Preston Baker CO 1

My first class observation was a speaking class with Vicky Ledbetter.  The first thing that I noticed is that she brought lots of energy to the classroom, and she greeted and or acknowledged every student before class began, separately from her roll call. She had her agenda for the day written on the board, I noticed that the students actually looked at it and then ask questions about the material. I thought that was pretty great.  She did a quick review by asking the class about what was taught last class. She used part of the review of nouns to roll right into a lesson on articles. She used a worksheet and a speaking activity which had the students (and me) partner up and run through a sample dialogue with different vocabulary. Ms. Ledbetter didn’t correct every single mistake during the speaking portion but she circulated well and quickly found the common errors/ problem areas and corrected them firmly but nicely.  The classroom control was very well executed, no one student was allowed to dominate discussion, and reminders were given to a few students who tended to jump the gun and answer out of turn.