In this online observation, there are two instructors teaching a class of Engish language learners in a Korean classroom. This class takes place in a formal school classroom setting, students are sitting in desks with a partner. This arrangement of the students allows for an easy transition for the students to go from an active listener to active participants. The instructors in this lesson work together to deliver the material working back and forth with each other.
In this lesson, the instructors use a textbook that is accompanied by games, videos, songs, music, pictures, and PowerPoint slides. The material covered in this lesson focus on the simple dialogue between friends. The instructors follow a similar format during the lesson. They refer to the textbook, listen to the dialogue, relate the dialogue back to pictures, then they practice repeating the dialogue. The repeat the dialogue by having students remember the text, if they are correct they receive a ticket. Next, the students read the dialogue together as a class, then finally together in partners. As the lesson progressed the students move from partnered work to small groups to play games.
The instructors in this observation worked very well together to move their students through the lesson. The material taught in the lesson was from a curriculum opposed to the self-designed work of Tanya Cowie in my first observation. The instructors made sure to celebrate their students with both correct and incorrect answers. If a student was correct they were rewarded with a ticket, while a student who was incorrect was still complimented on trying. The most engaging part of the lesson was the communicative activity near the end of the lesson, where the students were placed into small groups for a game. This shift in the classroom brought new energy to the lesson. This was a great lesson to observe the flow from the introduction to the conclusion of the lesson.