McKenzie CO 5 / TS 5: Listening

Date/Time: February 4th, 2:00pm 

Listening Group 1 - Dr. Felicia 

Topic/Skill: Equal Rights Movement

Teacher Presentation: Dr. Felicia began the class by explaining what the listening topic for the day would be. Dr. Felicia briefly explained the Civil Rights Movement and why it is essential to American history. 

Classroom Management: Students worked independently, watching Dr. Felicia's recording on the Equal Rights Movement. They then completed the corresponding worksheets for the class. While students were working independently, Dr. Felicia walked around the classroom, ensuring students stayed on track, answered questions, and made necessary corrections. 

Materials: Computer and Projector 

Student Participation: For today's class, students worked independently on their laptops with headphones on. They listened to a story about the Civil Rights Movement and then completed the corresponding worksheet after completing the listening. 

Feedback Provided: Dr. Felicia walked around the classroom while the students worked. She made corrections and answered questions as needed. 

Lesson Learned: In Dr. Felicia's listening class, I learned how to explain aspects of American history to EFL students. All of the students in the class had little to no knowledge of American history, so events such as the Civil Rights Movement were completely foreign topics to these students. Dr. Felicia used simple vocabulary to explain these complex concepts to students and ensured they understood the cultural significance behind these events. 

Tutoring: 

I worked with my Tutees, My Phuong and Ana Paula during Dr. Felicia's listening class. To begin class, I listened to the video with both students. After listening to the audio once through, I asked my tutees if they had questions about what they just listened to. Since the Civil Rights Movement was an unknown topic to both of my tutees, we had a lengthy discussion about the movement, the historical impact, and precisely what the audio was talking about. The audio was a story about the Greensboro Four, so we discussed what happened during this protest and the impact that the protest made. After our discussion, we listened to the audio again. After our second listen, we began working on the worksheet corresponding to the video. The worksheet asked students to write 5 sentences discussing the audio's main ideas. I worked with my tutees on their sentences, discussing what they thought the main ideas were of the audio and helping them come up with their sentences. As my tutees were writing their sentences, I corrected spelling and grammar mistakes and provided them feedback on their sentences.