Sunday, April 19, 2015

Third observation



My third Observation was short, it only lasted half an hour. I was surprised because my first and second observation was for an hour. The tutor greets the students and introduced me as an observer. When she started with the first paper and wanted to correct a few errors, she couldn't because she didn't have a pen, so she asks for a pen. I think it was very unprofessional from her not to have a pen on her. She also said that she preferred any color pen but red, then she explained that she hated when teacher graded papers with a red pen. I still don't see where she wanted to go when she said that, but for me I don't care if is a red or purple pen, it's a pen. She helped the first student with grammar and said that she was just a writer not a linguistic teacher, when the student asked her if her work was perfectly writing. The tutor told her to include quotations marks on a very important sentence and overall she said that her paper was ok, to just add a few more lines so it would be longer.

The second student didn't have the teacher's instructions and told her she had them but on her email, so she asks her to pull out his phone and showed her. The tutor didn't read out loud any of the students work and when she tried to explain the second student what she did wrong; she put her hand on her sweater as if she was cold. I still think that's unprofessional but she never stopped explaining her point. As everyone knows phones are very distracting, while she was helping the first student the second student was on her phone and she was texting. The tutor didn't say or do anything about it. After 20minutes one of the students left because she was done with her paper, and then the second student left after 10 minutes. Everything happens really fast I didn't have the change to observe her that much. She did gave really good feedback to the students I didn't see any confused expression on their faces.
 

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