Lesson (unit/page) Subtraction - page Student teacher Nawar Rashed

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MST Safeeya Saley School Al Afaq School

Class 1/A – 1/B Date 21 – 10 – 2019

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What standards or LOs were being addressed in the lesson?
How did you cater for learners with special needs, and for differentiation?
How did you use positive reinforcement? Methods? For what?
How did you sequence or scaffold activities so that they built gradually towards the learning objectives?

Overall aim and context of the lesson (that is, describe the lesson’s place in the unit of work. What did
students need to know before today’s LOs were addressed? What topic comes next and how did today’s
lesson prepare students for that?)

Describe
Who is the lesson for?
Where did the lesson take place?
What were you aiming to achieve in your lesson?
What experiences did you provide to the students to help them to achieve your aims for them?

Analyze
Were students excited, always occupied, and remained on task during the lesson?
Why do you think the students responded the way that they did?
How well did your teaching relate to the students’ prior understanding?

Appraise
Explain the nature of the experience from the students’ perspective.
Did your lesson meet your teaching goals? Use your students’ performance on the end of lesson
assessment as support (Give proof in your portfolio)

Transform
How might you enhance student learning of this lesson in the future?
What are the implications for your professional practice of helping students to enhance their learning in
this particular way? (i.e. what skill will you have to develop or learn? What professional development will
you have to undertake?)
This lesson my learning objective was, By the end of the lesson students will be able to subtract to
find out how much more (Do a subtraction sum to find out how many more). I do not have any
special needs students in either of these classes and my only differentiation was to offer low-level
students more support and scaffolding since we only solved the questions in the book.

As usual for positive reinforcement, I used stickers for students individually, medals for students
who arrived first and sat quietly, and the heart rope for the whole class. I use these methods to
encourage good behaviour and to motivate the students to stay on task. I used a PowerPoint for the
opening and then transitioned to the middle by sending the students to their groups.

The students had to know and understand the concept of subtraction before today’s lesson, they
learned how to subtract before from number 10 to 5 and today they are going to tell the difference
and also tell which was has more and which has less.

The lesson was for grade one students in Al Afaq school, in this lesson I wanted the students to finish
solving the book and leave time to review the lesson before the end of class. I achieved the goal by
walking around the classroom offering support for the students and by rewarding the students who
finished the page and moved to the other pages.

The students showed some excitement, but not entirely because they just had to solve the book
instead of doing the usual centres. This was an extra lesson and I wanted to see if I could get the
students to solve the book with minimum complaining. The students did not like to solve the book in
general, and it was because of its formality and seriousness. Most students in grade one enjoys and
learn better through play and activities. This lesson enhanced the students prior understanding
because while they knew how to subtract, they yet had to understand the concept of more and less,
and this lesson provided that information to them.

This lesson to me was successful, because while students did not like the book, they still enjoyed the
opening activity and they understood the lesson with minimum difficulties. I observed the students
and checked their book to see their understanding.

In the future I will minimize the book work during the middle of the lesson, and instead use it at the
end of the lesson as an assessment to the students.