My first observation

I started my observation on Monday, October 26, 2008. On my first day, I met Julie Someone, the head of the Foreign Language Department and Mrs. Ellen, the cooperative teacher. Mrs. Ellen is not a native speaker of English. They are both very nice. So far, I have been in the classroom three times and in each time, I stayed for four hours. Mrs. Ellen teaches three different level Spanish classes and each class period is about sixty minutes long. Mrs. Ellen introduced me to all of her students. The students are very respectful and are well behaved. All three classes are very diverse.
As I observed the three classes, I noticed that Mrs. Ellen uses three different books for each class. She also uses the activities from the book to assign homework and she also used the audio tape from the book as listening activities. She has also utilizes a couple of strategies that I found interesting. One thing that I have not seen in the classroom yet is that students don’t speak Spanish. Another thing that I observed was that students speak the target language only when the teacher reviews the homework. I am very excited that I finally started going to the school because I will be working with students. I am also happy because I will be learning different strategies that I can later implement into my own classroom.