Date of Class: January 21, 2014
Day of Class: Tuesday
Time of Class: 6:00-7:30
MC: Patrik
DJ: Lisa
Assistants: Colin, Darlene
Module: In the Kitchen
How Many Learners: 4
Score: 33
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
This was the dialogue thrice around:
Question: What did you have for lunch?
Answer: I had a sandwich for lunch.
I guess we should all start eating different things for lunch from now on, at least no more sandwiches.

Date of Class: 1/27/14
Day of Class: Monday
Time of Class: 6-7:30
MC: Mary Louise
DJ: Brooke
Assistants:Ruby, Nicole, Darlene, Alyson, Forrest, Colin, Stephanie, Casey
Module: In the Kitchen
How Many Learners: 4
Score:40
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
The first 2 learners were standing outside the classroom at about 8 after when Brooke went to go look for people. They seemed nervous to come in but they did. The other 2 trickled in sometime between then and 6:30. We started with the alphabet, it was noted that 2 of the learners were having a harder time with it.. we were wondering if it’s because the alphabet sheet is new this term and they were adjusting. We then went onto yell n spell which was interesting with all of the assistants there.. we had many names to spell!
Next was kitchen utensil vocab/dictation. Then a short dialogue in 2 different larger groups, with 2 learners each group. We practiced the names of the items with a short dialogue. Then we stayed in those groups and worked with a document search activity that was then turned into a dictation/dialogue using the content of the document. Class ended with a fun TPR!

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Date of Class:1/28/14
Day of Class: Tuesday
Time of Class: 6pm
MC: Patrik
DJ: SamBones
Assistants: Lisa, Ruby, Casey, Daniel, Jude,
Module: In the Kitchen
How Many Learners: 6
Score:41
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
My first day back after taking a break…Patrik was demonstrating the module to the above 5 assistants who were mostly new and observing how the class functions. The students were all Spanish speakers except for one. Both Casey and Daniel are in the PSU program and were valuable in explaining some new terminology (in the educational sense) when we all were chatting amongst ourselves before class actually started.

Date of Class: 2/3/14
Day of Class: Monday
Time of Class: 6-7:30
MC: ML
DJ: None
Assistants: Alyson, Forrest
Module: Money
How Many Learners: 10
Score: 40
What happened: A great turn-out tonight with 10 people, three of which were new-comers. The alphabet listen and point was a bit scattered, while I tried to organize seating, get the observers engaged and deal with attendance cards, but we eventually got on a roll. With all the new Ss/observers, we spent awhile on names. The Money module seemed to engage the learners more quickly than most- we did some vocab, then spent a good amount of time dictating/writing a slew of different monetary quantities. After passing around some real money and reviewing coin/bill names, we did a coin grab around the room. Each Ss got to say “give me $x.xx” to their neighbor, who found the correct change from the pile. This activity brought really great energy and engagement to the class, which continued through the dictation which reviewed coin/bill values. Overall a great class that almost went over time because we were all so involved- always a good sign.

Date of Class: Feb 4
Day of Class: Tuesday PM
Time of Class: 6:00
MC: Lisa Cha
DJ: Sam Bones
Assistants: David (Jude) Alisa, Colin
Module: Telephone Etiquette
How Many Learners: 11
Score: 36
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
We had three new students tonight! Also nice to see a few students from when I taught a year ago make an appearance. We played telephone and most everything was pretty garbled when it got to the last person. Although Lisa initially was not sure if there would be an issue with strangers whispering closely into each others’ ear, everyone seemed quite comfortable with it. We were split up into groups to work on the dictation/role play, which took up much of the class time. Each group had either Lisa or I or one of the assistants helping the students along.
And, as it turns out, Lisa and I actually know each other (what a small world) from when we were both taiko drummers at PSU, so we already know a bit about working together as a team, which will totally enhance the class.

Date of Class: February 11, 2014
Day of Class: Tuesday
Time of Class: 6:00-7:30 PM
MC: Sam Bones
DJ: Lisa
Assistants: Alisa, Ruby, Mary, Darlene
Module: Telephone Etiquette
How Many Learners: 7
Score: 49
What happened:
Sam Bones brought tin cans for us to play with as telephones, which was so funny watching the learners use it. Playing telephone has turned out to be a very funny activity, some of the final statements ranged somewhere in the form of: ‘Is the spider plastic?’, ‘The guy is’, and ‘The pig is big’ (none of which were even close to the original statement except maybe the spider one). We celebrated Sam Bones’ birthday, so there was chocolate cake and singing!

Date of Class: February 12 2014
Day of Class: Tuesday
Time of Class: Noon
MC: David
DJ: Bones
Assistants:N/A
Module: What do you do?
How Many Learners: 5
Score:37
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
There were some rough spots as far as the class went, but I think though the self eval after the class we worked discussed some potential ways to deal with particular situations and found ways to potentially smooth them out.
David and I are working on becoming familiar with our particularities and understanding how to roll with each others’ teaching styles. David brought a friend, Tokiko, which I understood she is a TESOL student working with Japanese language-learners. She not only wanted to observe, she wanted to be a student as well because she would like to be more proficient in English herself.