Sydney_CO1

So my first classroom observation was a Level 2 Grammar class. The instructor was a very young lady, Alexandra Ramos. I got to her class about 15 minutes early and so I helped her set up for her lesson. She told me that she was very new to teaching English, only three weeks in! There were only about 4 students in her class, so it was very quiet and personal. The first part of her class, they went over the homework from the previous class. Alex projected the students sentences on the white board and then went through some corrections with them. The lesson for the day was on articles, and count and non count articles. During the class, I noticed that the instructor used very advanced language like, idiosyncrasy, to explain some of the lesson. It was very hard for the students to understand some of the instructions that she was giving. Yuki, one of my conversation partners was in this Grammar class and he did very well in the class. The instructor did do a great job of giving handouts to her students on the count and non count articles. At the end of the class, Alex showed the students different pictures of objects, cats, toys, trees, milk, water, and air- and they had to decide it those nouns would require a count or non count article.