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The energy for the both classes started up high but then when the teacher got to the front of the room the first class got quiet while the second class continued to talk over her. To get the classes attention the teacher uses a "Bell ringer" which is a phrase in Spanish that she reads out loud and then the class has to translate. Today's bell ringer was: "A Rodrigo le encanta nadar." Rodrigo loves to swim. Then there's a culture fact which today was: "Pura Vida" a commonly used catchphrase in Costa Rica.
The lesson was on new vocabulary today, the class is learning about foods and meals. Miss Roloff passed out a vocabulary list and had the students get books to go through and find definitions for themselves. Then she went through and read the list out loud in Spanish and had them repeat the word, then she would say the definition and give the class time to write down a way to remember what the word means. I'd say that today the lesson was taught by the students learning the words and then the teacher re-affirming the words.
It was very interesting to see the difference between the two classes, while the first class was quietly working and barely participating; the second class was never quiet even during work time. For the first class they obviously were not involved in the lesson and they were just doing busy work. The second class could not be kept on track and were talking about random things the whole class period. The other thing I noticed is that the teacher did not correct the student's when they did not pronounce the words correctly. Also today at least she did not help the student's to learn the information she simply gave them time to learn it themselves.