Bureau of Secondary Education

Curriculum Development Division

CLASSROOM
OBSERVATION
GUIDE
DEPED TAMBAYAN
 Bureau of Secondary Education
Curriculum Development Division
Classroom Observation Guide
Expected Teacher Observed Expected Learner Observed
Behavior Behavior

Explore 1.Reveal their

1.Diagnoses students background
readiness for learning knowledge and skills
with understanding by responding
Pre-requisite appropriately to
knowledge and skills teachers questions
Misconceptions, if
any

2.Activates students 2. Relate prior

prior knowledge to learning to the new
connect this to the lesson
present lesson
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Classroom Observation Guide
Expected Teacher Observed Expected Learner Observed
Behavior Behavior

3. Provides 3. Share what they

background readings have read and
for students with understood based on
limited or no the background
background readings; validate
knowledge with the teacher the
sense they have made
of the readings

4. Clarifies 4. Ask questions to

expectations and clarify, if necessary,
how learning shall be their understanding
assessed of the expected
products and
performances and
how these shall be
assessed
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Classroom Observation Guide
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Behavior Behavior

5. Hooks and 5. Indicate the

engages students topics they wish to
interest explore; present
their
plan(s)/strategies
after exploring them

6. Ask essential 6. Express essential

questions questions and offer
tentative
responses/ideas
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Curriculum Development Division
Classroom Observation Guide

Expected Teacher Observed Expected Learner Observed

Behavior Behavior

7. Encourages 7. Ask further

students questions to
questions clarify

8. Welcomes 8. Express possible

tentative ways to validate
responses as tentative
guide to further responses
exploration
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Curriculum Development Division
Classroom Observation Guide

Expected Teacher Observed Expected Learner Observed

Behavior Behavior

Firm Up
9. Guides students to 9. Acquire
various sources to information from
facilitate acquisition appropriate and
of information various sources

10. Provides a variety 10.Process (analyze,

of learning resources interpret or make
and differentiated sense of) information
activities to validate
responses to essential
questions
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Curriculum Development Division
Classroom Observation Guide

Expected Teacher Observed Expected Learner Observed

Behavior Behavior

11. Processes 11. Express their

students meanings meanings or own
and checks these understanding in oral
against the essential or in written form
understanding

12. Clarifies or 12. Express clear

elaborates when and understanding of the
where necessary to concept
firm up students
understanding
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Curriculum Development Division
Classroom Observation Guide

Expected Teacher Observed Expected Learner Observed

Behavior Behavior

13. Provides 13. Can give own

additional content, examples or counter
confirmatory or examples to confirm
counter examples to understanding
firm up students
understanding

14. Provides 14. Reflect, revise,

opportunity for rethink their
students to reflect, understanding
revise or rethink
their understanding
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Curriculum Development Division
Classroom Observation Guide

Expected Teacher Observed Expected Learner Observed

Behavior Behavior

15. Checks for 15. Respond

understanding and appropriately to the
clarification teachers questions

16. Provides timely 16. Make adjustment

feedback relative to feedback
given
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Curriculum Development Division
Classroom Observation Guide
Expected Teacher Observed Expected Learner Observed
Behavior Behavior
17. Checks students 17. Provide evidence
knowledge and skills of understanding
against content
standard

Deepen
18. Provides a 18. Participate
variety of learning actively in the
resources and different activities
differentiated that further
activities/learning enhance/enrich their
experiences in understanding
similar contexts to
deepen/enrich and
validate students
understanding
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Classroom Observation Guide
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Behavior Behavior

19. Presents relevant 19. Formulate

issues/problems/situa creative solutions to
tions that will address relevant
challenge and stretch issues/problems/
students thinking situations

20. Asks students to 20. Express their

express their deep understanding
understanding through any of the six
FUs
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Classroom Observation Guide

Expected Teacher Observed Expected Learner Observed

Behavior Behavior

21. Checks for 21. Express mastery

mastery of essential of essential
understanding understanding
Reveal self-
knowledge

Transfer
22. Provides 22. Design, construct,
models/exemplars/re plan or produce new
al life situations for knowledge and/or
transfer of learning invent useful
in new or different products
contexts
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Classroom Observation Guide

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Behavior Behavior

23. Evaluates 23. Assess their own

products/performanc learning or engage in
es; checks against meaningful self-
performance evaluation
standards Product or
performance meets
standard
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