Colleen CO 1

Class Observation, Level 1 Grammar
Instructor: Ryan, Assistant: Dan
Equipment: Duolingo App, Computer, Network drive, Canvas, White Board and markers, watch or timer, textbooks, exercise sheet
Instructional Goal: Students will be able to speak, hear, write and read sentences using the simple present tense.
Performance Objectives:Students will be able to produce sentences with the correct grammatical form with accuracy.  Students will participate verbally, as well as with reading and writing.
Attitude Objective: Students were questioned,'Why do we study this grammar element?' Answers were to learn and for the quiz.
Cultural Objective: Instructor used the different languages spoken by the students to assign them to work groups that did not include other students that shared their native language.
Rational: Instructor used language learning theories, communicative activities and grasped meaningful moments to assist students.
Vocabulary:tense, present, positive, negative, question: ie get, drink, eat, come, hang, hear
Events of Instruction:
Pre- Attendance, Introduction of class outline, 3 min
During-
1) Highly Structured Activity, given sentence examples on the board asked to correct- 3min
Second exposure, sentences were reviewed together as a class, instructor diagnosed individual ability by calling on students.- 5min
2) Download and open Duolingo App, instructed to use this App as a learning tool through out their English course- 5min
3) Text Book (pg7) and paper activity.- ~25-30min
Activity Explanation:
A set of 13 sentences using simple present tense were given to the students.
In partners they were to asked to present the sentences as positive, negative or as a question.
ie,
positive- I eat lunch at 3pm everyday.
negative- I do not eat lunch at 3pm everyday.
question- Do you eat lunch at 3pm everyday?
In partners they were asked to produce a sentence that combined their answer and their partners.
Ie,
I eat lunch at 3pm everyday, but my friend does not.

Reviewed: answers on the white board
4) Final class review, projection for tomorrows class- 3min

Instructional Logistics: Preplaning, timing of activities to stay on task, references previous learning.
Evaluation Procedure:In class monitoring with student groups, verbal, checking written work.

Instructor Prompts and Techniques:
- after a correct answer teacher said 'Yes, I understand, that is correct'
- after an incorrect answer teacher said ' Oh, I don't understand'
- indicated positive with thumbs up, negative with thumbs down
- instructor collected sentences with errors from students during the paper exercise to use as review examples at the beginning of his next class.