TESOL Observation Field Notes

Class Observation #_ENG 107 ___

Teacher

__Sarah_Hynes___________

Date/Time__3.14 3:00-4:00________

Class ____ENG107_______________
Location______Coor L1-34____________

Effective Principles of Observation:

Wipe away preconceived notions before starting your observations.

Collect observations under different circumstances and from varied perspectives.

Take thorough notes, including quotes and details about the setting and atmosphere, and collect
important class documents.

Engage in active listening using a detached observer approach.

Keep systematic track of observations that surprise you or contradict your prior beliefs.

Pre-Class Notes (e.g., what are the teachers goals for the lesson? what are the demographics [e.g., student population,
class size, proficiency level] of the class?)

Peer Feedback
Peer feedback is due before class on Friday.
1. In Google Drive, make three good (rubric-based) comments to each partner.
2. In Digication, Step 8, copy and paste the comments you wrote.

T.P. 10%
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P.O. 15%
Research 15% 40%
Full draft 5%
Peer Feedback 10%
Reflection 10%

Description/Observation of the class

(i.e., what is happening?)

Reflection on/Interpretation of
the class
(i.e., what does it mean?)

She is doing the Peer Feedback (10%) WP2 Rubric today.

She is using a new way to talking about the draft this time,
randomly pick an volunteer and share this volunteers introduction
to the whole class ask student to find out:
Looking find out the past, present, the writers focus

She gave this volunteer for good grades and she will drop the
lower grades for the volunteers paper. So a lot of students want to
be this volunteer.

I learned a new way for how to doing

an example.

She asked a volunteer for giving

better grades to encourage students
become this volunteer and use this
students paper to be an example talk
into the whole class.

She shared this article to whole class

and asked students to find the
introduction, thesis.

Here is the sample introduction:

From penalty to beauty and motivation, the pictures stabbed in the skin,
tattoo, are developing toward a positive way step by step. Nowadays, tattoo

She separate the whole class

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is not a simple ashamed pattern, it is an experience full with joy and body art,
rather just a kind of behavior of rebellious phase in pubertal that against the
conservative convention.
In the past of China, about 3500 years ago, if the officers arrest the prison
who want to escape, the adulterous women, or thieves, they will use the
needle with color to stab the prison's face skin as a kind of penalty, in order
to let them feel shame. That is the most original history in China about tattoo.
And this old memory forms the traditional thinking that against tattoo.
In the end of last centuries. Tattoo becomes a symbol of gangster groups
because of some television work, just like the series movies about teddy
boys in Hong Kong. Although the movies tend to represent the good aspects
such as the strong brotherhood among people, the bloody and extreme
expression way makes most of people against the tattoo. Recently decades,
the main reason of changing that attitude is the celebrities effect.(Thesis)
People want to get a tattoo with certain meaning just like some famous
celebrities. And many people prefer to have a tattoo in English. Having a
pattern on the body becomes a kind of fashion and beauty. The industry of
tattoo begins to boom and many people start to accept it.

students for few groups to highlight

the primary research, secondary
research and interview part. (Using
different color)

From 1996 to 2000 year, there are totally 12 movies about Hong Kong teddy
boy came out. In this series, it describes the normal life of gangster and the
main parts of their life are flirting girls, engaging gang fights and soaking all
day and night at bars. There are a lot of blood and ruthless scenes about the
fights. When a gang fight happens, some member will take off their shirt and
show their big tattoo in the arm or chest, in order to be more aggressive and
threaten. Although the director mainly wanted to show the deep brotherhood
feeling among gangster members, the plenty of bloody and dangerous
scenes left a really bad influence in peoples mind. And so do the tattoo.
When people see somebody with tattoo, they will believe that they must be
bad boys and then stay away from them. The negative effect was so severe
at that time period that the Hong Kong government forbidden the activities of
the main actors in the movies. When Yijian Zheng was interviewed by the
entertainment news apartment of TengXun company recently years, he said
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that: The Hong Kong government didnt allow you to work because you
have a bad image, but I didnt change, why you put an image in movie on
me?
Under the influence by these bad boys, people prefer to against tattoo, but
as time goes by, and the guide of famous celebrities both from China and
other foreign countries, this kind of thinking starts to change. In America or
Europe, having a tattoo is a really common and prevalent thing, especially
for some very famous celebrities. Because they love to express their feelings
or characters in this way. Then with the courage of these super star, some
Chinese young adult starts to follow this behavior. Recently years, the
entertainment news of TengXun company published a report that described
and analyzed the 40 tattoos of David Beckham, the really famous English
former professional footballer. About his tattoo, David Beckham had said:
That is what the most important in my life, I want to stay with them forever.
It reported that: Every tattoo is meaningful, no matter the shape and
picture. For example, in his neck, the Pretty lady is for his only daughter,
as a memory of her 4 years old. The one close to this one is the name of her
daughter Harper. The Man of Sorrows is for memorizing his dead
grandfather. The number 99 in his finger means his happy and magic year
1999, at that year, he married his wife Victoria, and helped Manchester
United win the treble. The company of this report apartment is really popular
and famous in China, that is to say, a lot of people looked through this report,
and in this article, I didnt any criticize words, that means the attitude of
writers is positive and they want to let more and more people know the tattoo
culture. Also, many Chinese people gave their praise, they commented I like
it or handsome for most of times, that means people like his tattoo, without
rejection.
Not only the David Beckham, many other famous foreign celebrities have
tattoos in obvious parts. For instance, Johnny Depp, the famous captain
Jack, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and Angelina Jolie. We have
already seen their tattoo many times either in movies, concerts, or TV
shows. In some public activities, celebrities, especially for female, will love to
will dresses without sleeve or simple shoes to reveal their picture. They wont
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cover their tattoo on purpose, but reveal them confidently, which is a huge
different attitude from that in China.
When people gradually input many behaviors like this, they will change their
mind step by step and then start to follow the new fashion way. The trend
that lead this fashion in China first should also be the celebrities. Many
Chinese famous people get a tattoo in order to indicate their personality or
memory a relationship. Wang Fei and Xie Tingfeng have a same eagle tattoo
in their back waist. And they got this picture when they are dating. Because
this couple is so famous that this thing has been reported many times by
many different media. Even for their different period: when they are dating,
when they broke up, when Wang Fei got married, and when she divorced.
The media really tried plenty of times to let people memory their past. It
seems become a kind of representative of them. Another tattooed famous
compere and singer in China is Dee Hsu. She has a little elephant in her
right hand. She was emceed a variety-comedy talk show named Kangsi
Coming for 12 years, which is her masterpiece. During all the episodes, we
can see her little cute elephant and that is really impressive. This talk show is
very popular that it earned the Golden Bell Awards, which is an annual
Taiwanese television production award, for four times. The reputation of her
indicate that the society wont judge a person by whether she or he has a
tattoo or not and we also allow people have picture in their body in fame.
Many other famous celebrities such like Lu Yi, Angelbaby, Chen Kun and so
on.
After thousand years, inked pattern isnt a shame or penalty any more, and it
wont be a symbol of gangster any more, it becomes a way to identify
personality, it becomes a motivation and a fashion style. Affected by the
influence from both foreign and domestic celebrities, the number of tattooed
people in China is increasing recently years. According to the report by CNN,
an interviewer named Yu Haiyang, who is tattooist, said that: Over the past
three years, the number of customers has doubled each year. My income is
10 times more than six years ago. And the reporter analyzed that: Getting
inked is one way for young people to forge their own identity and mark life
experiences -- bad or good. As matters stand, the development of tattoo
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culture in China is successfully and the it will be prevalent one day.

