School of Education SP Observation sheet.
Student Teacher name: Maja Nowicka Date of Observation: 20/11/2020
No. of Observation: 6/10 Subject (Practical or Theory): 1st year Geography theory
Class Profile & Details: 1st year mixed ability, 23 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 work and books
The teacher then took the roll - while the she was taking the roll, each student had to say one word from the chapter - no repetition
task ready on the projector
· What personal characteristics did the teacher display?
Positivity
welcoming
Organised
Classroom management
· What were the classroom policies? (Consider seating arrangements, bathroom breaks, roll calls)
Assigned seats
roll call first thing
students could only go to the bathroom if it was urgent
use of phone permitted if it was flat on the table
· Consider how interest was gained, rules and routines established, how was student’s attention ascertained?
the students had a good relationship with the teacher
use of teamwork
Students attention was gathered by starting the class with recap task
· How did the teacher maintain appropriate classroom behaviour?
keeping students busy with their tasks - allowing them to work in pairs
chattiness in the room - all work related
· How did teachers deal with indiscipline or disruptions during the class?
note was left on the vsware for extremely disruptive behaviour - cant take up journals due to the school covid protocols
Presentation of learning content
· How did the teacher introduce the lesson?
recap of a word from chapter when the roll was called
task - in pairs (assigned by the teacher) creating a study note on one topic from chapter
visual aids shown made by teacher
· What teaching methods did the teacher employ?
Questioning
think pair and share
· How many different teaching episodes/activities /tasks were in the class?
2teaching episodes
3 tasks/activities
· How was the class concluded?
projecting the microsoft notebook of each group to show the class study notes
youtube song about rock - students sang the song and they have a group dance
teacher thanked the class and dismissed them
· What resources were used during the class?
ebook
onenote
teams
Effectiveness of planning
· Was numeracy and/or literacy evident in the learning content?
literacy, numeracy and oracy were used throughout the whole lesson
· What art element/ design principle was focused on?
none
· Was there evidence of Learning Layers in the lesson?·
environment and our surrounding was a big layer of learning in this lesson
· How was the learning achieved in the class?
Though questioning at the end of the lesson
Evaluation of power points created by students
discussions
· What method of assessment did the teacher utilise to assess the pupil’s learning?
questioning
notes created by the girls
· 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?
didn't see any - group work maybe the weaker students were paired with the stronger students
Assessment and evaluation of pupils work in class
· What success criteria was utilised to assess the pupil’s learning
do the students know the keywords from the chapter
can the students write a series of notes for the class on one given topic
Any additional comments on what you learned from the observation class?
Giving the students a group project like this would be very useful for art history, having a group of girls doing different artists and being able to share it with the other girls in the class.