Task 5

A day in the life of a science coordinator / teacher:

Focus: On the many roles of the science coordinator / teacher within the school:

Objectives:
For student teachers to:
Continue to develop positive working relationships with both the teacher and the students by
acting as a TA within the classroom under the direction of the MST.

Table 5: A Day in the Life of a UAE Primary School Science Teacher.

Time Activity Notes

7:10 Once my MST arrived she immediately signed in by her

Identification teacher card

Sign in

Figure 1 Signature device for teachers.

MST start to prepare the class for students by writing the

Prepare materials and class date and day
7:20 for students
During preparation period, she met one parent that
complaining about his child notebook, the teacher give
the caregiver her all attention and discussing with her
about his childs weakness

Assembly Students are already stand in the ground floor

specifically in the sport hall to do the morning assembly

7:30 Once MST finish her preparation he went to the sport

hall, I observed that the teacher pretends like a student,
she said the national anthem and performing morning
exercise with the whole students.
 Taking attendance is a must in GEMS school, at the
Taking attendance beginning of the lesson my MST call each students name
and they replay with here or present.
8:00 During taking attendance, the MST was checking spelling
notebook for students and giving them feedback about
it.

Figure 2 the teacher is taking attendance using soft

copy of students list

Figure 3 the teacher is giving Muaad a feedback

about his notebook
They spent the first session doing Arabic Test, its kind of
8:15 midterm test which involve the lessons of fist unit

I notice that Arabic teacher was walking around to

Arabic Test explaining the summative assessment for them, and she
responded for their misunderstanding questions.

My MST was monitoring students for the whole period

and she gave them their needs such as pencils or
sharpener
 Figure 4 students were concentrating on their paper
while the teacher busy to giving who needs a pencil

The teacher asked student to collect their stuff including:

files, books and pencil cases to take morning break
9:15
Morning Break She helped students to bring their box lunch, besides she
gave them the freedom to sit in any group.
I observed that they enjoying eating and talking with
their friends, there was some intervention by the teacher
to reminds them about break time rules and asking them
to reduce their voice.

Figure 5 - here the teacher is informing student about

break time rules.

Figure 6 all of students were sitting with their friends

talking and eating.

The two-next period is about grammar which is

adverbs, verbs and adjectives.
10:15 The teacher prepares the Data Show device to display
English period: Adverbs, the activity which is classifying the words into two
Adjectives and Verbs groups adverbs and adjectives.

As a part of the students involving the teacher gave

students two different roles which is controlling and
answering.

Figure 7 the particular activity that required from

them to sort the adverbs and adjectives.

Figure 8 the student who was the responsible to sort

the words according to students answers

Figure 9 the teacher was giving students opportunity

the share their answers with whole class
 Figure 10 the students was checking her answers
from the board.

Each Monday, grade two teachers implementing an

Special English activity: activity for grade two students called English house
11:10 English house activity activity.

English house activity required from teacher to split up

her students into three groups: paddlers (low student),
snorkelers (medium group) and divers (high learners),
and all of one group from different section gather in one
class

My MST was the responsible of divers learners, she let

them open their book and draw something describe this
Phrase Dont bullying.

It was amazing session, I saw that all of us enjoyed

observing students drawing.

Figure 11 Its
divers learners classroom
 Figure 12 its snorkelers learners classroom

Figure 13 its paddlers learners classroom

Figure 14 Students sketches

The next session was math, the teacher gave them a

lesson about rounding and identifying number using line
numbers.

12:00 She used different kinds involving students strategies,

Math session: line number she asked them to do an exercise with whole class and
individually. However, once they finished she required
from them to share their answers with their groups
member besides her checking.

Figure 15 the teacher is presenting the line number

for the students
 Figure 16 the
teacher involved students by giving t
them chance to solve the whiteboard

Figure 17 here the student was solving the number

line individually
To break the routine from lecturing and activities, my
MST decided to display a video or song for students that
explaining the fossils formation in an attractive way.
Science: fossils formation
1:00 I noticed that made science much appealing and
acceptable for students. That made sense of fun in
science classes.

Figure 18 as it seen that the children watching the

fossil formation video
 My MST and I, utilized the lunch break time to do a
Lunch break: discussion discussion about my duties and responsibilities during
my teaching practice.
1:40
I had a beneficial consultation with experienced teacher,
besides that we determine dates for MST and MCT
observation.

Figure 19 shows the discussion that my MST and I did

it.
Student was having Arabic session, so I sit with my MST
Rest of day: Working on in the stuff room finalizing our works either college or
2:00 till Planning school responsibilities.
3:00
Figure 20 the
teacher is working on
Her worksheet

Hint: its was such a busy and productive day for both of us, we had only one
lesson and its less than hour for break and even that we utilized it to work for
school and college stuff.

Reflection

Observing the noticeable details in sciences teacher helped me to recognize that practical impact
could one teacher created in the society or generation. However, this task contributes to show me
the most necessary element should each teacher have to build an organized and well-equipped
school day which is planning.
As I observed, the teacher creates a lesson plan for each subject that she is going to teach.
Besides, she wrote a note for the duties that she has to finalize it in the specific day. Personally, I
believe that being well- prepared contributes to explain the clear and coherent procedure for
students. Furthermore, my MST was ready to cope with any issues happened during the lesson.
For instance, she taught the lesson on the whiteboard by writing the relevant points from slides
because there was a technical problem with data show device.

Another contributed factor for making successful school day for science
teachers is to perform a high level of professionalism and real
commitment. From my observation, I do believe that taking your
responsibilities as teacher carefully could improve your personal
professionalism which a primary characteristic for teachers. Besides, I
would like to the point that the teacher employed to spent her job day
investing effective strategies and techniques for students. Figure 1 here the teacher was
writing the important points of
each slide.

Consequently, to be the experienced and well-prepared teacher, you must have awareness about
valuable aspects such as having a good relationship with parents. From my discussion with my
MST, I understand that promoting the positive relationship with parents increasing the trust
between them and encouraging the child to learn effectively.

All in all, I learned useful skills from reporting a day of science teacher which helped me to
recognize the role of science teacher within the school.
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