Formal Peer Observation (year 3 - semester 1 )

Student teacher name: Yasmin

Peer student name: Noura Sultan
Date: 11-11-2015 grade: Year 1 lesson title: Patterns
Strengths
-A good way of getting all the students engaged at the beginning of the lesson by counting the
numbers together while waiting the other students to come in the class.
-Using ICT (a video to introduce the new lesson).
-Using positive reinforcement to encourage the students.
-Asking the students questions if they got things wrong (ex: when you asked them to find patterns
around the class and they found a wrong pattern you asked them to give reasons why it's not a
pattern).
-Linking the title of the lesson with the classroom environment which is a kind of linking it with
real life experience and it helped the students to understand more.
-After investigating the different patterns around the class, you told them the main rule of patterns
which is it should be repeated.
-Send the groups one by one after giving them the activity's instructions.
-The worksheet size was large enough which allowed the students to have enough space to do the
activity.
-Different activities for different levels.
-Allow the students to discover and investigate the activity without giving them very detailed
instructions which helped you to see their overall knowledge about patterns.
-Moving around and check the students while working.
-Helping the students to fix their work without letting them feel that they have done a mistake.
-Well managed class.
-Stop the students from doing the activity and send them group by group quietly to the carpet.
-Ask some of the students to show and present their work to the other students which was a way of
encouraging and supporting their work.
Suggestions
-Prepare an extra task for the higher level students in case they finished early.
Teacher students comment
-Well done and planned lesson, I enjoyed it a lot (: