Peiheng Li CO#2

Date/Time:5/14 1PM to 1:50PM

Topic/Skill: Speaking Group 4

Teacher Presentation: Angel Rios

Classroom Management: Student-centered/ small group discussion

Student number: 15

Lesson(s) on teaching you learned:
The teacher assigned 3 topics for students to discuss one by one in 4 groups. Each discussion took 10 mins along with 5 mins feedback that was provided by the teacher. The teacher acted like "fly on the wall" that walked around the class and took notes while students were discussing. These rules above were talked by the teacher before the free discussion started so that students would know what to expect in this class.  Students were also encouraged to use new words from the textbook. Moreover, the teacher was trying to be funny so that could lower students' affective filters. 
There were a few takeaways from this class:
1, Students could fully participate in the interactional communications which are the key to use productive vocabulary.
2, Through interaction with peers, students could develop the awareness of self-correction. 
3, Since it was a free discussion class, those who are quiet would still be quiet if no one could be a leading role in the discussion.
4, Topics could sometimes be hard so some students might have faced issues continuing talking which led the problem of low participation. 
5,  Free discussion could be level appropriate for high-level CIES students because the goal of speaking is to freely communicate with others. 
6, Making the class fun was important to lower students' affective filters. 
7, Telling students the rules or expectations from the teacher was fundamental because students needed to know how to behave in such a class.