Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Journal Notes - Lesson Observation (3)


On Monday, November 2, 2015. At the beginning of the day, I heard that the principal is coming to observe the science class with my mentor. So, I decided to observe this lesson too, because I’m sure that the teacher will do her best in this lesson. At the beginning of the class, my teacher presents a PowerPoint about the moon, she used “Google the word…” strategy for the new words; The teacher has to say/spell the word three times, explain the word until the students understand it, show pictures or videos and then ask the students to say/spell the word. I believe that this is very important strategy, because it’s teach the students how to spell the new words and understand them. When the teacher finished presenting the moon PowerPoint (which was about the shapes of the moon), she asked 7 students to come to her, she gives each one of them one different name of the shapes of the moon and let them hold the paper and stay in front of the class so every class can see them, and then she gives the rest of the students pictures of the different shapes of the moon, and they have to see which shape of the moon does their picture show, know the name of the shape and then go to choose which student have that shape/name, and stand in her group. It was really amazing seeing the girls work together, help each other and try to do the right thing by standing in the right place. One thing that I didn’t like about the lesson, is that when the girls start to move around the class and try to find their place, the class was very annoying and the teacher find it hard to let them calm down and stop moving/talking, even if they were finished.

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