Journal Notes - Lesson Observation (2)

In the next week of teaching practice, I decided to observe math lesson with my MST. I was very interesting and impressed of how the teacher is managing the class, she had the ability to control all students and never let them bored from the class. I noticed the different strategies/ways that she used in teaching which is made the lesson perfect. First of all, and before she starts the lesson, she has to make sure that everyone is prepared for the day by giving a pre-test, remind them of previous learning, discuss at their tables and show them the information on a poster or anchor chart. Then, she’s asking for whole body listening; To make sure that everybody is attentive, and then she start to give the students mathematics questions to solve, by giving each group questions that depends on their levels, after that she ask them to write the answers on their small white boards, to keep the class quiet, organized and give every single girl a chance to show her answer while she’s checking and observing students. After that, she used “verbal ques, whole body listening, table 1 is ready, etc.” strategies to get student attention, to keep their attention and move to the next task. Another thing is, she knows exactly how to deal with misbehavior, for example she’s using class dojo to take point if they did something wrong, discuss behavior with the students or referral to social worker. One more thing, is that the teacher loves to encourage students: She's using star chart for whole class, and class dojo for individual students, stickers, special seating, encouraging students to work from where they are, encouraging everyone to work hard and do their best at their level, not everyone has to have the right answer on grade level, but everyone has to have the answer or show the work they are capable of doing. And this is what I called "The perfect learning style".