had in years.

Lesson Title: hop pass
Date of Class:10/16
Day of Class: monday
Time of Class:noon
MC:benjamin
DJ:
Assistants: TriMet rep
Module:hop pass
How Many Learners:11
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =6
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) =7
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =5

Total Score:37

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): good class with the help of TriMet. Passed passes around and explained basics of how it works.

Lesson Title:Why do Americans celebrate Halloween?
Date of Class: 10/30/2017
Day of Class: Monday
Time of Class: 12pm
MC: Maureen
DJ: Qrysi
Assistants: N/A
Module: Fall Holidays
How Many Learners: 12
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) =6
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: 39

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): We had two learners and a bunch of regularly returning learners. We wrote down a few sentences about Halloween, practiced a dialog about trick-or-treating, and played two games. The first game was vocabulary-style BINGO. The learners got kind of competitive so it was pretty fun. The second game was new to me and the learners had a blast! The MC spread a bunch of scrabble pieces on the table, shouted out a word, and the two teams had to work with their teammates to spell out the word correctly. One new learner came in really late and shied away from working with the people around her until this activity. She was laughing and it looked like she was having a lot of fun.