Supervisor Observation #2

Susan Tellefsen

The lesson this time was for my 5th grade Math students. The objective of the
lesson was that students would be able to create a line plot given data. They would
also be able to calculate differences and totals using the line plot as their source of
data.
The lesson began with a review of their homework from the day prior. I had some
students who were engaged during homework, while other students seemed less in
tuned. While this task is typical of each day, I would like to see how I can make this
more engaging for students. Going forward, to get more conversation going, I
would like to see if I present the work with an incorrect answer if my students will
bring that to my attention and discuss the matter. Maybe if I do one problem
incorrect every other day and have them justify why its wrong and why their
answer is correct, I can award them with discussion points or Trapper tickets for
the school that I am currently at. I think this may be something good to try with my
5th graders in particularly because they have difficulty having accountable talk.
That being said, I did ask the students to turn and talk at about 10 minutes into
the lesson about what they thought we could measure and create a line plot from.
Students were sharing their ideas with each other. This was a great strategy to get
them brainstorming, but I was also hopeful that a student would think of the idea of
pencils-which they did! By having the students come up with the idea, they felt a
bit more responsible for what they were going to be doing.
Another part of the lesson that I found to be beneficial was when we took about 4
minutes (from 14 minutes into the lesson to about 18 minutes) to review the notes
from the day prior about how to create a line pot and the steps involved as well as
the kind of data that we can incur from it.
Once the students were grouped and began to work on collecting the data for their
line plot, I circulated the room and offered guidance as needed. After watching back
the video, I noticed that I tended to stay at the front of the room where a few groups
were while the collaborating teacher circulated more towards the back. Going
forward, I believe it is important to circulate the entire room, regardless of where
the other teacher may be. This will allow me to see how students are working and
understanding the objective.
The engagement throughout the lesson was rather high since it was a hands on
approach and they were collecting their own data to plot.

Supervisor Observation #2

Susan Tellefsen

Image shows students engaged in the activity.

At the end of the lesson, the

students independently created a line plot based off of a chart of data that included
rainfall for different locations. I collected the exit tickets and review them to see
what the students understood and what they may need further teaching on. From
this data, I did notice that some students needed additional teaching with regards
to organizing the data and calculating totals with fractions of different
denominators. This is something we were able to go over in a subsequent lesson.

Image shows a worksheet that I created to be used as an exit ticket to measure students
mastery of line plots.