MCT/MST Formative Observation Report Form

The MST (Mentor School Teacher) and the MCT (Mentor College Teacher) will use this form to formally
observe the trainee’s performance and to give formative feedback based on the selected teaching
competencies.

Student name: Wadha Student ID:

MCT name: Paul Leslie Course code: 4909

MST name: Placement Atfal Al Hilal

School:

Subject: KG2 Date: 10 March

Please see the TP Rubric – after this table – for help to complete.
Professional Dispositions
Strengths:
Communicating very well and lots of evidence of participating in research project.
Areas for improvement:
Please maintain your portfolio – includes documentation from your work with your MST

Planning for Teaching & Learning

Strengths:
Please see the plan for comments – It looks very strong
Areas for improvement:
See the plan for comments

Managing Teaching & Learning

Strengths:
Seems to be able to maintain class order – implementing the research plan with the reward board and
tracking two students.
Areas for improvement:
How might you be able to use your lesson planning and classroom organization to influence classroom
behaviour?

Implementing Learning

1
 Strengths:
Able to work through the plan and the various components in a very timely manner.
Areas for improvement:
Always try to use your classroom planning as a means of engagement. For example, when you are playing
the game, make sure that they are fully engaged in the game. They were able to sit in circles and so
immediately they were able to talk to each other and play around.

Assessing Learning
Strengths:
Lots of checking and calling of names. They also produced quite a bit of written work and crafts so there is
ample evidence to use to mark progress.
The self-assessment at the end was quite interesting! It seems very understandable from the students’
perspective!
“Learning includes understanding that there are consequences for our actions.
Areas for improvement:
Are you able to track each students’ performance in the class? During the circle time, were all students
engaged? How can you monitor all students to ensure they are paying attention and not fooling about?

Reflection
Strengths:
The activities went well. There were a lot of different activities. The time management went very well.
Areas for improvement:
They were very active since it was a later class.

Action Plan (Objectives, actions, implementation timeline, resources):

 How can you maintain a high level of engagement in the circle activities?
o E.g., use of their names, keeping more order – when playing a game, etc.
 MST – include comments in your portfolio about how she manages the assessment across the
whole term

 Launches into lesson

o Rather abrupt but attributable to nerves
o Some technical difficulties
 Does the alphabet
 Does a song – students are sitting and some are singing.
o Hungry and tired!

2
 Shares the rules and the reward board – stay in the green!
o Part of the research?
 Days of week song - great participation
 Goes over the day/night box
 Does a PPT of day and night
 Play a song – day and night – what is the value of the song – how might you engage the
students?
 Plays a game
o How can you get the students to be more engaged – they are sitting in circles
o Are they paying attention?
o Taraf gets demoted
 Sets up the centres and assigns students – what were the criteria?
o Goes around and interacts with the students and keeps a focus on the work.
 Reviews the work
o Very effective self-assessment!
o How does that work? Do they know a rubric?