To: Thomas SCHWENKE

Faculty to be Observed During CEA Accreditation Visit - (Jenny Arbai, Zukhra Bachaeva, Edwin Guevara, Yana Kirkeyeva, Melvin Marcus, Semen Mere-Mere, Vicenta Ortiz, Svetlana Vadernikova)
and all staff

From: Caryn Davis, Dean of Academic Affairs

RE: Individual Meeting and Sample Demonstration Lesson

Date: July 10, 2012

I'm excited to be working with everyone at SAI over the last month. I've thoroughly enjoyed my contact with all the teachers and staff. The energy at the Institute is so positive. Anyone coming into the school can feel this. I anticipate that CEA will enjoy being a part of our wonderful school soon.

In preparation for CEA's visit, I'd like to meet with you for about 15 minutes this week on either Wednesday, 3pm-7pm or Friday, 2:30pm-5:30pm.

We'll talk about your lesson plan for your CEA observation/interview. I will also provide you with the student speaking and writing assessments and rubrics you'll need to become familiar with and use moving forward.

In addition, I put together a sample lesson plan to maximize student interaction. Will you take a look at it? We can talk about it when we meet this week.

It's an honor to be working with you. I look forward to supporting you as we move forward developing our teaching practice together.

With respect and appreciation,

Caryn Davis

SAMPLE: North Star Book 2 Reading and Writing

In this lesson, students are interacting with each other for the majority of time. The teacher sets up activities, and models activities when needed, checks for student comprehension and circulates.

WARMER

Start with a short warmer (5 min)

Connect it to your grammar structure and theme. Here’s an example: in NS Book 2, Unit 2, Country Life or City Life, simple past tense is the grammar focus. I saw an SAI teacher play a short pronunciation/spelling game as a warmer. Write a list of simple past tense verbs on the board, regular and irregular, and eliminate the vowels. This could be a good recycling of information about vowels, and then students guess the words and start off using words you want them to learn.

LESSON

Use pages 23-24. Students continue to interact with each other. They use WH questions in the past tense.

Use page 37. Students work in partners and practice reading text focused on simple past tense. Teacher reviews chart and answers questions. Students share answers.

Use pages 39-40. Students can write the paragraph for homework.

WRAP-UP

End with a wrap-up (3 minutes)

Ask some students 1 specific thing they learned in the lesson. They can use 1 word or 1 sentence. No one can repeat what another student has said.