Observation Week 3

Teacher has class set out with materials and questions at each station to provoke the kids. Chn are allowed to pick what they want to do during reading. Teacher gives instructions at each station, as it is a new provocation. Students aren’t told what to do; they pick what they want to do.

As I look around the groups are mixed ability and are interacting with the top learners explaining their thinking around why they are doing certain things. Some learners are watching others, some are trying to attempt what the higher learners are doing and there is a lot of talking around the learning that is happening.

There is a group working with the teacher. I have noticed the teacher is writing the words the children are struggling to read and re-visit them at the conclusion of the lesson. This group is one of the lower groups so the extended learning is the re-visiting of the unknown words. The groups follow up is at the level for the children and they are able to do independently. Before they go away the teacher does it with them and scaffolds their learning.

One thing that I have noticed is that the children looked really focused and stay on task. The teacher did not once ask them to settle or be quite. There is a lot of productive conversations and all learners can enter into conversation at their own level.

Before I think about my own next steps I will need to reflect more on what I have seen and I how I will implement what I have seen in my class. There was a lot of awesome things going and a lot of good teaching points. What do I want to think about doing first and how will I execute it.