School of Education SP Observation sheet.
Student Teacher name: Maja Nowicka Date of Observation: 25/11/2020
No. of Observation: 8/10 Subject (Practical or Theory): 1st Year English theory
Class Profile & Details: 1st year mixed level, 26 students, all girls
Duration of Lesson: 58 min
Professional teaching skills and ability
· What strategies did the teacher use to instruct learners during the class?
The teacher greeted the students and asked them to take out their notes, work and books
The teacher then took the roll
students had to take down the notes from the bored while the teacher is taking the roll
The teacher introduced the new topic to their students
· What personal characteristics did the teacher display?
Confidence
Organised
Control
welcoming
strict
Classroom management
· What were the classroom policies? (Consider seating arrangements, bathroom breaks, roll calls)
Assigned seats
roll call first thing
students can ask teacher for permission to use the toilet
notebooks out on the table
· Consider how interest was gained, rules and routines established, how was student’s attention ascertained?
checking homework - questions about any work that they didn't understand
projecting voice
telling students to pay attention, stay quiet, calling the students name
· How did the teacher maintain appropriate classroom behaviour?
giving students tasks to keep them focused
· How did teachers deal with indiscipline or disruptions during the class?
call on the students, leaving a note on vs ware - if it is series get the year head involved
Presentation of learning content
· How did the teacher introduce the lesson?
powerpoint breaking down the theme - short stories
use of ebook - not all students have books ( students don't have lockers due to protocol)
use of demonstrations for the students to have a better understanding of the tasks
· What teaching methods did the teacher employ?
Questioning
Think pair share
different students taking turns in reading a paragraph
· How many different teaching episodes/activities /tasks were in the class?
3 teacher episodes
4 activities/ tasks
· How was the class concluded?
evaluation - based on a hand out about themes and characters
students fill out a self evaluation sheet and hand it up to the teacher
homework written on the whiteboard
the class was concluded when the teacher announced class is over
teacher thanked the students
· What resources were used during the class?
powerpoint - text based
hand outs
self reflection sheets
ebooks and books
Effectiveness of planning
· Was numeracy and/or literacy evident in the learning content?
literacy, and oracy were present in class
· What art element/ design principle was focused on?
none - not an art class
· Was there evidence of Learning Layers in the lesson?·
history - background of stories and they background
· How was the learning achieved in the class?
students are self assessing themselves
do the students know adjectives, adverbs and simile - meaning and examples
can they pick out descriptive language from a text
· What method of assessment did the teacher utilise to assess the pupil’s learning?
handouts and worksheets
· Were there any cross-curricular links in the content delivered?
none in this lesson
· Did the teacher use differentiation in the delivery of content and tasks assigned?
when a student was struggling/ confused the teacher went over the task and example one to one
Assessment and evaluation of pupils work in class
· What success criteria was utilised to assess the pupil’s learning
questioning
discussion - use of definitions and key words
can the students identify descriptive language in a short story - breaking it down
Any additional comments on what you learned from the observation class?
A very basic and achievable task for 1st years, built confidence and very achievable for all