Ning Liu CO#2

Listening Class 2-A

Instructor – Candace Walters

She writes the agenda immediately after she enters the classroom.

The activity of the day requires students to listen to the audio clip (which they have heard before in segments), and write the main ideas on the board. This is done by splitting the board into 3 parts, and where the teacher has put questions for the students to answer. She splits the class into 3 groups, where all of the students go up to the board to write down the answers. Of course, this is done after multiple hearings of the recording for Voice of America. The audio recording is 8 minutes long.

During the time where students are up and writing on the board, the teacher goes around class and checks the students’ progress. She notices that the Chinese students (two of them) write their notes differently than the other students. Where the Western students are writing their notes in chronological order from top to bottom, the Chinese students are writing in side by side. This makes it difficult to figure out what part came first.

When asking questions and students do not, or cannot, answer, the teacher guides the students to the answer without actually telling them the answer.

Afterwards, the teacher tells the students that they are going to do comprehension questions individually. Specifically, this work is not homework but classwork. This is because she does not want the students to work together under any circumstances.

When the teacher is talking and explaining, she uses a lot of body movement, with a lot of exaggerations.

She moves around the class to check on the students’ progress while they do the individual work. She continuously asks questions to the students, guiding them to the answer.