Blog 3_SS2015 - Classroom 2.02024-03-29T11:07:29Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/blog-3?groupUrl=secondaryschoolcurriculuminforeignlanguage&commentId=649749%3AComment%3A1063960&groupId=649749%3AGroup%3A843102&feed=yes&xn_auth=noDear Eulalia, overall you and…tag:www.classroom20.com,2015-04-21:649749:Comment:10642592015-04-21T20:01:40.601ZKimberly Romhinhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/KimberlyRomhin
<p>Dear Eulalia, overall you and your colleague did a good presentation. The use of PowerPoint was helpful for the students to perceive what the activity will be about. There was interaction with the students but not too much of connection because they students were a little confused understanding what exactly you were requesting them to do. Not forget to mention that you emphasized reading comprehension by adding culture to the activity, which is good so they get to learn how parties are…</p>
<p>Dear Eulalia, overall you and your colleague did a good presentation. The use of PowerPoint was helpful for the students to perceive what the activity will be about. There was interaction with the students but not too much of connection because they students were a little confused understanding what exactly you were requesting them to do. Not forget to mention that you emphasized reading comprehension by adding culture to the activity, which is good so they get to learn how parties are celebrated in Spanish speaking countries. </p>
<p></p> Dear Sarai, the activity that…tag:www.classroom20.com,2015-04-21:649749:Comment:10644352015-04-21T19:44:57.267ZKimberly Romhinhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/KimberlyRomhin
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" xml:lang="EN">Dear Sarai, the activity that you and your colleagues taught was well presented because there was a good production developed by the students. The activity that was presented did not just emphasized the reading comprehension because by reading the passage to the student, there was also an input of listening…</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" xml:lang="EN">Dear Sarai, the activity that you and your colleagues taught was well presented because there was a good production developed by the students. The activity that was presented did not just emphasized the reading comprehension because by reading the passage to the student, there was also an input of listening comprehension but not forget to mention that the speaking situation also took place when you asked them about their favorite brand and they have to responded and some of them explained why they like a particular brand. Overall, the group did a very good job.</span></p>
<p></p> The activity you and you comp…tag:www.classroom20.com,2015-04-21:649749:Comment:10644342015-04-21T19:21:42.286ZJose J. Diazhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/josediaz
<p>The activity you and you companion designed was great. I will like to point out the way you carry out the situation when a student asked you a question in her L1, and you kept firm in explaining her everything in the L2 until she was able to understand the instructions. As a student I really liked the emphasis you did in making us to repeat each word correctly, which gives me, as student, the feeling the you were paying attention to me. </p>
<p>The activity you and you companion designed was great. I will like to point out the way you carry out the situation when a student asked you a question in her L1, and you kept firm in explaining her everything in the L2 until she was able to understand the instructions. As a student I really liked the emphasis you did in making us to repeat each word correctly, which gives me, as student, the feeling the you were paying attention to me. </p> Hi Joseph, I believe you and…tag:www.classroom20.com,2015-04-21:649749:Comment:10644322015-04-21T16:27:32.363ZJose J. Diazhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/josediaz
<p>Hi Joseph, I believe you and your partner did a great job because you were able to get everyone attention by showing pictures and not just word on the board. I was able to understand perfectly everything you asked us to do; even though I don’t know too much of Italian. The part when you brought the guest was great because that kept the students excitement as well as their desire to participate in your class. Your objective was clear and simple which help us to keep us on track. </p>
<p>Hi Joseph, I believe you and your partner did a great job because you were able to get everyone attention by showing pictures and not just word on the board. I was able to understand perfectly everything you asked us to do; even though I don’t know too much of Italian. The part when you brought the guest was great because that kept the students excitement as well as their desire to participate in your class. Your objective was clear and simple which help us to keep us on track. </p> Hello Joel, for a reading com…tag:www.classroom20.com,2015-04-21:649749:Comment:10642532015-04-21T16:25:46.097ZKatherine Brillantehttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/KatherineBrillante
<p>Hello Joel, for a reading comprehension based teaching slice, I thought your group did a fantastic job. For a low intermediate class, it is important to make the lesson as engaging, simple, and realistic as possible. If you fail to do so, you may have trouble in keeping the students focus and attention throughout the entire lesson. However, from the beginning to the end you all did a great job at making the mini lesson interactive and alive. For every minute you were up there we were…</p>
<p>Hello Joel, for a reading comprehension based teaching slice, I thought your group did a fantastic job. For a low intermediate class, it is important to make the lesson as engaging, simple, and realistic as possible. If you fail to do so, you may have trouble in keeping the students focus and attention throughout the entire lesson. However, from the beginning to the end you all did a great job at making the mini lesson interactive and alive. For every minute you were up there we were involved in the lesson, whether it was by reading aloud, to ourselves, or answering the short questions you provided us with. This is important because practice makes perfect. It is true that by using "realia" we can engage our students that much more into our activities. I agree with what you said regarding group work. Having the students work on their own may be a bit challenging for the students, especially for a intermediate-low level class. This may discourage them, however in groups it could have been beneficial in case they needed to look to their peers for assistance. Great job!</p> Hi Jose, I felt overall you b…tag:www.classroom20.com,2015-04-21:649749:Comment:10643502015-04-21T16:17:11.231ZKatherine Brillantehttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/KatherineBrillante
<p>Hi Jose, I felt overall you both did a great job and nailed the target/goal that you were trying to achieve for this lesson. The presentation was very informational, as a non Spanish speaker I can say I learned a many new things about the culture. I agree with what you said about the cultural aspect of the presentation being too broad, and this could have been adjusted by spending more time on each of the slides and different topics, or by narrowing it down to 1-2 topics and devoting more…</p>
