Daniella Sarci FSU TEFL

 My first tutoring session with my tutee went a little better than I expected. We started by going the academic and non-academic questions provoided on our tutoring packet. After we learned a little bit about eachother, I was able to assess her english level. Her speaking was almost completley fluent but I was able to see that she needed help with sentence structure and accuracy of what words are best to use where. We did some sentence building activities where I made some simple sentences and mixed around the word order so she could put them together. After that, we started doing some practice with the past tense and I noticed she needed help distinguishing between the different types of past tenses and how to change the verbs accordingly. For the next tutoring session we will work on practice with the past tense. 

 The class I observed today was a group two reading class focusing specifically on vocabulary. The first thing I noticed in this lesson was how the teacher spoke slower and with more simple language compared to the group 3 lesson I observed yesterday. The lesson started by reveiwing what the class did yesterday and then the instructor explained what they would be doing for the remainder of the class. In order to improve vocab, the students had to work together to find the meanings for words they were unsure of from the previous reading. During this time, the instructor took note of what words they could not explain and instead of just giving the definition, he searched the word on google images and the students found the meaning of the word through pictures. To introduce the next reading activity, the instructor told the students the topic of the article and had them share what things they previously knew. I saw this to be a good way to keep the class engaged with the topic. The cl...

The class I observed was a group through grammar class with the lesson being about infinitive verbs. The teacher had students create a story from a list of topics and put each part of their story on a differnt google slide.  The teacher then gave feed back on each slide and then read theit story outloud to the class. In this class structure, students had the opprotunity to make their own corrections with infinitive sentences and then had practice with pronunciation when they read the stories outloud. Something I noticed was that the teacher didn't always answer the questions but she would have the students work out solutions together. Throughout the lesson, the instructor also went over the purpose of each activity in the lesson so the students knew the importance of what they were doing.