On June 10, 2020, I taught, with my teaching partner, my second one-hour lesson with a group of four students enrolled in an Advanced Oral Communication class. The objective of this lesson was that students would speak about both familiar and unfamiliar folktales and understand their role in society. This was to be accomplished through students learning about local Indigenous folktales related to Coyote the trickster, students becoming familiar with vocabulary related to folktales, students presenting folktales from their own cultures, and students discussing the role of folktales in soceity.
Month: June 2020
On June 03, 2020, I taught, with my teaching partner, my first one-hour lesson with a group of six students enrolled in an Advanced Oral Communication class. The objective of this lesson was that students would feel comfortable and familiar with the student-teachers and the classroom. This was to be accomplished through students learning about the student-teachers through introductions and activities, students sharing about themselves, and students understanding the classroom expectations.
I observed a video of a lesson in an intermediate class in China. The class consisted of approximately fifteen adult students who appeared to be taking the class for business or personal purposes. The focus of the lesson was speaking and listening based on the topic of seeking and giving advice.
This lesson provided a great example of using simple, consistent, and relevant content. Most of the class was centred around the teacher having a cold and seeking advice. He also solicited student topics for giving and getting advice and added the topic of their own English learning. In this way, the content required little preparation but was relevant and interesting to the students.