Today we helped out in three classes, all of them were some sort of English class.

In the first class we helped students with their presentations about countries they would like to visit.  The groups first presented to us so that we could see their overall presentation.  Afterwards, we worked in small groups to help individual students work on memorization, presentation tips, and pacing.  The one student that I worked with the most asked me for my suggestions and I taught her some tricks.  for pacing, I helped edit her script by shortening parts by simplifying things and by taking out unnecessarily extensive/repetitive parts.  In terms of memorization and presentation tips, I suggested having a PowerPoint slide for each paragraph she had, and to have short notes and pictures to help guide her through her presentation.  In doing so, she can use the pictures to guide her thoughts and also help her classmates with staying engaged and understanding what she is presenting.  I made great progress with this student, we aimed for 1 minute and 30 seconds for reciting her part of the group presentation.  Her initial trial was 1 minute and 35 seconds, and after editing her script, she read the script at a slower pace but there was better emphasis and she managed to finish reading the script in 1 minute and 25 seconds (10 seconds less than her first trial).

In the second class, we did the same game that we did on Monday with a different class.  What I observed this time around is that this group of girls were less active and competitive than the other group on Monday.  Despite what seemed like a lack of interest, this class still claimed to also have fun with this game.  This goes to prove that the same lesson can be received differently by different classes based on class dynamics.

The third class was also working on creating presentations.  This class was researching styles of art and artists.  The one group I helped the most was researching about origami.  They asked my opinion on which thing to fold and research about.  I suggested the origami crane because it is probably the most famous item to fold.  I also suggested looking up the story about the 1,000 origami cranes, as they didn’t know the significance about the origami cranes.  This taught me the significance of incorporating other countries cultural themes to get a better world view when doing projects.