Latifa Observation #1 Maryam School 3 rd period grade 4

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Strengths Needs improvement

 Gives sts a time limit for the activity.  TR seems very authoritative and not happy to
 Sts were given pair work right from the start. be in the class.
 All sts have whiteboards and EVERYBODY is  A lot of time was spent doing review
involved.  Awareness of time and of st behavior

Competency
Professionalism:
Planning for learning:
Observations
 Teacher shouted at the students to get them calmed down.
 Teacher came to the class on time but had to wait for one class to
leave.
 The lesson had a plan.

Implementing and  The class is very frontal and teacher led despite the use of activities.
managing learning:

Monitoring and  The teacher does not seem aware of some of the students and
assessment: some of the behavior going on.

 This class is a very active class, they have behavior issues. 10 minutes into the lesson, the students
were still settling. SUGGESTION: Use a starting problem on the board to both settle the students and
assess knowledge.
 New vocabulary was presented today but there was no testing of prior knowledge and the focus
seemed to be on the reading of the words instead of the meaning and how they can be used in
math.
 At one point the tr moved away from the front of the room and the sts immedietly calmed down.
 One st was busy all through the lesson, teacher finally came and removed some of the objects she
was playing with, but it did not improve her attention. ( Sulaima)
 Students were all given problems to solve. The work was differentiated but all of the students took a
long time to solve. One of the problems was that too many sts were working on a single problem,
another issue was that the sts are not used to working this way.