Observation #3 - Curriculum
Please answer each question thoroughly and in complete sentences. Make sure your observations, thoughts and ideas are supported with details and examples when possible. Pay attention to the rules of grammar, construction, punctuation and spelling. Be aware of the words you use and the context in which you use them.
1. Give the name of the teacher, grade level, school and date that you observed. Describe the method and how it was used to deliver instruction to the students.
On October 27th, 2015 I observed Mrs. Shelly Anderson’s classroom. The grade level she teaches is 1st grade. Mrs. Anderson teaches at Fairmount Elementary school.
There was many methods on how instructions were delivered throughout the …show more content…
Anderson to help her put all the worksheets together for that day. As I would handing Mrs. Anderson the worksheets, she would go back in her lesson plan book and double check to make sure that is what she wanted for that lesson plan. Mrs. Anderson also told me, to help her prepare for the week she makes sure she stays ahead on her lesson plans so she has time to go back and go over them a few times before she actually gets to teach that lesson plan. Mrs. Anderson said preparing her lesson plans in advances helps her stay on task because it is easier for her to go back and change them if needed. She also mentioned to me that having her lesson plans done in advance helps her come up with a plan or have extra activities to do if the kids do not understand what she is teaching or they don’t catch on as fast and need extra …show more content…
Anderson was teaching a lesson she would be sure to ask the students to make she they understood what she was going over. Sometimes she would even walk around the classroom to be sure that everyone understood and she could see that they understood the work by what they were doing. When Mrs. Anderson was teaching the students their math section that day, they had a test they had to complete right after. Instead of Mrs. Anderson just giving the test and letting the students do it on their own and her grading it later for the correct answers and figuring if they did it correctly. She walked around the classroom and made sure the students understood what they were doing by going back and checking their answers as they were completing the test. Mrs. Anderson said this was easier for her, because when a student didn’t understand what she had taught she would pull them aside to the front of the room and go over it again and sometimes in different ways so the students could understand it
Please answer each question thoroughly and in complete sentences. Make sure your observations, thoughts and ideas are supported with details and examples when possible. Pay attention to the rules of grammar, construction, punctuation and spelling. Be aware of the words you use and the context in which you use them.
1. Give the name of the teacher, grade level, school and date that you observed. Describe the method and how it was used to deliver instruction to the students.
On October 27th, 2015 I observed Mrs. Shelly Anderson’s classroom. The grade level she teaches is 1st grade. Mrs. Anderson teaches at Fairmount Elementary school.
There was many methods on how instructions were delivered throughout the …show more content…
Anderson to help her put all the worksheets together for that day. As I would handing Mrs. Anderson the worksheets, she would go back in her lesson plan book and double check to make sure that is what she wanted for that lesson plan. Mrs. Anderson also told me, to help her prepare for the week she makes sure she stays ahead on her lesson plans so she has time to go back and go over them a few times before she actually gets to teach that lesson plan. Mrs. Anderson said preparing her lesson plans in advances helps her stay on task because it is easier for her to go back and change them if needed. She also mentioned to me that having her lesson plans done in advance helps her come up with a plan or have extra activities to do if the kids do not understand what she is teaching or they don’t catch on as fast and need extra …show more content…
Anderson was teaching a lesson she would be sure to ask the students to make she they understood what she was going over. Sometimes she would even walk around the classroom to be sure that everyone understood and she could see that they understood the work by what they were doing. When Mrs. Anderson was teaching the students their math section that day, they had a test they had to complete right after. Instead of Mrs. Anderson just giving the test and letting the students do it on their own and her grading it later for the correct answers and figuring if they did it correctly. She walked around the classroom and made sure the students understood what they were doing by going back and checking their answers as they were completing the test. Mrs. Anderson said this was easier for her, because when a student didn’t understand what she had taught she would pull them aside to the front of the room and go over it again and sometimes in different ways so the students could understand it