The documents summarize four lesson observations of a student teacher, Fatima Al Shamsi, teaching Grade 1 students. Each observation notes Fatima's competencies, strengths of the lesson, areas for development, and a focus for the next lesson. Across the observations, Fatima demonstrates strengths in classroom management and student engagement. Areas of development include planning more challenging activities, improving timing, and incorporating more hands-on learning. The mentor provides feedback to help Fatima continue improving her skills.
The documents summarize four lesson observations of a student teacher, Fatima Al Shamsi, teaching Grade 1 students. Each observation notes Fatima's competencies, strengths of the lesson, areas for development, and a focus for the next lesson. Across the observations, Fatima demonstrates strengths in classroom management and student engagement. Areas of development include planning more challenging activities, improving timing, and incorporating more hands-on learning. The mentor provides feedback to help Fatima continue improving her skills.
The documents summarize four lesson observations of a student teacher, Fatima Al Shamsi, teaching Grade 1 students. Each observation notes Fatima's competencies, strengths of the lesson, areas for development, and a focus for the next lesson. Across the observations, Fatima demonstrates strengths in classroom management and student engagement. Areas of development include planning more challenging activities, improving timing, and incorporating more hands-on learning. The mentor provides feedback to help Fatima continue improving her skills.
Student teacher’s name: Fatima Al Shamsi Grade: One
Unit/Lesson: 2/11 Date: Monday, 15th. Oct. 2018. Competency (E = Excellent, G = Good, S = Satisfactory, M = E G S M U Marginal, U = Unsatisfactory) Commitment to the Profession
Planning for learning
(Includes knowledge & understanding of content) Implementing and Managing Learning (Includes class management, language and delivery) Assessment Reflection on Practice
Strengths of the lesson
- clear voice and good management skills - used a range of activities (the books and the jar activity) - established good relationships with the students and understands their needs as she focused on the weak students and encouraged the excellent ones. - moved between tasks smoothly Areas for development: - needs to plan more carefully and think of designing more challenging activities - needs to work on timing and modelling the activity to make sure all the students understood before starting doing it. -
Focus for next lesson:
More challenging activity Allocating appropriate/enough time for each task School Mentor Lesson Observation 2 Student teacher’s name: Fatima Al Shamsi Grade: One Unit/Lesson: 2/15 Date: Tuesday, 16th. Oct. 2018. Competency (E = Excellent, G = Good, S = Satisfactory, M = E G S M U Marginal, U = Unsatisfactory) Commitment to the Profession
Planning for learning
(Includes knowledge & understanding of content) Implementing and Managing Learning (Includes class management, language and delivery) Assessment Reflection on Practice
Strengths of the lesson:
- Good classroom management strategies - Moved between students and checked their writing and helped those who needed help.
Areas for development:
- Need to think more creatively to engage the students - Need to vary her assessment techniques to evaluate students’ learning outcomes - Work on fostering students’ recognition skill by planning appropriate activities. - Use hands on activities and challenge students
Focus for next lesson:
- Think more critically about what she does in the class and try to improve/change/replace it in the next class. School Mentor Lesson Observation 3 Student teacher’s name: Fatima Al Shamsi Grade: One Unit/Lesson: 3/10 Date: Wednesday, 24th. Oct. 2018. Competency (E = Excellent, G = Good, S = Satisfactory, M = E G S M U Marginal, U = Unsatisfactory) Commitment to the Profession
Planning for learning
(Includes knowledge & understanding of content) Implementing and Managing Learning (Includes class management, language and delivery) Assessment Reflection on Practice
Strengths of the lesson:
- Reviewed letter Mm sound, how to write it and related words.
- Students were engaged and participated. - Used the jar activity and that was a good opportunity for the students to practise their recognition skills.
Areas for development:
- Needs to implement new activities and challenge the students more
- Needs to plan carefully and think of appropriate activities/resources for special needs students.
Focus for next lesson:
- How can you do it better in the next session? What can you do to overcome the difficulties you faced in this session? What are other teaching/learning strategies you can use to motivate the students and evaluate teaching/learning? School Mentor Lesson Observation 4 Student teacher’s name: Fatima Al Shamsi Grade: One Unit/Lesson: 4/14 Date: Sunday, 11th. Nov. 2018. Competency (E = Excellent, G = Good, S = Satisfactory, M = E G S M U Marginal, U = Unsatisfactory) Commitment to the Profession
Planning for learning
(Includes knowledge & understanding of content) Implementing and Managing Learning (Includes class management, language and delivery) Assessment Reflection on Practice
Strengths of the lesson:
- Good classroom management skills. - Established good relationships with the students. - Moved around to check students writing and knew exactly who needed help. - Well prepared and varied your teaching and learning resources. - Loved the egg activity (letter e) but you need to plan your lesson well, so you can have time to do it with the students. - Areas for development: - Watch the video of how to write letter Ee before class time - Allocate the appropriate time for each activity. -
Focus for next lesson:
- Focus more while planning especially in terms of letter sounds and writing the letter using the provided lines in the course book.