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SCHOOL STATE: ___________________________________
Amber Lee
COOPERATING TEACHER/MENTOR NAME: _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Susan Bejarano
GCU FACULTY SUPERVISOR NAME: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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CLINICAL PRACTICE EVALUATION 2S
Evidence
(The GCU Faculty Supervisor should detail the evidence or lack of evidence from the Teacher Candidate in meeting this standard. For lack of evidence, please provide suggestions
for improvement and the actionable steps for growth. )
Ms. Warner has integrated the STEP protocols in the creation of a five day unit of instruction which upholds strategic formative and summative assessments to advance
learner progress/outcomes. Lesson Observation Comments:
Strengths:
•Anticipatory set of asking about “retelling” why it’s important.
•Partner discourse increases language and cognition. For younger learners, a minute might be too long. Try timing 15 -20 seconds for student A and another 15-20 seconds
for Student B.
•Reviewing book parts: illustrations, title
•Higher level questions: What do we use wool for? What does admire mean? What does it mean by “the thumb?” Do you think the story was fictional or not?
•Introducing content vocabulary words promotes comprehension: mittens, wool, burrow, admire, drowsy
•Reading with animation/expression brings text to life, models expressive reading and increases student interest
•Integrating literacy to promote learning goals is high interest, builds connections and
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Observation:
9:45 am: Ms. Brooke Warner began with asking how students are feeling. Students were the learning goals of
“retelling” a story. She asked why it’s important to retell a story. Students answered. She asked multiple students.
9:54 am: T showed illustrations. Students answered, “Sock.” The T said it was a mitten.
10:04 am: The T continued reading and asked individual students what the next animal was (owl). This was the
fourth animal.
10:08 am: T asked the students if the story was fictional. Students answered. The T asked what the next animal to
go into the mouth.
10:14 am: Students would draw/write what happened in the beginning, middle and end of the story
Conclusion
Strengths:
Positive and supportive reinforcement: I love that hand. Do you want to get help from a friend? Good job,
X. Good team-work. (Student safe/centered learning environment by picking a friend to help with an
answer) I love the way, X is sitting, criss cross apple sauce. Give yourselves a pat on the back. You guys
are doing awesome. You guys are doing an amazing job. I love your hand. Good job. Good job,
buddy..kiss your brain. That was an amazing job and a long time to sit. I’m so happy you got that
answer..but..
Classroom management: Eyes on me. Classity class (?) Do you want to take a break? Why don’t you go
take a break? Class, class. Would you like to come back? Class, class..eyes on me. Class, class. I’m
going to wait till it’s quiet. Countdown to get attention. Oh, class class. Keep bubble in your mouth. I’m so
happy you got that answer..but what do we need to do? Eyes on me. Shh..
Anticipatory set of asking about “retelling” why it’s important.
Partner discourse increases language and cognition. For younger learners, a minute might be too long. Try
timing 15 -20 seconds for student A and another 15-20 seconds for Student B.
Reviewing book parts: illustrations, title
Higher level questions: What do we use wool for? What does admire mean? What does it mean by “the
thumb?” Do you think the story was fictional or not?
Introducing content vocabulary words promotes comprehension: mittens, wool, burrow, admire, drowsy
Reading with animation/expression brings text to life, models expressive reading and increases student
interest
Integrating literacy to promote learning goals is high interest, builds connections and meaning
Use of illustrations and visuals to support comprehension and meaning.
Student input, Raise your hand if you would ever argue with a bear.” This allows higher cognition and
brings text to life, makes a connection
Supporting retell by using key words: first, second… and asking student to define “retell.”
Modeling drawing for students provides a supportive visual of expected performance
Concluding assessment,” Who can teach someone? Do you know what it means to retell a story?” provided
an informal assessment on student self-assessment. Kinesthetic engagement thumbs up/down and
sideways is a great way to measure student understanding and “feelings” about performance.
Obs. 2: Partner or pair/share takes practice and should be modeled with shorter “sharing” times for young
learners. When reading about the animals going into the mitten…this would be a good time for partner
share within 15 seconds to tell what animal may come in next. Practice one word responses within
pair/share to allow practice and mastery. These answers and timelines can then, be extended.