She asked student to find the introduction the thesis(total is 8) and grade
it.( around 2 minutes)

She also asked this students to grade the essay thesis.

Students find thesis and she asked few question to guide student to
figure out what is thesis, what she want to students write in the paper.

(Pick 6 students) Highlight the Primary research(_ 9 )-Blue

(Pick 3 students) Highlight Secondary research(_9) -Red
(Pick 4 students) Highlight Interview (_9) green
She asked the students find our the research and asked students to find
out the interview. Ask student wh questions, to lead the students get
the points.

Post-Class Notes (e.g., are there follow-up questions for the teacher? does anything need to be clarified?)
From then to now rubric:
WP2 Rubric
Writer's name:

/6 Introduction: The writer introduces the current social attitude toward her chosen issue and then draws a
compelling contrast between the current and past attitudes. The writer provides an overview of different reasons for
this change in attitude and then directs her readers' attention to one very compelling influence that she will focus
on.

/8 Thesis: the thesis is a specific and strong argument about the exact way and the extent to which her chosen
influence affected society's overall attitude. The thesis is easy to find in the introduction. It is concise while also
clearly outlining the writer's big ideas. After reading the thesis, a reader will know exactly what the body contains.

/9
Primary Research: The writer picks appropriate and relevant source material to include in her essay.
This material helps her support her thesis. The writer does a good job in the following: introducing the research,
choosing an appropriate amount of strong evidence from it, correctly incorporating the evidence into the essay,
explaining the evidence, analyzing it, connecting it to her thesis, balancing it with her own analysis.

/9
Secondary Research: The writer picks credible and relevant seconary research to include in her essay.
This research helps her support her thesis. The writer does a good job in the following: introducing the research,
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choosing an appropriate amount of strong evidence from it, correctly incorporating the evidence into the essay
explaining the evidence, analyzing it, connecting it to her thesis, and balancing it with her own analysis.

/9
Interview: The writer picks relevant and colorful interview results to include in her essay. This research
helps her support her thesis. The writer does a good job in the following: introducing the interviewee, choosing an
appropriate amount of strong evidence from the interview, correctly incorporating the evidence into the essay,
explaining the evidence, analyzing it, connecting it to her thesis, balancing it with her own analysis.

/12
Logic: The writer has discovered and presented logical and satisfying answers to the big questions of this
essay. She has considered and answered the most-likely objections to her thesis, reasons, and evidence. She has
avoided making her readers confused by or dismissive of her reasoning.

/10
Organization: The writer has chosen to present her ideas in a logical way that clearly shows readers how
all the different ideas are related. The writer uses sophisticated transitions to clearly show the relationships
between different ideas.

/10
Overall Focus: The writer has chosen a suitably small issue, attitudes, and reason to focus on. The writer
keeps his/her attention on that reason and and does not stray into little-related issues.

/8
Tone: The writer controls the tone of her writing. The writer resists the temptation to state opinions
about the change (e.g. whether it was good or bad). Instead, the writer focuses on explaining how her chosen
influence changed society. She maintains an objective, analytical tone.

/10
MLA Style: The writer correctly provides in-text citations for all sources and a Works Cited list at the end
of the essay.

/6 Conclusion: In the conclusion, the writer concisely takes her readers from then to now, clearly summarizing
the role her influence had on society's attitude. The conclusion answers the questions So what? and Who cares?

/3
Writing Conventions: The writer follows standard rules of capitalization and punctuation. The opinion
piece has a title.

/100

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