Kari_CO2

Today I had the pleasure of watching Victoria Davis teach a listening class. One of the first things I noticed about her class was the energy. It was very friendly and laid back, but Victoria definitely still had control. What I've noticed so far from the teaching sessions, is that even though the teachers don't have a lot of material to go over, it still manages to fill the entire class period. The first thing Victoria did was hand back comprehension quizzes and go over them briefly. From what I could see, most of the scores were in the A range. The next thing she had them do was go over a worksheet with select words on it like 'slice' 'candidate' and about half a dozen others and go over the meaning. She had the students work together by tables (which had either 3 or 4 students at a time) for about 5 minutes and helped clarify some of the words if the students didn't understand them. For the actual listening activity, she had a tape player and played a news story which used all the words, and the students were to identify the context in which they were being used. She played the story 2 times, but even still the story went a little fast and the speaker spoke with a British accent, so it made it a little difficult for the students. But Victoria was mainly concerned about making sure the students got the general idea and could pick out the majority of the words rather than focus on the small details. I also got a glimpse of one of their homework assignments that she had given them the night before. It was a listening log, which the students were to fill out based on listening exercises they heard from a website she referred to them. Overall this was a very helpful class observation and I really enjoyed watching Victoria's methods.