Will CO #1

 This morning, I observed Dr. Rios’ Grammar class. They were taking a quiz today, so Dr. Rios started with a review discussion. They went over past, present, and future verb tenses. It was mostly a verbal review, and Dr. Rios made sure to ask students to provide their input before he gave them any correct answers. He did a great job of providing additional context through funny anecdotes that illustrate real life grammar in-use scenarios. Dr. Rios showed me a fill-in the blank review worksheet that he had given everyone the previous class. He said this quiz would be the only one that focuses exclusively on fill-in the blank questions. Future quizzes will have more writing and short response style questions. Before starting the quiz, Dr. Rios introduced a new weekly homework assignment. Each week he will provide a list of difficult to pronounce words for each student and they will record a video of themselves saying the words out loud. Afterwards, he will create a personalized response video that helps each student correct the pronunciation mistakes they made. Overall Dr. Rios had a great energy level and seemed to make the students feel comfortable. He did really well with blending a friendly, yet professional, communicative style together. At the end of class, he made sure to explain the issues with grading that may occur in Canvas, and assured students not to stress out about their current quiz score because he would be adjusting them. 

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