Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Observation Notebook
Warm up
1:24PM
T- “How was your midterms? Everyone seems so tired! You must have studied so hard!”
S- “There was, it was 17 pages!”
T- “Wow that’s a lot of pages! Well I know you all are tired from studying for your
midterm, so that’s why I didn’t give you guys homework. We’re going to continue the
activities from yesterday’s class. Let’s turn to page 155.”
T- “Go ahead and finish out this activity that we only started yesterday. Work as a team,
help each other out”
T- “Everyone has their workbook out and not their cell phones? Thank you very much
good.
T going around to students to signal them to pair up. Some students have already
completed the activity before class. T going around checking to see if students are
struggling with the fill in the blanks.
Practice - 1:24PM
T- “Okay from it looks like everyone look at the screen. I’m not going to use the marker
board because the markers aren’t working, so everyone look at the screen.”
T- “Ok they already gave us the first answer. Sally what is the answer to the 2nd
sentence?”
S- “Long?”
T- “Yes, even knew employees get a long vacation. Very good” T is writing the answers
to the fill in the blank using Microsoft Word which is broadcasted on the television screen
in the classroom.
T- “Yoon, how about you? Number 3.”
Wrap Up – 1:46PM
Teaching concludes by praising the students on their participation. Teacher assigns
homework due the following week on Monday. Students are to complete the rest of the
chapter using adjectives in the word bank to complete the sentences in the story.
many countries from around the world in the class. The instructor for this class was
Samantha St. Claire. The class is held Monday through Friday for 50 minutes. For this
The topic of lesson was Adjectives. Since the class meets every day, the
presentation of the lesson was given the day before and observation focused on the
continuation of the Practice section. The objective was for students to fill in the blanks of
a story that describes a person starting a new job. Students worked in pairs to complete
the three activities for the entire class. The teacher stopped in between activities and
paused between activities to check answers. During observation, the teacher often used
the students’ previous knowledge, which is used in scaffolding, as well as new supportive
“Scaffolding not only produces immediate results, but also instills the skills necessary for
The teacher attempted to use the whiteboard to write the student’s answers on the
board. However, the markers were not working. The teacher resorted, on the fly, to
Microsoft Word to display the students' answers which was displayed on the TV monitor
mounted to the wall. The teacher wrote the sentences on the word document and referred
to the screen when typing incorrect answer. If the answer was wrong, the teacher
and if it does not work, we resort to a more stand way such as handwriting or use of pen
to paper. In the case of this observation, the teacher used technology as a second line of
defense.