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Observation Task 5

This document outlines the procedure for student teachers to observe learners with different abilities and learning styles. They are instructed to observe a class for an hour, taking note of strengths, weaknesses, and how the teacher manages different learners. They are then asked to observe a lower-level learner for the rest of the day, tracking the activities and noting how long they focus, interactions with peers, and favorite activities. The goal is for student teachers to gain understanding of diverse learners.

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Observation Task 5

This document outlines the procedure for student teachers to observe learners with different abilities and learning styles. They are instructed to observe a class for an hour, taking note of strengths, weaknesses, and how the teacher manages different learners. They are then asked to observe a lower-level learner for the rest of the day, tracking the activities and noting how long they focus, interactions with peers, and favorite activities. The goal is for student teachers to gain understanding of diverse learners.

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Observation Task 5: Different learning styles and

differentiation
Focus: On a lower-level learner
Objective: For student teachers to gain an initial understanding of how learners are different.
Procedure:
1. For this observation, you will begin by observing the class for 1 hour.
• What do you notice? Does the class have any strengths or weaknesses? Yeas,
there is strengths and weaknesses.
• Are there learners who finish activities quickly? What do they do when they
have finished? Yes, they go to the next activity.
• Are there learners who do not finish a task(s)? How does the teacher deal with
them? They finish it later
• Are there any learners with special needs? How does the teacher meet their
needs? No there are not
• How does the teacher manage learners with different levels/abilities?
2. When you have made your notes, ask the teacher to help you choose a lower-level
learner in the class.
3. Observe the learners for the rest of the day and make notes on a schedule (see below).
4. After the observation answer:
• How many different activities did the learner do? She toke a lot of time on one
activity.
• How did s/he interact with the other learners throughout the day? She don’t like
to interact with others.
• What was the longest period of time the learner spent focusing on one activity?
writing activity.
• What did the learner do during the break times? She like to play alone.
• What did the learner’s attention span / interest during activities seem like? she
like to play on the kitchen area and the other games.
• What did the learner seem to like doing the most / least during the day?

Here is an example of notes from observation of lower-level child:


Time Activity (what is the Notes (what happens during the activity?)
learner doing?)
9.30 Teacher gives out a Alya is working on the activity but is asking her
reading activity to do in friend for the answers. She is finding it difficult…..
groups.
9.50 Teacher plays a game Alya is joining in with her friends and is playing the
with the whole class. game.

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