Observation Report 4

In this opportunity, we will analyze a lesson at a fifth grade.

Context: Literary contexts. Topic: Postcards.

Language practices: greet each other, narrate.

Tasks: Read different types of texts (letters and postcards), match pictures with texts, and write different types of texts (postcards).

Lesson:  (50 minutes)

The teacher entered the room and greeted the students.

Teacher: Hello children!

Students: Hello Maria Marta!

Teacher: How are you today?

Students: Fine, thank you.

They checked a true or false exercise that they had to do as homework about different postcards.

After checking the homework, the teacher wrote on the board the day and date.

Teacher: What’s the day today? Monday, 19^th October.

Teacher: What`s the weather like today?

Students: Cloudy!

Teacher: It`s cloudy. And how do you feel today? Write on your notebooks: I am ______ today. (happy, sad, angry or tired).

And the teacher wrote the date and the weather condition on the board.

She also explained and wrote the different parts of a postcard, and asked the student to think as homework to which person they would like to send a letter and look for the address of that person.

1)      MANAGING THE PACE OF THE CLASS
A.      Managing time	The teacher gave plenty of “wait time” for students to answer.
B.      Managing activities	The teacher had already prepared simplifies instructions for the activities.
C.      Use of transition activities	She did not used  attention getters nor brain breaks.
2)      MANAGING BEHAVIOUR WITH ROUTINES
She started the class with a greeting. She checked homework given the previous class. She established the date, day and weather (she wrote it on the board). She gave the lesson. She gave homework for the following class.
3)      MANAGING BEHAVIOUR WITH RULES
A.      Enforce school rules	“Chewing gum into the dustbin, please” she said to one of the students. Chewing gum is not allowed in class.
B.      Rules are clearly communicated and constructed	“When you are absent, you have to ask a classmate what we have done in class and ask if you have some homework to do”.
C.      Consequences for positive and negative behavior	“I will give you feedback (marks) on the homework you had to do for today”. Apart from that, as some children did not listen to their classmates, she told them that she would give them homework.
D.     Enforce rules consistently and fairly	Since the children continued talking and not listening to the rest of their classmates, she finally gave them homework.
E.      Involve parents in managing YL’s behavior	No.
4)      MANAGING THE CLASSROOM CLIMATE
A.      Physical environment	The way in which the classroom is set up makes it possible for the teacher to walk through the room in order to check on students and monitor their progress.
B.      Emotional atmosphere	The teacher was a supportive adult that treated all students equally and fairly.
5)      MANAGING THE LANGUAGE USED IN CLASS
The teacher used L1 to explain instructions of the activities.