Monica Schneiderman      Entry #4     Date:  March 28th, 2011 Time:  11:00am – 12:45pm Class:  Phonetics & Phonology I         Topic:  N.A. Front Vowels Issue:  Teacher : Use of Visuals and Word Association          Background:  “Phonetics and Phonology I” is a course for third year students in the English major. The primary focus of the course is developing […]

Howdy again, So Mike and I decided to ease into the teaching part our agreement by first having me lead activities. Even though I’ve taught my own classes before, I was TERRIFIED. The first activity I created and led went even better than I had anticipated. The students were involved, and they seemed excited about […]

Hey everybody, Yes, I’m a little late with posts, but hey, I’m here now! Thankfully, I had handwritten my thoughts from these past few weeks. ANYWAY, I honestly didn’t know what to expect the first day of class, but it was really relaxed. I spent 75% of the class time with the other Oral Communication […]

Hi everybody, One of the teaching professional skills that I’m still working on is finding alternatives in designing lessons. By alternatives I mean having paln A or B just in case one activity doesn’t work for some reason and you want to replace it with something more fun or different. However, I could see that […]

As I mentioned in my previous post, I taught an intensive grammar course for 6 middle schoolers. All of them spoke Arabic as their L1. Two of them were of low English proficiency level. I have to admit that it is very tempting to use L1 (Arabic in my case) while explaining something to students […]

Monica Schneiderman      Entry #3      Date:  March 26th, 2011      Time:  9:40 – 11:20am Class:  Teaching Techniques I      Topic: Teaching Vocabulary Issue:  Students Involvement & Participation         Background:  This is a very diverse group of thirty-seven 4th year English majors taking Saturday classes (1 day of class per week). The students differ greatly in regards to age, English […]

Monica Schneiderman              Entry #2                         Date:  March 12th, 2011 Class:  Teaching Techniques I       Time:  9:40 – 11:20am       Topic: Classroom Management Issue:  Teacher à Lesson Plan Structure (I Do, We Do, You Do)  Background:  This is a very diverse group of thirty-seven 4th year English majors taking Saturday classes (1 day of […]

Hi Everybody, I just would like to share with you some aspects and ideas from one of my classes in Iraq. As you know, I completed my practicum teaching over the summer break. The lesson that I will share here now is about the future time. I had 6 students; 4 are intermediate-level in English […]

The Pope, the Rabbi, and the Lesson Plan Outcome One of the things that I don’t agree with some of experts in the field of language teaching is setting finite instructions on how a lesson plan should be taught. The main reason from my experience of studying English for 23 years as an EFL and […]

I’ve posted a lot on here about my full-length solo lessons, but have neglected to talk about the other things I’m doing in my practicum classroom in between those lessons. Each class session is 2 hours 15 minutes. I typically use about an hour each time I go for my lesson, but I always stay […]