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ELL Observation Part I March 19, 2007

SIOP:

Today I chose to observe my ELL buddy in his P.E. class, and wooh! There was no structure at all! When I finally met with my buddy, I just had to ask how the class is run every day when I pick him up for our reading time.  In a way, I was really surprised to hear his reply too. (I know we were supposed to be observing our student..and not so much how the class was run.. but I couldn’t help notice both!) 

My ELL buddy explained that each month the students get to vote on what 2 sports they want to do, and they just do that for that month, (Friday’s being a free day). But none of the girls in the class were involved at ALL or were even dressed out! (That seemed really disappointing.) Hmm….but back to what I was supposed to be observing and on a better note, my ELL buddy was actively engaged with the rest of the guys. That’s at least good. He is comfortable in that class. I know he loves soccer, so you can guess what he was doing today….like every day that I pick him up from P.E.   

Sigh. So for today, here is my SIOP evalution:

I. Preparation: Well…From what my ELL buddy told me, the students previosuly voted and knew what the point of today. (Basketball or soccer…or nothing if they accepted a lower grade..)

II. Instruction: None.

III. Strategies: None.

IV. Interaction:  All of the above. I know he can be shy, but he obviously feels comfortable with those guys, because it is so lax in that class. He just gets to do what he likes, so discipline or lack of interest is not an issue here at all.

V. Practice/Application: All of the above.

VI. Lesson Delivery: Since the lesson is student-based, I suppose the pacing was fine. Not much of a lesson though.

VII. Review/Assessment: The only thing I can think of to put here is that I know he comes out of there happy. It’s one thing he really likes to do, so he participates, and he smiles a lot while doing it.

….Though I wonder what drives him. I keep thinking about that, so I pushed him a little extra hard when we read today to see how he reacted. I’m speeding up the pace. I think he can handle it……I am in such a ponderous mood right now.. haha.. K, I’m going to end this before I keep “philosophizing”. Haha. Tchao y’all.