Professional Documents
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Evaluation
Category
Observation Log
C & I Checklist
Reflection on standards
Pass
Completed with signatures and
required number of hours
Each checklist is thoroughly
completed with concrete examples
of specific instructional strategies
utilized
Addresses all required points:
Instructional strategies
Assessments
Standards
Is missing information
Concept Maps:
Cooperative Learning: Students work together on their vocabulary boxes in Mrs.
Ritchies class. For example, students divided and conquered the words they had
to look up in the dictionary and then collectively shared their answers.
Critical Thinking________________________________________________
Demonstration: Mr. Eigenfeld demonstrates the lab for the students. Showing
them how to adjust the string length, tie the weight onto the end, and how to
properly count the amount of swings the pendulum takes.
Direct Instruction: Mr. Eigenfeld gives students exact instructions on how the lab
should be done. He reads off of the lab sheet that he also gave the students.
Discovery: Students doing the lab in Mr. Eigenfelds class are discovering if they
can predict the amount of swings a pendulum will take if given the length of the
string.
Discussion: Before doing the lab, Mr. Eigenfeld asks the students to discuss as a
class what they had found in the days prior lab (that the length of a string in a
pendulum will effect the amount of swings) and how that can contribute to
todays lab.
Drill and Practice: Ms. Krall-Meske uses drill and practice with her 8th grade
Spanish students when it comes to vocabulary and spelling. They do exercises on
the board where students go up and fill in the blanks of sentences where they
must guess the correct word and spell it correctly. They also play around the
world where the teacher gives a sentence and the student who gives the correct
word first moves on to the next student.
Graphic Organizers______________________________________________
Group Work: small groups, large groups: Both in Mrs. Ritchies and Mr.
Eigenfelds classrooms, students split up into small groups to either work on the
vocabulary packets or to work on the lab assigned.
Guided Practice________________________________________________
Hands-on Learning: The students in Mr. Eigenfelds class are involved in handson learning during the lab. They are physically touching, counting, and timing the
pendulum that they have.
Independent Instruction_________________________________________
Interdisciplinary Instruction______________________________________
Journal Writing: Mrs. Ritchie asks the 3 students who attended the preschool the
day before and today to complete a journal entry and place it in the class binder.
In this journal entry they are to write about what they did with the preschool
children, how they felt about the activities, and what they would change or keep
if they were the ones designing the lessons.
Lecture: Mr. Eigenfeld gave a small lecture to students on the lab they were
about to do and what information they would be using during the lab
Metacognition_________________________________________________
Problem Based Learning_________________________________________
Projects______________________________________________________
Questioning Strategies: Levels of Bloom____________________________
Reflection_____________________________________________________
Role Playing___________________________________________________
Other________________________________________________________
Assessment Types utilized
Assessments, Tests, Checking for Understanding
Mrs. Ritchie gives students a quiz to take on their chrome books. These quizzes
are based on the book they are currently reading to check for understanding as
well as completion
Mr. Eigenfeld is constantly asking students for definitions of vocabulary words
that go along with the unit they are working on; motion, energy, gravitational
potential energy, and kinetic energy.
The lab the students did the day before in Mr. Eigenfelds class had questions at
the end that students were asked to fill out for homework. The teacher collected
the completed labs and they were being taken for a grade.
Mrs. Schroeder used formative assessment by asking questions to her class and
then having them answer by raising her hands. She would ask simple questions
such as So if the equation is 2x=24, what does x equal? or If x=3, then what
would 17x=?.
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Standards Focus
Activities
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