Observation

Student Observation

Classroom: Mrs. Brooks Observer: Hailey

Grade: 4th Date: March 9, 2020
Curriculum Area: English Time: 8:50

What I notice: Thoughts, Questions, Connections to Methods

Carpet reading time (teacher reading)
Everyone on carpet
Turn and talk
Posing inquiry questions during reading
Uses big paper, whole class discussion, teacher
example
Novel Engineering (character is a client, students
design a solution for a problem in the book)
Group work
Walking around and asking questions and taking
informal assessments
Indirect learning and problem solving
Classes
Read alouds are useful in all grades
The book, Blue, is very deep (polio, “negros”,
wheelchair, President Roosevelt’s death, fairness,
selflessness, sickness, segregation, WW2 with
Hitler, death, religious terms, military)
Setting Expectations
Daybooks are used
Makerspace use
Strong GO

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Questions to Consider in Your Reflection:

 Do you think the teacher you observed established and communicated learning goals, tracked
student progress throughout the lesson, and celebrated success? Explain.
 Do you think the teacher was effective at managing the classroom during science instruction?
Explain.
 Do you think the teacher helped students effectively interact with new science concepts and/or
processes? If so, how? If not, why do you think that?
 Do you think the teacher helped students deepen their understanding of new science concepts
and/or processes? Explain.
 Do you think the teacher effectively engaged the students? Explain.
 Do you think the lesson you observed was an inquiry lesson? Explain.
 What aspects of the lesson that you observed would you change? Keep? Explain.