The teacher talks for most of the class time, speaking for around 10 minutes to explain lessons, give instructions, ask questions, and provide feedback. The teacher asks mostly closed-ended questions about the math topic. Some students show they understand new topics by justifying answers, explaining concepts, and completing exercises without help. Around six students have an opportunity to talk when called on by the teacher, and some students never speak unless the teacher directly asks them a question.
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The teacher talks for most of the class time, speaking for around 10 minutes to explain lessons, give instructions, ask questions, and provide feedback. The teacher asks mostly closed-ended questions about the math topic. Some students show they understand new topics by justifying answers, explaining concepts, and completing exercises without help. Around six students have an opportunity to talk when called on by the teacher, and some students never speak unless the teacher directly asks them a question.
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Week 3. Analyzing Classroom Discourse.
Observe in a classroom, keeping a record that lets you
answer the following questions. Record/write down a list of what is said for 10 minutes during the CORE/GROUP/ACTIVITY part of the class: What proportion of time does the teacher talk? The teacher uses her role in talking most of the time. For instance: when explaining the lesson (10), give instructions (3 minutes), asking questions ( around 9 minutes), solving the some of the questions with the students( 15 minutes) and giving feedbacks to students. So, the teacher talks almost all the time. Time the class for 10 min, how many of those minutes is the teacher talking? 6 minutes.
What types of questions does the teacher ask?
The teacher asking different questions related to the lesson such as, closing and open-ended question. But the use of asking closing question is more than open ended questions. o List all the exact words you hear the teacher uses when asking questions about the math topic (not review or procedural questions) Show how you get the answer? Explain why is it the answer? How we will solve the problem? Why you get the answer in this way?
What evidence do you see that children have learned some
mathematics? Adding without problems, are able to know what is regrouping mean, can explain the concept why we put the tens we get from adding the ones to the tens. What are children saying or doing that shows they understand a new topic? Able to justify their answer, explain the concept, and solving their activity book without assistance.
How many of the children have an opportunity to talk?
Approximately six of the students. o Are children talking only when the teacher calls on them? Some of the students never talk unless the teacher asks them to answer. However, there are three students how always ask the teacher to answer and explain either. o Do children talk to partners or in table groups? The teacher never asked the students to discuss together. o Do children raise their hands to ask questions? What are they asking? Yes, there are students who would like to know more about the lesson they said ( why we get that or can you repeat I didnt get the point). However, some students always asking for permission ( may I go to the wash room, or may I drink water). In your opinion, is the classroom discourse about important and new mathematics? o Why or why not?
I believe that teacher is concerning on trying to explain the lesson