OBSERVATION CHECKLIST WRITING CLASS

Madrasah Aliyah Nurus Syam

Class : Date :
Teacher : Observer :

Items of observation Yes Partially No

Pre writing
Teacher activates students’ knowledge about the writing topic
Teacher provider contextualized task
Teacher Encourage students to work in pair or group
Teacher provides students with strategies for generating ideas through,
organizing and planning
Teacher teaches students how to apply the strategies
Teacher provides ample opportunities for students to apply proper
strategies for generating ideas
Teacher encourages students to use visual and sensory images such as
graphics organizer and webs to organize main ideas and supporting or
related ideas
Teacher enable students to collect information from reading, taking
notes…etc.
Teacher help students analyze a model text related to the writing topic
Teachers help students to alleviate their pre writing
anxiety/apprehension
Writing stage
Teacher lead students into building awareness of discourse
organization
Teacher’s model crafting skills
Teacher models how the parts of a text are linked through cohesive
devices
Teacher illustrates how sentence structure can vary to develop
meaning
Teacher help students to correct punctuation, structure text, grammar
and etc.
Teacher encourage collaborative task
Teacher promote drafting
Post writing
Students encouraged to use revision strategies
When assessing student’ work, teacher marks areas for improvements
Teacher use encourages self and peer correction
Teacher located error and give them symbol to denote types of error
(using coding system)
Teacher indicates in the margin that there is an error of a particular
kind somewhere on that line and asks students to locate it and correct it
Teacher shares with students the grading criteria that is to be uses to
assess their written work
Teacher provides constructive feedback