Alycia CO #1


Date/Time: May 10, 2018 11:00AM

Class: Reading
Level: 3A
Instructor: Angel Rios
The focus of the class today was to learn the vocabulary from an article that they had been working with this week. Mr. Rios began class by having the students orally summarize the article as he broke it down into sections based on ideas presented in the article. This was how he was able to gauge the students retention and reading comprehension. After this he had the students work on an activity where they would match definitions to vocabulary words. When they had initially read the article earlier in the week, Mr. Rios had gone over the definitions with them, so today's exercise was drawing upon their notes and memory to complete the matching task. After letting them work together for about 20 minutes, Mr. Rios had them each write an answer for the terms on the board. He then proceeded to go through those answers with the students, asking them if they agreed with the answer that had been written, why or why not, and repeating the explanations for ones that they struggled with. One interesting part was when there was a word that could be correct with two different definitions. After Mr. Rios went over the answer with the students, I asked if the second definition would work. In that moment, several of the students expressed their confusion as well, believing that the second option was actually the correct one. Mr. Rios then explained how they could both work, but the context of the usage in the passage determined that the first definition was the best choice for the project. This was a great learning moment for me for two reasons. The first, Mr. Rios showed how a teacher could handle such confusion among his students. And second, and more importantly, that there are students that may be confused and just not want to speak up, thus not getting answers to their questions. This got me to start thinking that if I could find a way to raise the possible issues, I should, because that may be a question that a shy student may be wanting to ask.

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