Observation task 2 - Roles and responsibilities of

the teacher
Focus: On the teacher

Objective

For student teachers to begin to understand the diverse nature of

teaching by observing a teacher for the day.

Procedure
Using the following checklist, observe the teacher throughout the day and
write down what her/his roles and responsibilities were, and how long was
spent on each.

Checklist
did..

What the teacher

Time
spent
2 min

Roles and responsibilities

5 min

Attends the morning assembly

2 min

Deals with attendance issues

15min

morning assembly

5 min

Lesson preparation

30min

First lesson Educational class

1min

Take the learners to playground

30hour

Playground duty

10min

Eating her breakfast

10min

Seating with learners until they

finish their breakfast and told
them the roles for eating in
classroom.
Correction the homework and
give them the their books

10min
30min

Signs in and out

30min

Second lesson development

linguistic
Third lesson educational areas

10min

Take learners to the buses

 Please change duties depending on learning

environment

Did the teacher do anything not on the checklists? Yes

What activities did you do/help the teacher with today? I
help her to order the learners ,she give to me a file to
put the paper on it and I stopped some girls was crying .

Reflection
Write a summary of what you believe the main roles and
responsibilities of a teacher are.

What surprised you?

What shocked you?

What delighted you?