Observation Year 9 SOS

LESSON OBSERVATION

- 11.24 teacher takes role

- teacher asks students to take off their non uniforms

- teacher asks students to quieten down

- teacher offers apples of they would like one

- teacher stands at the desk and asks students if they should be moved

- the threat to move a pair if they continue to be off task

- teacher looks around to count the class and locate missing students

- teacher asks students where their work is that they have from the library

- teacher tells the students that they will need this information from the video

- “some people will need this information, some are busy eating apples so you will need to think and take mental notes”

- teacher gives the context of the video that the students are watching

- students are listening quietly and intently

- teacher is quiet and waits for the students to dispose their apple cores

- teacher starts explanation again

- 11.28 teacher revises what she asked them to do

- teacher starts video

- students are quiet and watching the video

- teacher yells prompts of what they should be thinking about at certain parts of the video

- “Think about what equipment they need, think about what..”

- student begins to talk, teacher says the students name to remind them to watch

- student stops talking

- teacher stands to the side and observes the students

- student arrives very late, teacher guides student to a chair and gives quick explanation of what the video is about

- some students are taking notes while the video is playing

- video is stopped lights are on

- teacher is by the board with a whiteboard marker, teacher asks students about details they would have noticed on the video

- teacher writes the answers on the board,

- some students are writing the notes down

- some students call out, teacher stops them and asks for hands up when the questions are being answered

- teacher prompts the class for answers

- teacher tells student to stop swinging on the desks

- as soon as the class starts to gather volume, she stops them straight away

- teacher helps to organise their own answers into categories on the board

- teacher tells a personal story, students are all stopped and listening

- students are enjoying the story, some smiles

- teacher pauses in her story when students are speaking, students stop and listen

- 11.40 teacher asks the students questions and relays it back to her story

- students ask questions

- Teacher introduces the next video, and gives a little bit of context that it is about

- teacher lists off some points that they need to think about when they are watching the video

- teacher comes in to collect a student, student leaves the class quietly and get the lights for the movie on the way out

- video begins

- interesting videos with good music, students are all engaged in the video

- students laugh at the video, they are enjoying it

- video finishes and teacher turns back the lights, reminds the students down the back to listen

- the teacher says “boys down the back, waiting.” boys stop talking

- teacher goes over the expectations of doing the expectations

- teacher says it is tough luck if you have not done your work, and if you do not have any research to use then it will be the stuff on the board they will need to use

- teacher introduces new vocal - POA - price on asking

- teacher waits for silence again

- teacher goes through the resources they have to use

- 11.47 teacher gives the students 30 seconds to gather their resources

- teacher is guiding the students, students are gathering their things quietly

- students seem excited about what they are doing, a little bit of talking and movement is happening

- students return to their desk and clarifies the expectations “one poster each”

- teacher asks students that have not collected their resources to hurry up

- 11.51 teacher changes voice tone and tells students to turn around and start working

- teacher tells students they can go to the toilet one at a time

- teacher asks student what they need from the library

- teacher lets the students go to the library for todays work and tells the others they need to get yesterdays work done for homework

- teacher speaks to a student about what he has missed when he left the classroom and re-explains the expectations of what they are doing today

- students gather around her desk with questions

- students are walking around and are being warned by the teacher to sit down and get on with their work

- one student is getting grumpy and walking around but is still finding his resources

- grumpy student sits down and works

- teacher is checking on the students and checking they know what they are doing

- 11.59 teacher is guiding the students in their work and answering questions

- students are generally working well and sitting at their desks

- students are yelling across the room, teacher tells them to calm down

- students are getting louder, teacher stops the class and waits for students

- teacher tells people she wants them seated

- teacher tells them to sit down and be quiet

- teacher gets them quiet and tells them this is the amount of noise she wants - NONE

- teacher tells them they have been told many, many times what they need to do

- teacher tells them to use the information that they discovered this morning from the videos they can use that

- teacher tells them they are to stay at their desk and work quietly. if they need to talk, quiet voices. if they need to get out of their desk then they must ask by putting their hands up

- students start to talk straight away and teacher stops them again, reminds them about whispering

- volume comes down and the teacher walks around to answer students with their hand up

- teacher congratulates the students about their new volume

- teacher comments she can see people are making a good start

- as soon as a little noise pops up, the teacher hushes the noise away

- 12.05 teacher notices that two boys are off task, teacher comments that one of them will move so she knows that they are working

- teacher refers to the form book and the better comment it will have now that the students are working well

- slight volume increase, hush to slow it down

- teacher notices a student is working on some old work and takes it away so that she can work on her new stuff

- student helps with the teachers question, she gives him a thumbs up

- teacher manages students getting up out of their seats, and keeps the volume down

- students are working well

- teacher puts a word up on the board when she notices that a common word is coming up

- teacher reminds student in the back that he needs to stay on task, he has had instructions

- teacher walks over to the student and tells him next time to bring his own equipment and that he has wasted the period by waiting for half an hour to borrow some equipment

- 12.13 students are still working but the noise volume has come back up

- teacher is walking around and handing out plastic bag sleeves for student to store their work in to finish for next lesson

- students are working

- teacher tells students to start the big pack up, things must be returned to where they were gathered

- teacher congratulates the students on what they have done so far as they walk up to show her

- teacher hushes the students as some start to yell across the room

- teacher clarifies where there work must go

- teacher stands at the front and overlooks the cleaning up

- teacher has a materials count on the board of what has been leant out, and erases them as she gets them back

- students have tidied up and are returning to their desks

- teacher counts out how many people she is waiting for

- teacher counts again how many people she is waiting for to sit down

- teacher waits for quiet and writes the report in the monitoring book in front of the students and talks it through

- finishing 5 minutes early to explain the report and why the desks are different

- teacher congratulates the students that figured out what they were doing

- teacher has a small pep talk about thinking about instructions instead of whinging and giving up

- 12.23 teacher congratulates the students for settling down and packing up quickly

- 12.25 the bell rings and tells the students to wait as they have not been dismissed

- teacher says goodbye, and reads the report to the class before they go

REFLECTION:

- I like how the borrowed equipment is handled. Name on the board with the item borrowed and then the name is removed once it is returned

- Students are offered a quick learning session where they can get information for the lesson if their homework has not been completed

- ALWAYS waiting for silence before talking

- Students are told the aim of the lesson, and left to get on with it

- Teacher manages behaviour from the front of the room - this ensures that she can leave them to their independence but also monitor their behaviour

- When the noise level gets up, the students are warned and given a little lecture. When the teacher stops talking the noise gets back up, and she hushes them back to quiet while they are getting back to the good level

- EVERYTHING is clarified and explained many times

- I like the counting out loud of people she is waiting for, nice and easy

- The response to a common question: Written on the board so that when the students keep asking she can easily point to the board / students have a visual aide

- Congratulations for their good behaviour

- No growling, just reminders - positive attitude and vibe in the class

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