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Greg uses engaging teaching methods like incorporating students' interests, giving positive feedback, and asking questions to encourage participation. Students are comfortable with Greg but reluctant to speak English. They converse in Korean. Lessons focus on listening, speaking, reading and writing skills and include activities like identifying music genres, solving riddles, summarizing articles, and pantomiming vocabulary words. Greg plans lessons around principles of engagement, synthesis and application and finds online resources to make lessons relevant and fun for students.

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Greg uses engaging teaching methods like incorporating students' interests, giving positive feedback, and asking questions to encourage participation. Students are comfortable with Greg but reluctant to speak English. They converse in Korean. Lessons focus on listening, speaking, reading and writing skills and include activities like identifying music genres, solving riddles, summarizing articles, and pantomiming vocabulary words. Greg plans lessons around principles of engagement, synthesis and application and finds online resources to make lessons relevant and fun for students.

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SielSnowden

ThisiswhatIobservedduringthefirstweekofobservations:
Teachertostudent:
Gregspokeslowlyandloudlyandusedlarge,animatedgesturesand
expressionstoconveymessagestotheclass.Hewasquicktogivepositivefeedbackwhenhe
heardastudentspeakinginEnglish.Heaskedalotofquestionstocheckforcomprehension
andreferencedthingsthestudentswereinterestedin(boys,KPop,food,etc)tokeepthem
interested.
Studenttoteacher:
Studentsoftengaveonewordanswersandseemedreluctanttospeakin
English.However,theyseemedverycomfortablewithGreganddidn'ttreathimwiththesame
respectasotherteachers.Gregdoesn'tseemtomind.
Studenttostudent:
SpeakalmostentirelyinKorean,oftentalkwhileteacheristalking
TeachingTechniques:
1. Lessonobjective:
Afterlearningthenamesandgenresofmusic,firstgraderswill
accuratelyidentifythecharacteristicsofgenresandidentifythegenresofsongs.
a.Listeningpractice:Studentsidentifythegenresofsongstheyhear
b.Speakingpractice:StudentsrepeatsentencesafterGregandthenanalyzewhat
theyvejustsaid
c.Readingpractice:Studentsreadsentencesandmatchthemwiththeirmeanings
d.Writingpractice:Studentswritedownthegenreofeachsong,rateitonascaleof
110,andexplainwhytheychosethatnumber.
e.Assessment:Thestudentsanswersinthereadingandwritingexercisesaregraded
onaccuracyandcorrectness.

2. Lessonobjective:
AfterlearningtoreadandlistentoEnglish,2ndgraderswillpractice
reading,listening,andwritingEnglishriddlesandanalyzingtextsuntiltheysolvethe
riddlecorrectly.
a.Listeningpractice:Thewritermustlistentotheriddlefromthereader
b.Readingpractice:Thereadermustreadeachlineoftheriddleandmemorizeit.
c.Speakingpractice:Thereadermusttellthewritereachlineoftheriddle.
d.Writingpractice:Thewritermustwritedowneachlineoftheriddle.
e.Assessment:Theteamsareawardedpointsonhowquicklytheysolvetheriddle.

Duringtheactivity,GregwandersaroundtheroomandcorrectsEnglishmistakes.

3. Lessonobjective:
Afterlearningtoanalyzetext,firstgraderswillreadandsummarize
andarticle,accuratelyidentifyingandrecordingrelevantinformation.
a.Listeningpractice:Ifthestudentasksforhelp,theymustlistentoEnglishinstructions.
b.Speakingpractice:StudentsmustasktheteacherforhelpinEnglish
c.Readingpractice:Thestudentmustreadanarticleandidentifythemainpointsand
supportingdetails.
d.Writingpractice:Thestudentrecordsthemainideasanddetailsinasummary.
e.Assessment:Thesummaryisgradedforaccuracy,grammar,andsummarizationskill.

4. Lessonobjective:
AfterlearningEnglishvocabularywords,studentswillpractice
pantomimingvocabularywordsandidentifyingvocabularythroughpantomimes.
a.Speakingpractice:speakingwithoutwordsstudentspracticecreatingand
interpretingpantomimestoexpressvocabulary.Thestudentattheendofthelinein
eachgroupmustsaythewordinEnglish(2pts)orKorean(1pt).
b.Assessment:Thestudentsareawardedpointsforcorrectlyidentifyingthevocabulary
word1ptforKoreanor2ptsforEnglish.
LessonPlanning:
GregsaysheplanshislessonsbasedontheprinciplesofESAengage,
synthesize,apply.Heusesonlineresourcestogetideasforlessonsandtriestomakethem
relevanttostudentssothattheywillthinkEnglishisfunandwillbeinspiredtocontinuelearning
itaftertheyleavehisclass.
ClassroomOrganization:
S
tudentssitinrowsbehindtheteachersdeskandprojector.A

secondsetofseatscanbeaddedtotheclassroomtomakealargerspace.Ingeneral,the
classroomissimilartoAmericanclassrooms.

Textbook:

containsmatchingactivitiesandpicturestohelpstudentsunderstandideas.There
arealotofsampleconversationstohelpthempracticespeaking.Thetextbookiswritten
entirelyinEnglish.

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