Observation At Art High-school Part 2

Date: November 28 2207
Time: from 9:00 to 12:30
Total time:3 hours and 30 minutes
Teacher Yanick Ranieri
Class: French
Level: (first class) Freshmen and sophomore

Pro-shop

Level: (second class) Senior



First class
At the begging of the class Teacher Ranieri explain that the students will have a test the following class and that they will get to do a review of the chapter and the students will get to ask questions about things that they have doubts about it. I got to see that Teacher Ranieri speaks French in regular situation with her students, when they came in, when they were leaving or when she wanted to ask question out side the scholar material. Also the students like to answer in French and ask how to say some words in French to just use it between them.
The students were asked to do a group exercise, the group as composed by two students, after each group was asked to come up by the teacher desk and read at loud what they did. In this exercises was asked to create together a dialogue and work with elements that students were already familiar with. I loved that all the students were doing like a little show full with expressions and using real material, I thought is was very creative. It was very cute and funny to see. Some kids thought outside of the box asking different question and using different material and vocabulary.
After this exercises teacher Ranieri asked to repeat after her a form of verb in present tense in French followed by a video in French. The video discussed about what French students do during the weekend. The video was no longer than 10 minutes. One the video ended teacher Ranieri asked to explain what they saw ans heard and get into particular vocabularies that were said during the video and at the end she asked to compare the French students to the American students and discuss the similar things that they do and have in common also the main differences.

Pro-shop it's discussed, between teachers, about scholar issues and curriculum related as in the past they discussed the attendance police. This pro-shop's discussion was based on the importance of open-ended questions. We first took a look of the Bloom's taxonomy and they described what is is and the importance of each element as knowledge, comprehension and application and so on until to get to the last point evaluation. The first question raised was if the position of synthesis and evaluation should be switched because synthesis that is a phase where the teacher will ask to create something with the material and knowledge giving to them should been the last step instead of the evaluation that would be more when students evaluate their actions and choices. Some people argued that these 2 phases (evaluation and synthesis) can even happens at the same time and other not. The main point at the end was to understand the importance of the taxonomy and to make sure that each step is done before the professor get to another point. For example do not give exercises if students didn't understand the rule because that would confuse them even more.
A sentence that I like to take with me from this pro-shop is that teacher does not teach what to think but how to think, so the teacher is a role of direction for the students, the teacher would assessing the level of thinking. After have discussed that taxonomy, we moved to read a paper about open-ended question, each person include the students (there were two more students with me at the pro-shop) would read three pageseveryone had different pages and after a few minutes we would have to reassume our pages and after that we would give a characteristic to what it is an open-ended question.
After the list was passed around some sheets with different type of questions, we need to identify if i was an open-ended question or not and to show two types of open-ended question based on the future program for December for each teacher.
Second class:
This class was composed of seven students and it was pretty quiet respect to the rest of the classes that I got to observe. Professor Ranieri distributes the book and asked to do a group exercises and after review orally the work done, in the exercise was asked to create a family situation and after they would interpreted.
I asked teacher Ranieri later if she thought that group exercise were better than working alone and she said that with group exercise they will get to work together and ask each other about things they have doubts about , so they would work better together as long it doesn’t create too much chatting, it seems to work fine in her classes.
Once done the exercise, they did some exercise orally together that discussed "must" connected with actions and vocabularies, and before the end of the class they got to read and found out more information about Switzerland, the language, the culture, the economic system and more.