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MCT/MST Lesson Observations

MCT/MST Lesson Observation
Student teacher’s name: Amal Grade Level: 3
Unit/Lesson: Habitat Date: 25Oct18

Competency Area E G S M U

Please tick the boxes using the OVERALL ASSESSMENT LEVEL

DESCRIPTORS attached at end of document

(E = Excellent, G = Good, S = Satisfactory, M = Marginal, U = Unsatisfactory)

Professionalism x
Planning for learning x x
(Includes knowledge & understanding of content)
Implementing and Managing Learning x
(Includes behavior management, language and delivery)
Assessment x
Reflection on Practice

First Class – one hour

Engagement
A relevant section that built gradually towards the day’s LOs.
What’s your favourite animal? A variety of plastic animals were used and students were
asked to identify them. Students were excited about this. The OHP was then used to
introduce the term ‘habitat’. The video was then used to show the various types of
habitats of different animals. Good building of the concept here. The questions after
were pertinent to the video but it would have been useful to provide the answer to each
question on a separate slide that gave a stronger visual of the answers to help students
to better grasp the topic.

Exploration
The activities in this section were pertinent to the LOs and did help students to build a
stronger understanding of the LO. Resources were well thought out. You should think about
how it can be made more student-centred, more hands-on minds-on, and given students time
to use more process skills. Maybe students could have been:
1. given maybe data about animals who live in different habitats (like a reading), along
with sticky pictures and a board, students would extract information and build a
collage of the habitat and animals who live there.
2. It is useful to link habitats and features of animals as well.
3. Finally, asked to justify why they put each element in each habitat and to report this
on a worksheet..
Explanation
A useful powerpoint that provided the responses to the varied worksheets/activities.

Elaboration
Useful information in the powerpoint that extended information about the different animals,
Evaluation
The formative evaluation was suited to the task.
The summative assessment of describing an animal was fun but it is necessary to test the day’s LOs.
Go back and look at what these were on your lesson plan.
Generally
 Good planning
 Quality and relevant resources
 A good amount of recycling of the concept so that students had time to become
familiar with it.
 Students had many opportunities to explore the concept in a variety of ways through
the lesson including, the video, making the poster, investigating the model animals.
 Sequencing towards the LOs was relevant
Areas for development:
 More higher ordered activities and questions.
 More student centred activities that use more science process skills.
 During seat work, help students towards the task by asking them what they understood or
didn’t understand (not just the task, but the theory that was taught).
 Classroom management
Focus for next lesson:
More student-centred activities that use more science process skills during the exploration phase of
the lesson.