Trisha CO #1

I felt really impressed when observing Ryan Fleming's classroom on grammar. Professor Fleming was good at understanding and communicating with the students in an effective way even though they were group 1A. He kept things very simple and in terms of comparing things he knew the students knew to teach them grammar. I noticed that he didn't refer to anything really outside of the classroom and he showed pictures of things he talked about. He showed photos of a paperclip, umbrella, band-aid and eraser so that the students would know what they were in terms of use. The sentences students generally created were involving those same objects he talked about with them. For example, they would say " The band-aid doesn't keep papers together". Professor Fleming was great at pin-pointing what it was he wanted them to work on by keeping the objects the focus of explaining what the do and do not do. The students then could focus on the correct verb and noun pairs without losing focus.  Professor Fleming was also very good at keeping the students engaged and multiple times they were asking questions and he had to instruct them to wait a second. I liked how he did a thumbs up or thumbs down when telling the students to make a sentence positive  with thumbs up ( do, does, is) or negative with thumbs down (don't doesn't isn't). He was also consistent with indicating if something was correct or incorrect in an appropriate way to them. He would say "yes, good", "I understand", "I do not understand", "Wait, I'm confused" with visual cues in his facial expression. I also realized how much he didn't give them the answer. He would definitely call on all of the students and react with the above statements and wait for them to try to fix it. This would usually work, or another student would help. It gave me a lot of insight on what student-focused looks and feels like.