Andrew CO #2

 Date/Time: 5/05/21 1:00-1:50p.m.

Topic/Skill: Speaking - Timed speaking assignment

Teacher Presentation: Dr. Rios briefly reviewed the expectations of the assignment, what material they must include in their timed response, and took questions from students before they began working.

Classroom Management: Once more Dr. Rios did his best to keep an air of levity in his class to help offset the anxiety of the students and make them more comfortable with the assignment.

Materials: Computer, Internet access, Zoom, Canvas, Microsoft Word, Timer

Student Participation: For this class students had to complete a timed speaking assignment. For the first half of class Dr. Rios gave students the opportunity to practice this assignment and receive feedback before actually recording their attempt. To do this Dr. Rios displayed the rubric for the speaking assignment over the Zoom call and then gave the students about a minute to think of their responses; After that, students who volunteered had 45 seconds to complete the goals laid out by the rubric. During each attempt Dr. Rios took notes on a word document visible to everyone in the Zoom call. Following each student's attempt Dr. Rios complemented student on what they did well and offered feedback on how to improve what they got wrong. This continued for about 25 minutes and then Dr. Rios had the students work on their assignment individually.

Feedback Provided: Dr. Rios provided feedback to the students willing to practice at the beginning of class and will later review everyone's transcripts and audio files.

Lesson(s) on teaching you learned: The biggest lesson I learned from this class was thinking about how to design assignments that effectively incorporate multiple aspects of language learning at the same time. I had the good fortune of being able to speak with Dr. Rios directly about this while the students were working on their assignments. He showed me how because this speaking assignment has a transcription portion it not only forces the students to use their speaking skills but also their listening, writing, and reading skills. These kinds of activities can have a much greater impact on the students' language retention and development. Dr. Rios also showed me the list of note taking shorthands that he uses. This sheet was amazing to me. It not only allows you to be fast enough to take notes on students' performance while they are speaking, but also when it comes time for grading you can use these shorthands to signal to the student that there is a problem and what that problem is related to without flat out giving them the answer. For Example , if the student said "He am a soccer player" the instructor would mark "he am" with AG to show that there is an agreement error without telling them exactly what to change. I think this is a fantastic method for offering feedback to higher level students and I definitely plan on implementing this later on.