Julio CO Blog #4

July 7th

Skill: Adjective clauses

Teacher presentation: Dr. Rios started with a review of defining vs non defining adjective clauses. And then provided a worksheet for students as extra practice with the topic. He worked through the worksheet with students and allowed them to provide potential answers to the questions.

Classroom Management. Dr. Rios spent the first 10 minutes reviewing the material, and then spent the rest of the 40 going through the worksheet. He introduced each question and then allowed students to workshop the answers for a few minutes as they reached a final answer.

Materials: Whiteboard, computer w/internet and projector access, document cam, worksheet

Student participation: Students participated by providing contributing to answers to each question by rewriting several sentences into one complex sentence.

Feedback provided: Dr. Rios primarily gave feedback by reminding students of rules and by explaining why answers were correct or incorrect only after completely finalizing said answers. Whilst students were workshopping answers, he only guided them with reminders and confirmation questions.

Lessons learned: When introducing extra practice on an already learned topic, it is important and beneficial to slowly escalate the difficulty of the practice. Especially with a concept that is as versatile as adjective clauses, getting students to break out of only simple patterns and getting them to realize how to actually utilize the grammar structure is important, so increasingly challenging practice is a good way to do that.

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