Rick Shemanski CO#2

For my second class observation I observed the class of Calyn Stringer. Calyn teaches a 3A listening class. Calyn class was very different from Victoria’s class. Calyn started off by explaining the day’s agenda in the very beginning of class.  Calyn informed the class that they would be listening to a long lecture about communication differences between different sexes, male and female. Calyn passed out a worksheet containing vocab words that were to be found during the lecture and students were to determine the detention of the word based off the context clues around the word. The lecture was very long, I even lost track a little. I would have broken up the lecture into two parts and then summarized each half as a group to make sure students were comprehending the lecture. After the lecture was over Calyn addressed the fact that the lecture was linger than usual. She then joked saying that soon they would have to start listening to 3 hour lectures while attending university level classes. This statement by Calyn gave the completed exercise greater meaning but it would have been better used before commencing the activity.

Cayln then passed out a quiz of the lecture. The quiz consisted of four multiple choice questions that were asked via computer with a prerecorded question. The quiz was collected and graded, to be returned at a later date. Next Calyn played a segment of a tv show called New Girl. This segement focused on the different styles of speaking between men and women. Specifically the way women often have a subtext or hidden mean to their speech when dealing with aspects of their relationship. Calyn played the clip then explained the subtexts of the dialogue and then had the students re-watch the clip and then draw new conclusions with their new knowledge of sub text. Calyn ended the class with a brief overview of tomorrow’s lesson and reminder about homework due later in the week.

Cayln’s class was very structured and a lot of information was presented. Students didn’t really have many opportunities to participate but the listening aspect of the class was strongly used.