Modeling expected student performance. Would it be possible to model pair/share with an assistant or a
student for others to see? This could be done within the lesson or times throughout the day with other
content areas or tasks. Practicing pair/share could be done with any area, such as, clean up time.
Partners could tell each other what they will do to clean their area and then, proceed. After the task, ask
them to share if they did what they said they would do to clean and if their area is clean.
At one point, students were asked to write their names on their papers. This would be a good time to
practice a type of partner communication by asking neighbors/partners to look at their neighbor’s paper and
thumbs up if there is a name on it. This would be practice and scaffolding to pair/share activities.
One aspect that could ensure increased desired behaviors is to allow Think Time. Students need
dedicated time (10 seconds) to gather their thoughts before engaging. This will increase the time to come
up with appropriate ideas and decreases anxiety about speaking at the spur of the moment for some
learners. Think-Pair-Share promotes student to student discourse. This strategy enables students who
may need time to process or think about the question and formulate an answer, the opportunity to do so and
not be hurried along, or have another student call out the answer. This strategy provides students the
opportunity to think and develop answers to the question, articulate their thoughts, participate in discussion,
think at higher levels and become much more engaged in the learning process.
Obs. 2: Sentence stems and cloze activities promote language, increase student engagement and
cognition and supports learner success. Young writers can be supported through sentence stems to
provide scaffolded support for writing. Are young writers able to begin writing with sentence frames that
include First, Next, At the end to support their writing? Sentence stems are intended to facilitate students'
participation in academic conversations, writing and support students to develop the language expected in
school. Sentence frames, starters and signal words can help students be more successful in learning
both content and academic language. Sentence frames provide an opportunity for students to use key
vocabulary while providing a structure that may be higher than what they could produce on their own.
Sentence stems are a learning scaffold that can help students respond (orally and through writing) using
complete sentences. These are a couple of examples gleaned from the internet. There are so many others
that could support young writers.
Obs. 1: Teacher to student discourse occurred in the lesson. Teacher to student is when there is direct instruction and guided
questioning. When the teacher asks one student to answer, this is Teacher to Student discourse. Would it be possible to integrate
Student to Student discourse? Student to student discourse is when a student turns to a partner and shares an idea. This
increases student engagement, discourse, cognition and builds social skills. Instead of engaging students to individually respond to
the teacher, would it increase student engagement to have them turn to a neighbor and quickly share an idea, such as, “Turn to a
partner and tell them what you would do if a frog jumped on your lap. You have ten seconds.” When students share with each
other, they need specific guidelines, timelines and think time first. Give students ten seconds to think of an answer, have partner 1
tell his idea within ten seconds. Then, have student 2 tell student 1, her answer. Increasing student to student discourse, in lieu
of asking one student to answer would increase language and engagement in learning goal/vocabulary.
Real time assessment is necessary to gauge student learning during the lesson. A real time assessment can be done through
student responses, visual cues, kinesthetic cues (thumbs up, sideways, down) to indicate thinking/answers. Students can be asked
to quickly turn to their partners and provide a one-two word response while the teacher listens. When these informal, real time
student assessments demonstrate mastery, the next segment or step toward learning goal mastery can be implemented and
evidenced. Real time assessing students will reflect whether to proceed, continue engagement or back track and review as
necessary. What did the real time assessments demonstrate for overall student learning in today’s lesson.? Which students
struggled, which maintained level of learning needed and which needed enrichment to advanced levels?
Obs. 1: Vocabulary and academic language are similar but, very different. Which words were the academic language and which
were content vocabulary? Have students engage in both types of vocabulary. Students can articulate what she will be engaged
in/learning goals along with targeted academic language. An example is, “I will make predictions.” Engage students in discourse
using both academic and content vocabulary to increase retention and comprehension
It is a pleasure to observe the second lesson. Thank you for integrating effective strategies in support of increased
student learning.
Respectfully,
Susan Bejarano
Susan Bejarano
Faculty Supervisor
College of Education
Grand Canyon University
602.403.7171
susan.bejarano@my.gcu.edu