I'd like to highlight what I saw during my classroom walkthrough on Jan 13, 1:05-1:30pm, 5th period:

Criteria
1. Facilitates organized, student-centered,
objective-driven lessons (teacher-student &
student-student interaction)
2. Checks for student understanding and
responds to student misunderstanding (teacherstudent interaction & student metacognitive selfcheck)
3. Differentiates instruction for student needs by
employing a variety of instructional strategies
(teacher)
4. Engages students in work that develops in
higher-level thinking skills (teacher, teacherstudent, & student-student interaction)
5. Maximizes instructional time (teacher &
student-student interaction)
6. Communicates content and concepts to
students (teacher)
7. Promotes high academic expectations for
students (teacher, teacher-student, & studentstudent interaction)
8. Students actively participating in lesson
activities (student & student-student interaction)
9. Sets and implements discipline management
procedures (teacher & teacher-student
interaction)
10. Builds a positive and respectful classroom
environment (teacher-student interaction)
Criteria (Semester 1)
1. Class goal (e.g. every student will achieve at
least 80% mastery)
2. Class rules/expectations (e.g. be on time, be
respectful, be prepared, be attentive & on task)
3. Class culture/atmosphere
4. Math/college posters
5. Teacher involvement with students
6. Teacher questioning techniques
7. Checks for understanding
8. Lesson objectives/agenda
9. Lesson opening/engagement
10. Lesson activities
11. Lesson closing

Observation & Remarks

Students are taking a timed 10-question quiz on socrative.com.
Students take a new quiz after that.
Students receive immediate feedback on socrative.com.

Students are seated in groups of 2, 3, 4, 6, or 7. Rationale?

Students are engaged and actively discussing the problems with

each other. They are solving quadratic equations using various
methods e.g. square rooting, factoring.
Timed quiz on socrative.com creates a sense of urgency.
Not observable.
Not observable.

Students are actively discussing the problems with each other.

Kids are generally on task and focused on their quiz. Most of
their conversations are about the problems being attempted.
In 6 out of 8 groups, kids are lending a helping hand with the math
problems the other 2 groups were more individualistic.
Observation & Remarks
Will discuss on progress made if applicable from Semester 1.
Will discuss on progress made if applicable from Semester 1.
Will discuss on progress made if applicable from Semester 1.
Will discuss on progress made if applicable from Semester 1.
Will discuss on progress made if applicable from Semester 1.
Will discuss on progress made if applicable from Semester 1.
Will discuss on progress made if applicable from Semester 1.
Will discuss on progress made if applicable from Semester 1.
Will discuss on progress made if applicable from Semester 1.
Will discuss on progress made if applicable from Semester 1.
Will discuss on progress made if applicable from Semester 1.

Action Steps:
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Get attention first, wait until everyone is giving attention, and then communicate steps/instruction, which have
to be planned ahead.

Kind regards,

Tan