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Maja Nowicka

1st Year Music - 16/11/20



School of Education SP Observation sheet.


Student Teacher name: Maja Nowicka Date of Observation: 16/11/2020

No. of Observation: 3/10 Subject (Practical or Theory): 1st Year Music theory


Class Profile & Details: 1st year mixed ability, 24 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

  • The teacher introduced the new section that the students will be covering -the doppler effect

  • ask the students to take down the notes that are on the bored while they are calling the roll


· What personal characteristics did the teacher display?

  • Teacher has great relationships with students

  • Positivity

  • Confidence

  • Organised

  • Control

  • welcoming

  • helpful


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

  • students desk facing wall/ board

· Consider how interest was gained, rules and routines established, how was student’s attention ascertained?

  • conversation after roll call - small recap from previous class

  • checking homework - questions about any work that they didn't understand

  • projecting voice

  • telling students to pay attention


· How did the teacher maintain appropriate classroom behaviour?

  • Keeping students very busy allowed for little time for misbehaviour


· How did teachers deal with indiscipline or disruptions during the class?

  • none major, there were no behaviour problems

  • few girls were getting giddy, the teacher has called them out and they had calmed down


Presentation of learning content


· How did the teacher introduce the lesson?

  • recap from previous lesson

  • powerpoint was presented - breakdown of the content

  • intentions were on the ppt

  • class discussion - cognitive link up


· What teaching methods did the teacher employ?

  • working out the equations and telling the teacher what to do next

  • Questioning

  • think pair and share


· How many different teaching episodes/activities /tasks were in the class?

  • teacher going through ppt

  • students asking questions

  • interaction with video


· How was the class concluded?

  • evaluation - definitions, questions in relation to tasks

  • 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

  • Students as resource // questioning

  • youtube video simplifying and visualise the content


Effectiveness of planning

· Was numeracy and/or literacy evident in the learning content?

  • literacy, numeracy 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?·

  • strong use of maths, english as well as comparison of everyday life, local examples


· How was the learning achieved in the class?

  • students were able to use the equation correctly

  • students were able to define the chapter and keywords

  • answering questions and discussions

  • students were able to describe the topic


· What method of assessment did the teacher utilise to assess the pupil’s learning?

  • were the tasks complete

  • can the students give an example

  • did the students remember the definitions


· Were there any cross-curricular links in the content delivered?

  • geography - local bands and bands from abroad


· Did the teacher use differentiation in the delivery of content and tasks assigned?

  • when a student was struggling/ confused the teacher went over the problem 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


Any additional comments on what you learned from the observation class?


I liked the idea of students sitting in the U shape all facing the teacher, good set up for art history or for presentation on the Classroom Based Assessment presentation


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