Joshua CO #3

 Date/Time: 3/11/2026, 11:00 - 11:50

Topic/Skill: Reading (Graphs & Charts)

Teacher Presentation: The teacher used Google Drive to share and present an article on reading graphs and charts to students in the first half of the class. After the students read the article, they were asked to answer questions using graphs in a following question section. Later in the class, the teacher asks students to read an article about a topic a student had shown interest in earlier in the semester and class discussion was held about the topic afterwards.

Classroom Management: The classroom was managed with very distinct sections of time for reading and answering. The teacher had a very firm grasp on the amount of time spent during each section all throughout the class and was up front with her expectations.

Materials: Projector & Student Laptops

Student Participation: Students read articles, answered comprehension questions, and they participated in a class discussion at the end.

Feedback Provided: The teacher's feedback was directly corrective and pertained very closely to the article during the first section of the class. Meanwhile, in the second section of the class where the class became more discussion-based, her feedback was usually through the use of discerning questions that made students evaluate their responses.

Lessons on Teaching Learned: Reading for content and reading for discussion generates two different types of results in students. Some students seemed more comfortable reading specifically for content and were more engaged with the comprehension questions of the first part of class. On the opposite end, some seemed more motivated by the open-ended discussions on reading and were more engaged with the second part of class.