Classroom Observation

- School data
Primary school: E.M N44 School Timetable: 08 09 hs Teachers name: Cristian Franco

- Features School Group

Grade: 4A Number of students: 18 Boys: 10 Girls: 8 Ages: 8 9 years

The aim of this report is to present the facts observed during the days, May 31st and August 23rd in the group classroom 4A.

- Recording observations
On Friday, May 31st, 2013, I attended to E.M N4 school. Upon arrival, I headed to the director, Ana Maria Perretta, with the intention of informing the reasons for the arrival, in order to begin the observations of 4 grade. The director led me to the classroom, where the English teacher has just arrived. Cristian, the English teacher, introduced me to the students in

Spanish language, they waved in a friendly way and the teacher greeted them in Spanish language, too. Cristian began his class, the topic was How old are you? he explained it in short words and he gave them the activity. It was to sum all the numbers within the circle and write the results below. Here are some examples of the exercise

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In the meanwhile, students worked with their activity, it was observed the environment of the classroom. It was a well lit and ventilated classroom. However it did not have any English posters pasted on the wall. The seats are arranged in groups of 4 and the students can see the blackboard clearly. With the passage of time, it was observed that many students did not pay interest on the activity given by the teacher, therefore he decided to leave it for homework and it would be corrected the following class. As a result, there is no development and ending in the class. It was also observed that the group have poor achievements, there was not much motivation, feedback and eye contact, and