<p>Hi Jose, I felt overall you both did a great job and nailed the target/goal that you were trying to achieve for this lesson. The presentation was very informational, as a non Spanish speaker I can say I learned a many new things about the culture. I agree with what you said about the cultural aspect of the presentation being too broad, and this could have been adjusted by spending more time on each of the slides and different topics, or by narrowing it down to 1-2 topics and devoting more time to each of those topics, rather than racing through several different ones. I liked how you decided before hand which students you were going to pair up according to their prior skills. This helped to ensure that no one in the class should find difficulty in completing the activity, and also have the opportunity to seek to their partner for help if needed. This gives them the opportunity to teach each other, a little change from the traditional teacher - student way. Lastly, you both did a wonderful job in incorporating the 5 C's into your teaching slice. Great job!</p> Hi Sindy the activity that yo…tag:www.classroom20.com,2015-04-21:649749:Comment:10645502015-04-21T16:12:09.400ZEulalia Garciahttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/EulaliaGarcia
<p>Hi Sindy the activity that you and Sarai presented I loved. You make communication happen within the class. Since you called most of the student’s to participate in the activity. Your activity had something that was interesting to students. You had the reading about a company brand. The reading lesson has a vocabulary related to the success of this company, but for the novice upper level I think this lecture is a little too high to comprehend. Students at this level they had learned the…</p>
<p>Hi Sindy the activity that you and Sarai presented I loved. You make communication happen within the class. Since you called most of the student’s to participate in the activity. Your activity had something that was interesting to students. You had the reading about a company brand. The reading lesson has a vocabulary related to the success of this company, but for the novice upper level I think this lecture is a little too high to comprehend. Students at this level they had learned the vocabulary but still putting words in context still is limited. Even if students have to output the context in a speaking exercise the comprehension is still inadequate. Even that I think you do had a little too high lecture for this class level. I agree that you had an interested topic. That is the main goal to have students motivated in acquiring the language and to participate.</p>
<p> </p> Hello Kimberly, I really like…tag:www.classroom20.com,2015-04-21:649749:Comment:10643482015-04-21T16:10:39.812ZEulalia Garciahttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/EulaliaGarcia
<p>Hello Kimberly, I really liked how you and Natalie presented your activity. It was really a dynamic process because you make students to participated and get involved. Moreover you’re presented to a novice mid-level. Speakers have a limited vocabulary as well as comprehension. Sometimes they make pauses to think about how to say the words and many times they are short of these words. One way to teach this novice level is to illustrate the material and to visualize the main objective. …</p>
<p>Hello Kimberly, I really liked how you and Natalie presented your activity. It was really a dynamic process because you make students to participated and get involved. Moreover you’re presented to a novice mid-level. Speakers have a limited vocabulary as well as comprehension. Sometimes they make pauses to think about how to say the words and many times they are short of these words. One way to teach this novice level is to illustrate the material and to visualize the main objective. Teachers’ guidance it is required for this level. Students can get involved if they have the right direction into practicing the target language. Rules that involve the grammatical structure of the vocabulary were achieved with teachers’ instructions</p> Hello Joe, first of I want to…tag:www.classroom20.com,2015-04-21:649749:Comment:10644292015-04-21T15:17:39.535ZJames López-Navarrohttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/JamesLopeznavarro
<p>Hello Joe, first of I want to congratulate you with your lesson. As you previously mentioned you were able to change the usual mini lesson that everyone does by involving outside of class students. This is beneficial to those students whom are just acquiring skill sets of pronunciation. By allowing these guest speakers to participate you show them that the language is spoken throughout the community and not just in class. I have the same proposal as to have the students interact with these…</p>
<p>Hello Joe, first of I want to congratulate you with your lesson. As you previously mentioned you were able to change the usual mini lesson that everyone does by involving outside of class students. This is beneficial to those students whom are just acquiring skill sets of pronunciation. By allowing these guest speakers to participate you show them that the language is spoken throughout the community and not just in class. I have the same proposal as to have the students interact with these guest speakers in the target language. It allows them to fortify the language and experiment with words to get their message across to the interlocutor Your PowerPoint was in sync with the lesson which is crucial because you don’t want your students to get lost throughout the lesson. Great job Joe!! Keep striving for better.</p> Ciao bello!
You and Katherine…tag:www.classroom20.com,2015-04-21:649749:Comment:10645432015-04-21T15:07:18.947ZSarai Herreroshttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/SaraiHerreros
<p>Ciao bello!</p>
<p>You and Katherine did a fantastic job! I have to say that your presentation actually blew me away, I loved the spontaneity that you both brought to the presentation. Communication is certainly the best way to convey a message and it that's what you were hoping to do you both definitely did that. I really liked the way you made sure whether the class was confused or not and focused or not. The constant involvement of the class allowed that activity to be more enjoyable,…</p>
<p>Ciao bello!</p>
<p>You and Katherine did a fantastic job! I have to say that your presentation actually blew me away, I loved the spontaneity that you both brought to the presentation. Communication is certainly the best way to convey a message and it that's what you were hoping to do you both definitely did that. I really liked the way you made sure whether the class was confused or not and focused or not. The constant involvement of the class allowed that activity to be more enjoyable, hence, if you grasp the audience's attention you get better results. The new vocabulary and professions introduced may have been new to a student but the examples you both provided facilitated our ability to determine what profession was being described. Your guests were also a very cool part of the presentation. "Who am I?" that part of the activity really allows the student to thoroughly think based upon the new vocabulary presented to determine what profession was being described. Fantastic job! :D</p>