Following lead pointers may help you to present your experiences in debriefing sessions:
Lesson observations Kindly give brief description about:
● How many lessons have you observed?
● State if possible - date, name of the pre-service teacher, grade, subject, topic; ● Your overall impression about the lesson
What worked well in the lesson?
● Formative and summative assessments of student work
● Varying levels of questioning based on Bloom’s Taxonomy ● Oral and written responses of the students ● Active student engagement ● Critical thinking among the students ● Arranging group / collaborative learning ● Individual student expressions ● Examples of exemplary student work and use of technology.
What were the moments of failure?
Your takeaways from lesson observations ;
Your disappointments if any;
Your suggestions for making teaching practice more meaningful.
Mentoring
About your mentee
● If you know her background: ● Her previous student-teaching experiences; ● Her opinion about her teacher preparation; ● Her reason for being a teacher; ● About the school she was having teaching practice; ● Her teaching strengths ● Her teaching weaknesses; ● Her ideas about addressing these concerns; ● About her first draft of lesson plan and your input in it; For example: ○ lesson objectives; ○ teaching strategy ○ assessment plan; ○ activities and resources; ○ plan to help any special need child if any; ○ her uncertainties about any part of the lesson. ● Result of your collaborative planning;
Your post-lesson comments
● How did the lesson go? ● What did you notice about students’ engagement, interactions; ● How did what occurred compare to what you had intended? ● Were there any surprises related to your teaching decisions? Related to student responses? ○ (If applicable) What was the effect of the shift from what you had intended? ● What changes would you make next time in mentoring for lessons? ● Did your mentoring fulfill her expectations? ● Was this mentoring mutually helpful? In what way?
Overall about internship activity
● Did the learning architecture of teacher education context enable your mentoring? ● What constraints did you experience in the process of mentoring? ● Did this activity help you to take a professional stance? ● How could you position the pre-service teachers? ● What can you say about your interaction with teacher educators? ● What insight about teacher education did it help to develop?