Savannah Glaves

C&T 491

Dr. Cho & Johnson

24 June 2019

Journal Entry #5

If there is anything that I have learned from the past week is that the first run tends to be

horrendous. Last week, Deja and I were fairly in sync when it came to our lesson, but we had

problems with explaining adjectives for foods. On the other hand, this week we excelled in

explaining how ordering food worked. After a long weekend in Seoul we had problems staying

in sync with each other during our lesson, because we did not prepare as well. Over these past

two weeks, our lesson plans have been exciting to teach and see how creative the students were.

However, we have struggled quite a bit.

I think some of the problems with our lessons have been time management. In the first

lesson, we did not give the students enough time to finish their menus. Thus, we had to give

them time to finish their menus in the second lesson. We used videos today to help them

understand, but I feel like we added too many unnecessary words in our presentation when we

explained the ordering process. It seemed like the students understood what we were explaining

to them without barely any explanation. The extra wording just made it harder for them to

understand. I also need to speak more during the class, because compared to Deja, I barely spoke

at all. I wanted to see her examples of how to explain things to the students, but then I barely

ended up speaking at all to the students. I think the amount of speaking between the two of us

need to be divided more evenly.

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 I do think that we did well in explaining how ordering foods worked, though. We added

videos to our slides, some of which enunciated very clearly for the students to understand. We

also used a few other videos from shows such as SpongeBob that demonstrated the ordering

process, even if they were harder to understand. The videos that were harder to understand we

played multiple times. The students were also able to understand what to do with the worksheet

we gave them even though we did not explain it. We gave it to them right before we started the

activity, and they managed to fill it out and write a review with no explanation. I feel like the

videos really helped them understand what was going on, so we did not have to explain other

aspects of the lesson as much. Those were our best parts of the lesson.

However, I do believe that there is still much to improve on throughout this week.

Tomorrow we are teaching last week’s lesson plan, since our lesson plan was in two parts.

Hopefully by Wednesday, though, we will be able to improve even more by getting rid of

excessive speaking and practicing more. If we do that, I think the students will be able to

understand us even more than before, and our lesson plan will get even more. I hope to be able to

improve as much as I can in the next week as we come to the end of our program in two weeks.