St Tr Name: Aysha Shahin Observation # : 1 Date: March 13, 2017

Grade: 1 # of Sts.: 29 Lesson: Weather

Strengths Needs improvement

Tr is very comfortable with her class and speaks
to them in a friendly, age appropriate manner
A variety of activities was seen over the course
of the lesson.
There was a technical malfunction but the
teacher improvised and continued with her
lesson.
The pace of the lesson was very lively.
Acknowledge thinking that is not
necessarily the correct answer.
Not all the answers have to be fed back to
the teacher.
Make sure that you have enough
scaffolding in place, this is only grade 1.
When asking them to make a mind map,
go through the first steps with them: now:
draw a circle in the middle of your paper,
write inside it which weather type you
selected, make at least 3 branches, now
get busy thinking of what we can put on
the branches to represent the weather
Make sure that all the groups are
functioning as expected.
Have sts do more discussion, and less feed
back to tr.
Refrain from telling students that you are
feeling sad or upset with them. `

Competency Observations
Professionalism Tr was prepared and in the class before the start of the lesson.
: Voice and actions remained professional throughout the lesson.

Planning for A lesson plan was prepared and presented at the start of the lesson.
learning:

Implementing A variety of activities and learning strategies were demonstrated in this

and managing session. Students were encouraged to speak with each other to discuss the
learning: topic of the lesson, and interaction with the teacher was also seen.

Monitoring and No monitoring or documenting was seen other than circulation while the
assessment: sts were working

Class size is very large.

For one of the pictures a very shy student answered that the picture showed fog, saying it is
foggy. The answer the teacher was looking for was partly cloudy, but foggy was not incorrect.
This answer was not acknowledged.
Instead of discussing all the pictures, which made the lesson quite teacher centered and frontal,
the sts could have been up out of their seats acting out the weather.
The teacher used a weather song, and the children had heard this before. The teachers body
language, facial expressions and participation encouraged the children to sing along and they
became animated and involved. They were so happy to do this.
The next activity was drawing a mind map about weather. This activity was a little bit lacking in
structure, so the results varied. These children are not able to WRITE comments, but a lot of
them had plenty to say. The tr can capture their words and write them on the paper for the sts as
a record of their understanding and ability.
Some of the student excitement was lost at times when the MST interfered with the class. Aysha
was not able to demonstrate her ability to bring the class back under control.