Task four

 

Observation task 4: Planning and preparing for learning

Focus   The importance of planning and preparation

Objective     The objective of this task is for student teachers to begin to identify and discuss the relevance of planning and preparation as well as to gain insight into how teachers do this.

Before the observation

Discuss the task with the teacher and arrange a good time to observe her teaching. (this could be for as little as 15 min)

During the observation, record and make notes on what the teacher and the learners are doing.

Teacher activity	Learner activity	Time spent
- Counting beyond 100 whole group. - Teacher: wrote number. - Group 1-2	- Respond write. Students- counted forward . Numbers 102- 200 chart (place numbers on chart.)	20 min 15 min 45 min

·      How do you plan? Do you plan weekly, daily, as part of a team or individually? Lesson plans are written 2 weeks in advance. Grade team meets weekly to discuss outcomes for the week.

·      Do you do anything you haven’t planned to do? Some times yes in depending on what students ask about and what they need and then back to the plan.

·      What is important to you when planning a lesson?  Lesson plans is very important in order to cover all the outcomes per term. Your plans should reflect learning for all students. Aim : meet the needs of all students.

·      Do you plan to do the same thing with all the children in the classroom? (Why/Why not? No, because sometimes teacher need to leave the plan to fix problem or change the way he teach to make sure that all students understand.

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C.    If you can, arrange to attend a planning session with the teacher/team.  Take notes.

Reflection 4

•     Why is planning and preparation for learning important? 

•     What do you have to think about before you begin to plan for learning?

•     What did you observe?

·      What did you feel?

·      What did you learn?

First of all the planning lesson is very important to know what teacher will do in the class and what activities will give the students in class and did the teacher want students work individual or with group. In addition to that lesson plans should reflect learning for all students. During the plan teacher should use and modify and after the class teacher think about lesson, make changes, extend the lesson. I observe that sometimes teacher should go out the plan if children need more explain or ask the question that they do not understand or need more help to understand the lesson or activity that they have. I feel that planning lesson is very important for teacher and students. I learn that sometimes teachers have to meet with each other to planning weekly and sharing their opinion with each other.