Class on 1/27/11

We reviewed To Be

            Present                         Past:

            I           am                   was

            You     are                   were   

            She/he  is                     was

            We       are                   were                  

            They    are                   were

We reviewed our Pretest and re-wrote all corrections in our notebooks

            REWRITE = REWORK, ask questions make sure you understand all the corrections.

Small group discussions: What did I learn in Mr Palma’s class yesterday? From the student’s ideas we wrote the following paragraph:

            “I learned many things in last night’s class. We discussed the importance of our own experiences and expectation about education. We will be listening to a radio program that shares different culture’s experiences in the American Educational system. We know that through the blogs and other means we will continue to share our own perspectives as we learn more about the history of early childhood education.”

Individually students were asked to build their own lists from the following questions:

Where does learning take place?

Who helps young children learn?

VOCABULARY/SPELLING WORDS

PLACES

Home

Family

Preschool

Library

Community center

Museum

Church

Street

Daycare

Friendships

PEOPLE/PROFESSIONS

Teacher

Grandparents

Friends

Cousins

Sister

Brother

Uncle

Aunt

Babysitter

Homework:

Study all the vocabulary words above: make sure you can spell every word.

Choose 10 and write sentences with the vocabulary word and a To Be in the past. Use all variants. For example:   "In Mexico I was a high school teacher."

First Homework

Homework Question:


Where was Garth Born? 


Email me the answer.

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Welcome to ESL 880

Welcome to your Spring 2011 ESL 880 class.

I'm your teacher Garth Bunse. Please visit this site for reviews of each class.

This is our book for this semester:

Summary of 12/9/10 Class

Whole class discussion of current grades.

Return of Hours by Arrangement assignments. Individual and extended discussion with some students regarding missing assignments and their current grade.

First Student Oral Presentation: Curious George Plants a Tree

Return and discussion of paragraphs responding to topic: "What are three things you learned in Professor Palma's class?"

Students took a practice test. Afterwards the answers were discussed. The professor tried to make it clear that the final would be very similar in nature to the practice test.

Homework: Practice your children's literature selection and study for the final exam.

Summary of 12/2/10 Class

Returned corrected drafts to students. Individual comments
Whole Class discussion of Resume Drafts

Here is a summary of common Problems and Solutions

Objectives should be short: and Don’t say “I want…”

Education: Dates are optional and don’t list school before High School.

Work Experience- list dates or date ranges. Be specific regarding your title or previous titles and the ages of children you worked with. Be specific about the trainings you have attended.

“Social and Emotional development”

·             CPR Training  January 2010

·             MANDATED REPORTER TRAINING, January 2010

Job Duties- Be very specific

Designed lesson plans
Created Play-Do art lessons to teach counting
Wrote my own songs to teach math
Guided field trips

Skills

Ability to multitask
Ability to make children feel comfortable
Make connections easily with children

General tip: Keep it Formal. Don’t say: kids, babies or “I love to work with children”

 Hobbies or Interests

Be specific and tie it to work. Love to go running three times a week
Early Childhood Education Courses: Completed 9 units

·             ECE 210

·             ECE 210 (in progress)

Group Work: Students divided into groups of 2-3. Talked about life experiences that might translate well as skills in a Resume.  They wrote 5 examples. One example from each group was shared with the whole class. Some examples follow:

I have worked for three years providing excellent customer service.
Work in high paced environment providing customer service to diverse clientele.
Experience working with children with special needs.  
Work as Nanny in at these locations with these families


Homework: complete a typed final draft of your resume

Summary of Class on 11/18/10

Instructor demonstrated another example of how to read in an engaging manner to an audience of  preschoolers.

Whole class review of common past tense verbs

In Class writing assignments:

What do you do every morning?

What did you do last weekend?


Whole class discussion of resume types and uses.
Emphasis on different convention of pronoun use and punctuation (often opposite to what has been taught this semester)

Homework: Create a draft of your own Resume

Summary of Class on 11/12/10

Instructor returned corrected paragraphs and whole class discussion/review of necessary aspect of a paragraph.
Introductions (and paragraph stays on this topic)
Specific facts (on same topic). Sentences must have punctuation.
Stays in chronological order.
Has an definite ending
Retains the look of a paragraph (indented and no extra spaces or line returns after sentences)

Individual in class work: Students rewrote their paragraphs and turned into the teacher.

In class paragraph writing assignment. "What are three things you did this morning?

Quiz: from reading of text: pages 139 to 141

1 Did the text focus on positive or negative modeling?
2 How is punishment different then negative reinforcement
3 Write 1 or 2 sentences on something you learned from the reading
4 Write a paragraph on "What are three things you learned in professor Palma's class?"

Homework:
Read text pages 143 to 148 on Piaget