United Arab Emirates

Higher college of technology

Ras Khaimah Women College

Practicum 1b
Observation Task Booklet
Year 1 - Semester 2

Maryam Mohammed Salem Alshehhi

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Prepared for: Ebtesam Al Zahmi & Garnel Desravins
Submission day date: 12-February-2016
Word count: 821 words.
Task: 2

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Week 5 (Feb. 7th) -Task 2 Objective

To observe beginnings, middle and endings of lessons and prepare yourself to repeat the process.
(Tables 3 to 6)
Note: Continue collecting information during the whole placement! Check Task 1 for required documents!

Summary of Tasks:
1. Observe your teacher, take a 5 minute video and use questions and guidelines below to write
about your observation (Table 3). Do at least 2.
2. Observe and complete tables and/or answer questions about several aspects of teacher-student
interactions during the day. These will cover punctuality, teacher response, lining up and how
the teacher greets the students (Table 4).
3. Observe your teacher at the end of the day (final 10 minutes). Use guidelines in (Table 5) to
complete your answers.
4. Start to plan your own teaching of a part of a lesson (beginning, middle or end). Use guidelines
in (Table 6) to do that. Discuss with your MST/MCT and reflect on your work.
My MST didnt want to take video and record.
Task 2: Table 3 MST Observation - Take a video and complete your observation(s)
Use the questions below as a guideline and to write your answers. Include details as much as possible.
Remember to include photos and/or videos (link to website).

Questions

Answers (what did the teacher say or do?)

Preparedness: How does the teacher make sure

that the students are prepared for the beginning
of the day or the end of the day.
Pace and flow: How does she make sure all
students are involved and attentive?

She putted the song.

Transitions: How does she get the students

attention?

She raised her voice and called their names.

How does she keep students attention?

Interactive active and more activity.

How does she move them to the next task?

She said for them that we are going to do.

Behaviour: How does she deal with challenging

behaviour?

Behavior chart.

Encouragement: How does she interact with

Humor.

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She called names during activity.

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students/as a group/individually e.g. praise, selfconfidence, humour, and support?

Task 2 Table 4 (Observing different aspects of teacher-student interaction):

Please answer the following questions, delete the choices that are NOT valid. Answer the open-ended
questions in FULL and CHECK your English.
1. Punctuality ( being on time)
Punctuality
(Being on Time)
Teacher Arrival

Student Arrival

Choose One

Comments

Before students
With Students
After Students
All on time
Most on Time
Several were late

To prepared students for the morning assembly.

To prepare her martials before the class.
The teacher gave students rules of class. So, they know that
must to come on time,

2. Teacher response:

positive reinforcement (What does she say/do?) She gave them an award and points. Also, used a
encourage words.
Verbal or non -verbal / other, immediate or delayed? Please give samples.

Notes: Both of Verbal and non-verbal. The student answers the question during the lesson and become
more interactive with teacher. The teacher immediate after the lesson she gives his an awarded or
points. Also, the teacher said good boy for student who respect and interactive with teacher.

negative reinforcement (What does she say/do?) She told his parents, lost their grades and didnt
gave them a cand.

Verbal or non -verbal / other, immediate or delayed? Please give samples.

Notes: Nowadays, each teacher create a group for the parents students to communicate with them in
WhatsApp. So, she told them if the students lose their grades and else. Also, she sends for the parents
paper that include noticed about the student.
3. Lining up and entry:

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Outside class

What does she say/do? Make a line.

Inside the class

What does she say/do? Sit down, fold your hands on the table, be quite and count to five.
4. Greetings:
How does she get the students attention? Play a song before being the lesson.
5. Important teacher language and instructions. Write these down:
Where is the teacher standing? She move it around the class because they are in grade one so it must to
follow them.
How does the teacher introduce a new task? (what does she say?) She told them that we are going to
do.

Task 2 Table 5: End of the day observation:

Observe the final 10 minutes of the day. What does the teacher ask the children to do:

Review the work for the day?

Give homework?
Tidy up?
Clean the room?

What does the teacher say to farewell the children? Good bye boys and told the students to put their
files in bags.
What does she do? She cleaned the disk and took her materials to the room or putted it at back of class.
How do the children leave the room?

One by one?
Everyone together?
Bus children first?
Other?

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Notes: (anything else that the teacher does or says?) Before they leave the room, she told them who
did the task correctly and didnt make noise. He will be the first one in line.

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