My sixth hour of observation was the second hour of ESAL 0480. After their break ended, the students convened to go over the example of a reworded body paragraph that the teacher made using the same outline as the students. During this activity, the layout of the room was changed so that all students could sit closer to the front of the classroom to see the teacher’s body paragraph better. This change in layout seemed to keep the students focused and interested in the teacher’s example paragraph. While going over the body paragraph, the teacher incorporated the students reading and speaking skills into the activity by having them read parts of the example paragraph out loud and then discussing why certain words were chosen or what they meant. Once again, the students seemed quite engaged as there were minimal side discussions, and all of the students seemed to be paying a good deal of attention to the projector showing Fremiuths example paragraph. The students seemed eager to have the opportunity to view and discuss the teacher’s example paragraph again, presumably due to their upcoming test on the topic. From this second hour of observing this class, I feel that I learned the importance of showing the students your own examples while also ensuring anything you show the students as an example is 100% correct. The students really seemed to take the teacher’s example as exactly what they should aim for and I can understand much better now how having any little issues may lead students to form bad habits and not understand how or why.
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