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Assignment 2 (Week 2)
Week 2: Observation of Teaching and Other Classroom Activities

Objective: The purpose of these school-based activities is to get yourself familiar with the
school community by getting to know your classroom, your students, and different teaching
styles and activities performed by your cooperating teacher.

Note: Check Lists (for Cooperating Teacher) for below activities are attached with this
assignment.

1. Find following observation forms and fill them accordingly;

o Observation of Classroom Layout/Set-up

o Observation of Classroom Teaching
o Observation of Classroom Activity/Group work
o Cooperating Teacher checklist for Student-teacher

2. Fill and upload all observation forms on LMS in soft form against assignment no 3.

3. A separate sheet for cooperating teacher is also availablecontaining list of all activities
you will perform at school in second week, take print and get it signed by your
cooperating teacher at the end of week and upload scanned copy with this document.
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Week 2: Observation of Cooperating Teacher

Observation of Cooperating Teacher and Classroom activities provide you an opportunity to learn how
your Cooperating Teacher engages with the students and carries out the teaching process. These
observations also help you to familiarize with the classroom layout, delivery of a lesson, giving
instructions, planning homework, and how to evaluate students.

Activity 1: Observation of Classroom Layout/Set-up

The purpose of this activity is to gather information on how a teacher uses the space in the classroomand
ensures that all the students are engaged.

Task: Sketch the sitting arrangement of the classroom (blackboard, students’ desk and chairs, teacher’s
desk, door etc.)

Example:
Observe these examples of classroom sitting arrangement and sketch the layout of the classroom you are
observing.

Teacher’s desk and board

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Reflection: Based on your observation of classroom layout, answer the following questions.

1. How this seating plan was helpful in involving all students in lesson?

Due to Covid-19 sitting plane is different, students are allowed to sit in zigzag arrangements and one
student is allowed to sit on one bench.

2. Did the seating plan facilitate group work during any activity? (where applicable)

No

3. What changes would you like to make in this classroom seating plan?

Sitting should be in such a way that all members of one group must be closer to each other so that
can collaborate to each other.
 Activity 2: Observation of Classroom Teaching

The purpose of this activity is to observe how a teacher has planned lesson and his/her teaching styles
while conducting the lesson plan (discuss with your cooperating teacher about this activity and request
him/her to provide lesson plan before the start of the class). This activity has two parts. In 1 st part you will
observe the teacher in classroom and reflect on it. In 2 ndpart you will prepare your own lesson plan based
on your observation.

Part 1: Review of Lesson Plan (If available)

Review the Lesson plan according to the format given below.

Cooperating Teacher: ____Ali Raza Gilani__________ class: _9 th B__

__subject: ____chemistry__________
Topic: ________Atomic number and mass number_____________
______________ subtopics (if any):_________________________

Note: Give your comments on the lesson plan.

Elements Yes, Comment (if any)

No
The lesson plan has all the elements according to the Yes
model lesson plan/format (provided to you)
General Objectives/ specific objectives are clearly stated Yes

Objectives are in behavioral form (using Blooms’ or Yes

SOLO) taxonomy

Methodology is clear and relevant to the topic yes Methods used: story telling and using prior
knowledge
AV aids/ Materials/ Resources to teach this particular No
lesson/topic are mentioned
Activity/ Group work is planned (where applicable) yes
Worksheet is available/ready (if required any) NO
Learning sequence/ Procedure is present e.g. checking yes Knowledge about fundamental particles
prior knowledge, introduction, explanation, activity,
homework
Feedback of students (questioning/answering) yes
Homework is mentioned/given yes Write the first eighteen elements and their
fundamental particles

If lesson plan is not available discuss with cooperating teacher how he/she has planned the lesson
before its starts and briefly explain the content in your own words.

Reflection: Reflect how successfully teacher has delivered the lesson.

1. Did the teacher check the prior knowledge of the students about topic? (give example)

Yes teacher asked about the fundamental particles

 2. Did the teacher respond to students’ questions during the lesson? Were the questions relevant to
the topic?

Yes teacher responded the each question.

3. What strategies teacher mentioned in lesson plan to motivate students?

Asking question to students about atomic number and mass number

4. Which aspects of this lesson plan needs to be reviewed again and why?

Assessmet and evaluation

5. How the teacher prepared black board e.g. writing date, topic name, and classwork? Is the
blackboard work clear/neat/understandable?

Yes white board was eat and clean

 6. How did the teacher prepare students’ Homework task? Was the homework relevant with the
objectives of the topic?

Teacher asked the students to write the symbols of first 18 elements and their fundamental particles

7. Observe the notebook of any two students to see if those are properly checked or not?

Yes note books was properly checked

8. How was the teacher monitoring students’ participation in class? (e.g. verbal/nonverbal
responses)

Teacher was near to different groups to check the activity results

9. Reflect on what you have learned after observing this activity?

Teaching is dynamic process and have various methods to teach the effectively

Part 2: Recreate Lesson plan

Recreate this lesson plan as you want to teach this topic. You may use the University format to
create your own version of Lesson plan for the same topic.

LESSON PLAN
1. Subject : Chemistry

2. Grade level/ Class: 9the

3. Text Book : Punjab text book

4. Topic & Sub Topic : Atomic number and mass Number

5. Time duration : 25 min

6. General Objectives :How to calculate the no of fundamental particles

7. Specific/Instructional Objectives: TO know about the protons electrons and neutrons

8. Resources/Materials A.V aids can be used to show the 3D movement of electrons

9. Procedure: question and Answers method and utilizing the prior knowledge
a. Introduction : We know about the fundamental particles and their position in an atom.
b. Teaching Procedures first I will asked to students that what are fundamental particles
and where they present in an atom
c. Student Participation (students will tell me about above question by exploring their
prior knowledge)

d)content: I will tell them the definitions of atomic Number and mass number as

Atomic Number: No of protons present in nucleus of an atom

Mass Number: It os a sum of number of protons and neutrons

 e) Closure/summarizing (how will you end the lesson)

10. Assignment or Homework (write down the number of protons, neutrons and electrons present in
first 20 elements )

Activity 3: Observation of Classroom Activity/Group work

Thepurposeofthis activityis to check both the clarity of instructions given by teacher and students’
understanding to follow instructions to perform an activity or group work.

Teacher’s Instructional skills

Observe the instructions the teacher is giving before starting and during the activity andcompletethe
table.For eachskill,decidehowsuccessfullyitwasachieved, (Clear and Unclear) andwrite your reflection
against each observation.

Clear,
Instruction-givingskills Unclear Discussion points (if any)

Start of activity (explaining the purpose Clear To know about the calculation involve in order
of activity) to calculate the fundamental particles
Use ofsimple language/short sentences Clear Using simple urdu

Voice quality (loud) Clear Loud, clear and polite

Follow up instructions during the Clear

activity

Use of visual aids (where applicable) Clear

Demonstration rather than Clear

explanation
 End of activity (summarization) Clear

Reflection:

1. In case of group work; how the teacher decided students for grouping and also mentioned the
number of students in one group? What responsibilities were assigned to each member of the
group?

Teacher make 4 groups of students and each group has ten students, students with roll number one to ten
are placed in group 1 and next 11 to 10 are placed in group 2 and 21 to 30 in group 3 and 31 to 40 in
groups 4

2. How all the students were participating in the group work? How teacher ensured the participation
of each student?

Students was collaborating to each other and teacher was monitoring the each group

3. Were all the students following the instructions and completing the activity?

yes

4. Reflect on what you have learned after observing this activity/group work?

Group dissuasion is very important element of learning students are free to ask question to their class
fellow.