Observation Report - Scaffolding

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The Teacher: Judith Wong The Group: Upper Intermediate to Low Advanced Outreach Students from the New School Practicum course. What I observed: I observed the class on a very interesting day. The class was allowed to go into the Orozco Room, which has several murals by the late artist, José Clemente Orozco. For the lesson plan, the students were given handouts with pictures of the murals and space for students to write down their thoughts or impressions. They were given about fifteen minutes to do so. The students walked around and a few asked questions about spelling and vocabulary words, but they mostly looked around on their own. After this portion of the lesson, everyone returned to the classroom to have a discussion. The discussion was about the paintings that everyone observed. Judy divided the students into pairs and had each pair of students come up with one sentence about the paintings that they could share with the rest of the class. They then wrote these sentences on the board. After writing the sentences on the board, there was a deeper discussion about the artist himself and questions that had been listed. I thought it was an interesting lesson idea, but to be honest I was kind of bored at times. I wondered if the students might be bored as well. As I was contemplating the students’ level of interest, one of the practicum students informed me that most of the students in the class are artists, which is why they thought it would be nice for them to see the Orozco room. What bored me was that the lesson got to be too specific at times. I thought it might be difficult to follow for any of the students who did not happen to be an artist. For example sometimes the language was hard for me to follow. To wrap up the lesson, there was a discussion of vocabulary words. I found it strange because the words were on the board the

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