TESOL Observation Field Notes

Class Observation #__ENG 107 __

Teacher

__Sarah_Hynes___________

Date/Time__2.10.2016 3:00-4:00______

Class

____ENG107_______________

Location______Coor L1-34____________

Effective Principles of Observation:

Wipe away preconceived notions before starting your observations.

Collect observations under different circumstances and from varied perspectives.

Take thorough notes, including quotes and details about the setting and atmosphere, and collect
important class documents.

Engage in active listening using a detached observer approach.

Keep systematic track of observations that surprise you or contradict your prior beliefs.

Pre-Class Notes (e.g., what are the teachers goals for the lesson? what are the demographics [e.g., student population,
class size, proficiency level] of the class?)

Practice commons.
Work on the reflection assignment.
Teacher asked what is reflection mean? (Review)

Description/Observation of the class

Reflection on/Interpretation of the class

Start working on the student reflection assignments

The best points in her class is she always showing

an example before doing an practice.

(i.e., what is happening?)

Work question 1 by themselves

(i.e., what does it mean?)

---She show the examples students may ever done it before

Use the questions one review with the students together to help
them.
Work questions 2 together (2-3 students become a group
work on questions )
She wants to ask three questions what they do in the
digitations three questions about what they do in the
strategies.
What they going to do, what did they put in in their
homework?
The process step by step.
She walks around to help students if they dont understand
the questions.

Talk about questions two.(What about their strategies)

She will see how hard or what kind of discussion is

and separate the groups. Like for this time its a
hard question to discussion and need to more help,
she put the same countries students together to let
them help each other to figure the
questions( question2) and discuss about it.

After she asked students discussed the questions

and she always pick different students to answer
her questions.(For this class questions 2: what
about their strategies)

She always write it down what they are talking

about and how to answer the questions step by
step. If they dont know some words she will explain
the word and she always will give an example
about this word. She also will give some tips and
trips to help the students read and understand the
information. This is a really teaching way.

--non relevant, non-credible sites garbage.

---What is scholarly study (explain it)
(Long, challenging 30+ pages, its really hard to read)

When they meet some difficult questions, she

offered boner (extra credits) to encourage students
to let the discussion group to let the whole class
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(Popular source: CNN, New york times)---will help to cites the

articles, then will be much easier to read.

more activated.

This is a hard question, so she offered the extra credits for

the first discussion group to find the answer.

Here is those three questions:

1. Review your research logs with the goal of identifying

best and worst research strategies. Then write a
short reflection (300-500 words) on your findings. You
can choose any of these questions to answer as well
as writing any reflection that will help you learn from
your successes and mistakes.

How did this essay's requirement of creating your

own questions change the previous ways you
conducted research and/or wrote a research
paper?
How much time did you spend on doing research
for this project? Do you think you spent too little
or too much time on doing research? How would
you redistribute your efforts in the future?
Where do you think you wasted the most time in
this project? Why? What would you differently if
you were going to do this project again?
At what point were you the most confused in this
project? What were you confused about? What
did you do to help you resolve your confusion?
What are your default strategies for research?
This means the strategies that you usually use
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without even thinking about them; these could be

strategies that you've used for other research
projects in the past. Where did you find yourself
going back to your default strategies?
Sometimes, people default to old strategies in
times of stress, even if they know that those old
strategies are not the best ones. What are your
stress triggers (things that make you feel stressed
and cause you to default to old habits)? How can
you avoid those triggers in the future?
Was there a time during this project when it was
really difficult to find an exact (or even a good)
answer to one of your questions? What did you
do?
Did you ever find yourself giving up on a topic or a
research question? How long does it take before
you get to that point? What do you do when you
reach that point? Do you think you could do
anything differently to use your time better?
On average, how long do you spend planning
before your research? How long do you spend
searching and scanning search results? How long
do you spend reading possible sources and taking
notes? Do you think you give an appropriate
amount of time to each of these activities? How
could you redistribute your efforts to make your
research more successful?
If you had to start this project over from the
beginning, what would you do differently and why?

2. During this project, you learned many strategies for

optimizing your research (optimizing means doing
something in the smartest, fastest, most-efficient way
possible). I want you to list three specific strategies
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you used for optimizing your research. For each one,

copy and paste a piece of your research log that
shows you using that strategy.
----Some students are doing really well, they use non
relevant

3. Review your research logs and pick three places to

expand and reflect on. Add an explanation of the
decisions you made or the realizations you had, like in
the sample research log. Then write a short reflection
on those decisions. Were they smart decisions? How
did they affect the rest of your research and your
research paper? What would you do differently if you
were to do it over again? Overall, this should be 350500 words.
4. Copy and paste all of your research logs.
5. Copy and paste all of your research logs.

Post-Class Notes (e.g., are there follow-up questions for the teacher? does anything need to be clarified?)
HM:

Reflection
The Reflection is due before class on Monday, 2/15. Please copy and paste into the Rich Text in Digication, Step
11.

EXTRA CREDIT (5% to your final draft)

Email me with a paragraph AND the comment that you got from your partner about that paragraph. In class, we
will take a look at the paragraph and the comment and figure out how to revise the paragraph in response to the
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comment.

Class Notes
6. Review Reflection Assignment #3: look at sample
7. Reflection Assignment #2: brainstorm a list of optimal research strategies with a group and share with the
class
8. Extra Credit Opportunity for next class

Questions: Show we help students to find the specific area study and resources article.?