Charmel CO#1

January 13, 2020

10:00 am - 10:50 am


On Monday, I observed the 3A grammar class; which was taught by Sana McHarek. I absolutely loved observing this class. Ms. McHarek was very energized and explained the lesson very well. She reviewed infinitives and started a new lesson on gerunds. She started the class by asking all the students how their day was and fixed some mistakes in speech. She then had the students team up and go over a previous worksheet. The worksheet had the students write sentences using infinitives and when finished they went over the sentences with the whole class. She also taught  the infinitive to express purpose such as in order to. Before giving a deeper explanation of its use, she had all the students come up with sentences. Next, she worked on the beautiful mistakes paper and pointed out the area in which they made mistakes. The students were pretty good at correcting their mistakes once led in the right direction.
For the lesson on Gerunds, she first had students come up with sentence examples, she wrote them on the board, then analyzed them with the class. She concluded by reading out sentences in the text and having students point out the gerunds. She also gave a work sheet named A question for you and had students create questions using the verbs from the text, and asking them to write a response using a gerund.
The main thing I took away from this class is that having more interactions makes the class far more interesting. It keeps students awake and constantly applying what they learned. I really liked how the students constantly used the information they learned as they were learning it. I also learned how to lead students into seeing where their mistakes are without giving the actual answer (considering that these students are advanced enough to handle this method). Overall, I really enjoyed this observation.