This week my focus was solely was to teach the Kids about La Famille.
The Plan of Attach:
I orginally envisioned that we would play a game where we would match up the engish words with the french Words, but I found that this game was as "fun" as I orginally thought. So about half way through the game with my first group, we did rotations the this week I'll talk about this later, I came to the realization that it was a flop; I then decided to scrap the Idea. The second part of my lesson was to have them draw a family portrait of their family in there book; this part of the lesson went over great. Also Periodically I would ask them about their families and I would get varing responces like: "my sister's MEAN!" "My family has hair" (yes i really got that as an answer) etc... I would also engage them with small talk like: " Who are Drawing in your book?" "Can you 'guys' tell me what grandmother is in french?" And of course I would get a couple of grumbles as they were trying to say "la Grand- mere", But little did they know they were actually learning French. Mohahahahahhaha.
Behavior of students (not adults):
I found that the kids were very well behaved. I only had one instance where I had to Keep one kid's attention by asking questions everytime I noticed him getting destracted, but other than that it turn out to be a fairly "smooth" day.
The Rotations:
Successes:
- I fealt that rotation between the group was amazing.
- I thought the group Arrangement work out fairly well. I deffinitly saw difference between the groups that I was surprised to notice.
- Time. We spent way to long with the first group.
- Didn't get enough time with the third group.
- Over all i feel we need to improve this section of time managment because we had similar problem last week. I like the idea of having a eggtimer that will ring when we need it to.
Oh well that all I got for this week.
Ben signing off....
Ben - good comments, especially about the reactions of the kids. I'm glad the rotating stations worked out so well this week
ReplyDeleteI like that you were able to be flexible with your exercise so that when you thought it wasn't working, you were able to change it.
ReplyDeleteI also really like that you were asking them questions that would elicit French responses, I think I'll try to do this more.
Why do you think the kids would get distracted? (fatigue, the kid's personality, or something else?)
I'm so sad I missed this class! It sounds like things went well, and I am looking forward to the next time we all teach. It also sounds like we still need to work out the time issue.
ReplyDeleteI also like that you were able to change your lesson around. The differing attention spans of the kids could be something we think about it upcoming weeks as well.
I know we are not professional that’s why time is our main issue maybe we should refer to professor Ballah so she can give us some tips about it. But so far we are surviving just like you said and more important we are getting better every day by correcting our mistakes
ReplyDeleteAinsi va la vie!!!
ben i like the way you explained everything that happened that day and also how the children behaved. i think to overcome the time issue, we need to have a timekeeper to remind us every ten minute later
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you guys had a lot of fun last week! I think the stations were an awesome idea. Like the others said, I think it was also good on your part to switch up your plans a bit when something wasn't working right. Being able to improvise is important. When each new group comes through your station are you doing the same activites with them?
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