Name____Makayla Triplett____________

Teacher Observation
Teacher observed: Mrs. Marcia Gibson School: Fall Creek Intermediate
Subject of lesson: Social Studies Date: 04/18/18 Time: 1:30- 2:30

1. What were the goals and objectives of the lesson? How did you know
what they were?
The objective of this lesson is to understand the political and
economic ideas that led to the Revolutionary War. She started off
the entire lesson by writing the objective on the board and reading it
out loud to the class.

2. How did the teacher begin the lesson? (Review of previous material,
motivational activity, etc.) Explain.
She began the lesson by reviewing previous material. She went
over what they had discussed yesterday which was the 1700 and
the three branches of government. She also went over the French
and Indian War, The Sugar Act, Townsend Act, Stamp Act and the
Boston Tea Party that they had organized into a time line of events.

3. Describe the activities used in the lesson in order.

Displayed the objective for the lesson at the front of the room and
then asked the class what would be the best nonfiction text feature
to organize their ideas. To keep the students attention, she often
brought up review questions. She then began a game where the
students had to pick up a cup with a question in it and they were to
take it back to their group and they trued to answer as many
questions as they could. After the game, the students used what
they had reviewed and learned to help them organize the causes of
the Revolutionary War into three categories; Political, Religious,
and Economic. She finished the lesson by asking what things the
students had taken away from the lesson.

4. Describe the teacher’s use of time. (How much time was used for each
part of the lesson?)
Mrs. Gibson had everything planned out almost by the minute. She
put 20 minutes aside to review and ask the students what kind of
graph they thought they would want to use to organize their
thoughts. She then allowed the students about 20 minutes for their
game and 20 minutes to discuss the answers to the game, add
ideas to the chart and ask what they had learned from the lesson.
5. Describe the teacher’s classroom management /discipline style.
The class is very inquisitive so they question everything. Mrs.
Gibson has to reign them back in quite often so that they stay on
task. She uses a lot of attention keeping tools like snapping if you
agree, standing if you disagree, and asking for them to discuss with
their group.

6. How does this teacher encourage students to achieve?

Mrs. Gibson’s class is very interactive and asks for lots of student
opinions so it is easy for her to encourage her class by asking for
their thoughts on a matter. She is very kind so she always positively
critiqued any answers students gave and add to them to benefit the
lesson.

7. What does this teacher do that is unique?

She relates ideas back to previous material as often as she can. In
each lesson, she ties something in to the current lesson and she
does it in a way that makes sense and helps with understanding.

8. What ideas did you pick up on from observing this teacher that you could
use?
She let the students evaluate their performance in groups and
decide together what caused them to preform inefficiently or
effectively. It gives the students the responsibility to see what their
faults were. She also had clever sayings to get the classes’
attention.