watching and observing other teacher´s lessons

Memoria del practicum

4-DIA a DIA en el Colegio de Montgat

 

 

 

I have started my practicum by having an official meeting with my Tutor who is Montse Bulto. We worked in my schedule and she was kind, I must say very kind she made it possible for me to juggle my actual job and the time devoted to my practicum at Montgat.

So we agreed upon coming Tuesdays and Thursdays afternoons. On Tuesday I’ve got to observe 1rst of Secondary and the Teacher is Eva , that with one of the groups and the other 1rst graders group with Joseph , I’ve been warned about this second group as being of  low level and besides having discipline issues with some of the students..

 

I ´ve been with Eva’s group of first graders, and let me tell you a little bit about the whole experience:

 

This is first of la Eso group A and the teacher’s name is Eva. She is very nice and willing to help.

Today’s lesson is about food , they are watching a video about the different food habits of people from US and UK , Eva went several times over the scenes so students could listen to it properly, sometimes listening just one time is not enough.

Here is my observation form and what was observed that particular day (first ob. Day)

The observations included two First of la ESO group the A and The B and they corresponded to the month of January.

T= abbreviations for teacher; SS = abbreviations for students. HM= homework; WB= workbook.

 

Lesson 21/01-29/01	A	B	A	B
How did the teacher address to students	T. greeted students and calls them by first name	Teacher greeted them, but some students are down right disruptive.	The same as stated before.
Presentation of day’s activities	From the beginning of the lesson, today is a video	Under a lot of turmoil caused by students behaviour , this is the other first , the B	Posters were hung on wall, T presented a box with coins from UK Toy food was assembled near by, and
How did T arouse interest	The activity on itself is interesting enough for them	T was busy trying to carry on with the lesson , some of the kids simply stood up and started  moving around the classroom	Of course this brought in some excitement into the classroom.
Type of lesson: productive skill lesson or receptive skill Lesson	Receptive skill lesson	Consolidation exercise	Role play of course, table and table cloth , waiters practicing languages items , pair activity
How are instructions delivered	Very precisely A lot use of the board.	It is like a bumpy road.	Instructions were given a week before, and in this occasion it was a more student centre activity
How are questions by students dealt with	Right on the spot, but if time is needed she expressed it.	T. answered all of them, even from students who just wanted to mess around the activity. Difficult group.
Discipline issues during lesson	Not relevant discipline issues, I’ve heard it is the other group the one with the problems.	As I said the teacher has an enormous patience with this group, but I think some tough handling wouldn’t hurt at all.	none
Use of blackboard during lesson	A lot and a well conceived use of Board With labels stuck with blue  tack to call out for attention	Some students came to the board to write questions but even though discipline issues kept coming.	To some extent but not much.
How are noisy students dealt with	Given the quality of the lesson they ´d better shut up	No comment. The teacher is doing the best he can with very little support.	Most of them kept quiet.
Was homework given and how	Towards the end of the lesson.
Did t move around students checking work	No, she remained mainly at the front row, Scanning students to keep in control,	He moved a lot more than Eva did in her lessons.	She, the Teacher, remained on the front row, for most of the lesson.

 

There was a nice activity in Eva’s class that I want to write about, so it is keep here as a helpful tip : she writes all the letter of the alphabet on a column , and asked students to write as many words as they can listen to next to the corresponding letter. So she plays the video one more time and if there is the P they write pears , potatoes, pumpkins , Pepsi or say a D dinner , desert , B breakfast , butter etc .

Or she writes a chart, like this:

Question: what does Janette have for breakfast?

 

People	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner
Janette		sandwich
Victoria	Chocolate cereal
Alex	Cereal	Milkshake