1. What was the biggest challenge you faced while planning the lesson?

 Trying to determine how to teach something without using your native language while
still being able to convey the meaning and hit the learning objectives you determine.
2. What was the biggest challenge you faced while teaching the lesson?
 Not speaking any English, even to communicate with your co-teachers. Additionally,
asking questions to the class was very difficult
3. What did you rely on the most during your instruction to overcome these challenges?
 Non-verbal cues. Props, body language, chalkboard
4. Was communication with your students easier or more difficult than you originally
thought?
 Easier. There is definitely a universal human understanding of body language that allows
communication through language barriers
5. Do you feel you used co-teaching as effectively as you could have?
 It could have been longer, but we worked well getting the lesson to the time mark and
improvising
6. Do you feel you achieved your objective? How can you be sure you did or didn’t?
 Yes, for the sake of this lesson, it was a very elementary concept. We used techniques
such as modeling and repetition to teach the class. We also did some sort of formative
assessment in asking the group questions.
7. As a student of other group’s lessons, what was the biggest challenge you faced?
 Remembering some of the language when it came to formative assessment. I knew the
concept, but I couldn’t remember the word needed.
8. As a student, what did you rely on most to comprehend what was being taught?
 Prior knowledge in my home language and the non-verbal cues from presenters. Past
experiences with certain foreign language; particularly cognates