How To Cheeck and List All Steps
How To Cheeck and List All Steps
Focus: Understanding the stages of a lesson and the strategies your mentor teacher uses.
Use the following table to make notes about (you can attach additional notes):
Body of lesson
Conclusion
Reflect on this information and imagine you are teaching the next lesson in this subject.
What lesson would you plan and why?
OBSERVATION TASK 2: Classroom Organisation
Focus: to observe how the classroom is organised. This is looking at the physical set up of the
classroom and also how learners are organised throughout the day.
Use the following table to make notes about (you can attach additional notes):
Area Notes
Morning routine:
How are children
brought into the class –
settled, role, starting of
first lesson etc
Seating arrangement:
Desks in rows or groups?
Designated seats or
choose your own? What
are the implications for
you as a teacher?
Handing out of
resources: Who hands
out resources? Is there a
particular system? Does
this change across the
day?
Visual literacy: What is
on the class room walls?
Is this referred to, to
support chn’s learning?
Toileting: How are chn
sent to the toilet during
class time?
Job/duties allocation:
Are children allocated
jobs? What are these?
How is this
communicated?
Movement of learners:
What are the
expectations when
moving chn around the
school? (noise level, lines
etc)
Use of Space: What are
the different areas in the
classroom?
How are the different
spaces used in the
classroom?
Outdoor spaces:
What lessons are
conducted outdoors?
Use the following table to make notes about (you can attach additional notes):
Area Notes
Class rules
How are they used?
Behaviour Expectations
e.g. talking, moving
around, hands up etc.
How has your mentor teacher dealt with inappropriate behaviour in the classroom? Describe the
strategies used: