MCT/MST Lesson Observation 2

Student teacher’s name: Iman ADabdoub H00282514 Grade Level: 3

Unit/Lesson: Tally Date: March 5 2018
MST Miss Shabre Newton Mohammed bin Khaled School

Competency Area E G S M U
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(E = Excellent, G = Good, S = Satisfactory, M = Marginal, U = Unsatisfactory)

Professionalism x
Planning for learning x
(Includes knowledge & understanding of content)
Implementing and Managing Learning x
(Includes behavior management, language and delivery)
Assessment x
Reflection on Practice
Overview of the lesson:
Iman planned and taught a math/science lesson about tally marks. She introduced the idea by
showing images which she tallied on the board, asking students to participate by making the tally
marks. Then she handed out differentiated activity materials and explained what to do, circulating to
explain more and help students complete the task. Most students were on task and learning. At the
end of the activity, she collected all the papers and showed the class what the students had done.
Then she showed a video about tally marks, stopping at important points to help children understand
tally marks and bar graphs. Then she gave out survey question for each group to convert the tally
marks into a number.

Areas for development:

1. Choral work on key vocabulary – ask all students to say the target vocabulary.
2. Transition to activity. It takes a long time for you to hand out the materials. It would be faster to
put everything in one package and ask the group leader to come and collect it. Similarly, it took a
long time to stop the activity and collect the materials. Give the responsibility to the students to
clean up – appoint a group leader who gets extra points for keeping the materials together,
collecting the papers and bringing them to you.
3. teacher centeredness. Make your class more student centered– try to include the whole class
more.
- Ask students to turn and talk – say what you learned about tally to your friend,
- ask students to present their own work at the end of the activity
- ask all students to say the key words.
- ask all students to make the tally marks for the dinosaurs on white boards or paper.
- take a survey of the whole class and put it on a poster – How many students have white shoes ,
black shoes, pink shoes, blue shoes. Tally up the results
8:15
Starts with greetings , reminds students of the good behavior routines.
Today we will learn how to use tally marksI want you to focus on the picture because we will use thins .
reminds ss to sit in the chair. What’s the colour . purpoe or pink and how many cars do you see. So now
if you have one car we can use tally marks to make marks if we have we can make another mark.

Picture 2, what do you see here. Whtat colour (question about the colur is misleading
If I want to caount with tally marks I will do the same. One for the green (marks the board) one for the
yellow and one for the red. What if I want to ad one more.

How many cars picture 2

If we have 6 cars we will put 1. 2. 3. Who will complete. Shows how to make 5 plus 1
I will show you how to make 5 plus explains clearly how to make the diagonal. The
Shows image of a tally fwith five. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 closes the door (need to have students
Asks a student to come and count what’s the 5 say .so now you close the door and go back to your chair.
Any one of you have animals at home. I have a cat.
Who will use tally marks to write 5 on the board.

Some excellent modeling

Who else have something special at home .
Birds and rabbits
Activity 1.
Paper with
After I give each group the activity I will explain for each group. – hands out worksheets and counters
and other things . some students start to play.
8:35
Activities explained and handed out.
One boy finished in 5 minutes.
I announces you have 3 minutes left.