Observation Task 3: Observing a teacher during a Maths

Lesson

Title of Math Lesson :

Time
Objective(s): to know how to read the clock

Grade: 3

Template For Task 3 Observing a Maths Lesson

Manipulatives
Activity

Time

Interaction

Knowing
the time

20

Betwe
en
both
the
childre
n and
teache
r.

Teacher (activity and actual

Student (activity and actual

language used)

language used)

The time is 8:30

The children will

make the time as
the teacher gives
them.

She will give the

children a time
and each group
must make the
time on the clock
they have.

Purpose / objective of the activity

Clock, white
board

It will make the

children know the
time and they will
understand how
they tell others the
time when they
asks them.

After the Observation:

1. What was the objective of the lesson?
For the children to know how to read the clock
2 ways to write the time
2. Was the objective achieved?
Yes
3. How was the concept introduced?
The teacher brought a large clock and asked the children who will read it for me, for those who
did not know the teacher told them that the short hand is for the hours and the long is for the
minutes.
4. How much teaching was done in L1?
The lesson was in Arabic
5. Why do you think the teachers used L1?

6. Did the teacher use manipulatives? What were the purpose of these?
Yes the clock , for the children to understand the lesson more.
7. Were there any other resources/materials used to deliver the lesson?
No
8. What strategies/method did she use to teach the concept?
TPR
9. Did teacher do whole-class teaching or group work?
Both
10. When did she work with the whole class? Why?
When she first introduces the lesson and when she asked them to read and write the time.
Because if the children worked alone in the group then they will not understand the lesson well.
11. How much of the lesson were the students using the book?
The last 15 minutes of the lesson.