Class Observation 2

 

Teacher: Manuel
Program: Precious Stone Carving
Time observed 2 hours
Date 2015-07-09

This session was in the second floor in a closed classroom with a group of 22 new students in the specialization of gem carving with ages between 19 and 45 years, this session is one of the first of the trimester and the group is still in the contextualization cycle of the program. The objective of this session is to bring the students close to the world of carving.

The class

It started with the teacher (T) telling his students (Ss) a little bit of the importance of the precious stone industry in Colombia; then T introduced the central activity that was to observe a video from Nat Geo channel about the emeralds in Colombia. It was a really interesting video that showed the reality of the commerce of precious stones in the country and also the unbelievable change in price after a good carving. The video took around one hour, after the video the T asked the opinion of Ss in regards to the video and the career they selected. And Ss gave their opinions one by one.

DO’s

The material used in class was totally adequate for the objective of the class, and I think the Ss were totally fascinated by what they were watching; a warm up at the beginning and a wrap up at the end of the session were very important, and in this session those two parts were very clear.

DON’Ts

I would have included some pre while and after video activities where the Ss could have interacted and shared their thoughts, For example a predicting activity before the video, and some discussion after the presentation of it.