I felt awkward presenting this lesson. I plopped the sentence structure and prepositional phrases on the screen with minimal unpacking of their contents-- which, alas, is the mistake I feel most predisposed to as a native speaker. My mentor teacher suggests that I present a little more theory next time. She also suggests that I trust that students have reviewed the structure prior to class, so instead of belaboring the basics, I could plug ahead with an exercise from the book. Good advice.Today's class was chock-full of activities. Students followed directions most closely on the word order and describing pictures activities because these were best suited to their levels. The word order activity was visually appealing, something I remembered from seventh grade English class with Mrs. Straub. In hindsight, I would have explained some vocabulary words in the pictures activity in advance since we had not discussed them previously.
And lastly, a self-evaluation...
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