Observation Task 2 - Roles and responsibilities of the teacher

Focus: The MST

Objective: For student teachers to begin to understand the diverse nature of
teaching by observing a teacher for the day.
Procedure
1. Using the following checklist, observe the teacher throughout the day.
2. Write down what her/his roles and responsibilities were on the blank table,
and record how many minutes she spent on each activity.
3. Did the teacher do anything not on the checklists? Record what else she did.
4. What activities did you do/help the teacher with today?
Checklist
Time Roles and responsibilities…
Teacher roles and responsibilities. Wh spent
 Signs in and out
 Attends t he morning assembly
at the 2 Let one student every day
Minutes write the date and the day on
 Deals with attendance issues teach
 Does bus duty the board
 Meets with parents/guardians er 5 Signs in and out
 Deals with disruptive behaviour Minutes
 Lesson preparation
did…
3 Deals with attendance issues
 Playground/break duty
Minutes
 Deals with administration
 Attends a meeting 2 Deals with disruptive behavior
 Marking work Minutes
 Plans with colleagues 5 Lesson preparation
 Tidies up the classroom Minutes
 Takes learners to other classes 30 Class teaching
 Class teaching
Minutes
 ?
 ? 5 – 10 Marking work
 ? Minutes
 ? 1 Deals with the black and green
Minute points
5-7 In the end of the class every
Minutes day the teacher ask the
students what they are
understand from the lesson
5 Tidies up the classroom
Minutes
Reflection
Write a summary of what you believe the main roles and responsibilities of a teacher
are.

 What surprised you?

 What shocked you?
 What delighted you?

All of the teacher have some rules to deal with the students in the classroom and the
teacher think the rules are so important to do it in the classroom for the students, and
the students will learn many things from the rules that the teacher use it. Teachers are
best known for the role of educating the students, also the teacher mentor and nurture
students, and listen and look for signs of trouble. My MST uses a lot of rules in the
classroom to help students to build and grow themselves. I surprised of the rules that
the teacher use it like he let them to write the date, day on the board and this rules is
important for the students because they will have organize lifestyle, also the second
rule the teacher take the attendance every day and this rule help the students to respect
the time and be in the class on the time. I face some rules that shocked me. For
example, when the students play on their phone while the teacher explain the lesson
he deals with them to take the phones and not give them the phone between two
classes until the end of the class, also he give them four black points that means the
students do a bad behavior in the class, the black points will help the students to do a
good behavior next time because if they will get more than 10 black points they will
lose the grade of the participating in the class for that they have to do their best in the
class. Finally I interest and am so happy of the one rule that the teacher use it. For
instance, my MST let the students tidy the classroom and clean the tables and take the
dirty if they have on the table before they leave. This rule helps the students on the
home or anyplace they will go because they will take their dirty and clean the place.