Observation

Instructional Lesson

Classroom: Observer: Tyler McDougald

Grade: 5th Date: 2/14/18

Curriculum Area: Science/Weather Time: 9:22am

What I notice Thoughts, Questions, Connections to

Methods Classes

- The teacher begins the lesson by handing - I noticed that a lot of the lessons
out the worksheets that would be used that this teacher completes with
during the lesson. The students glued the her students she allows the
worksheets into their notebooks to students to be more independent
essentially create a science textbook. and then allows them to make
- Once the pages are glued in the teacher connections/ask questions later.
teacher instructs them to look over the - I was confused because in class
worksheets quietly to get an idea of what we talk about how make
they will be discussing corrections to mistakes before the
- After looking over the worksheets the student begins to make
teacher instructs them to direct their permanent mistakes but this
attention to the board so she can begin teacher allowed them to finish all
instruction. the assignments and then
- The teacher teaches about warm fronts, discussed errors.
cold fronts, high pressures, and low
pressures, in a more so lecture style. Once
completing the “I do” the teacher moved on
to “We do” she had an interactive weather
predictor activity on the SMART Board that
they did together, this activity led into the
“you do” part of the lesson. The students
began working together in groups to
complete the remaining worksheets.
- After 20 minutes of group work the teacher
calls them back together to go over the
worksheets and to review parts that may
have been tricky. The teacher also
completed the worksheets so that the
students can see her work so that they
could check answers.