In my observing on Tuesday, September 27, I studied my Geometry class from 8:21-9:08 and my Accounting 1 class from 12:21-1:08. In these observations, I looked for verbal feedback from my classmates, positive or negative nonverbal feedback from them, and how the teacher spoke to the audience. My Geometry class is my less-focused class, while my Accounting 1 class is very focused and eager to learn.
In my Geometry class, there was a little verbal feedback, but not very enthusiastic or anxious. Some positive feedback the teacher would receive was a head nod every once in awhile, but from only one or two students. The teacher also did receive some negative nonverbal feedback, in that some people were working on the due lesson or the next lesson as she would teach. I think that the positive feedback from the students was noticed more by the teacher than the negative, as she was confident in her teaching and kept the attentive students listening and trying to understand the new principles of the lesson. Something the teacher would do was ask questions of the audience to see if the information was making sense to us. Some
…show more content…
The conversation is always contributed to by different students. Is is not the same students, as almost everyone contributes. If the audience finally understands a new idea, they will nod or show some sign of discovery to let the teacher know that they understand. There was a little negative nonverbal feedback yesterday from a student as during the whole lesson, they had their head down on their desk and would give negative feedback to the other students if they didn 't understand a concept perfectly. The speaker did do a good job at keeping the audience attentive to the lesson and I think that the positive feedback did help the speaker keep confidence in what he was teaching. I did not really experience any communication barriers as the teaching occupied most of the class