Last lesson of the day - given that it's 5pm - isn't ideal for an observed lesson. I had set a fairly low level of achievement because of this and it went reasonably well until about 35 minutes. A weak activity, that I hadn't defined well or explained, lost the group very quickly and I never really recovered. This also flustered me and meant I didn't really summarise at all. Not great.
Lesson? I need to test drive or role-play new activities more carefully, especially when the attention of the group might be fragile. Still there were a good deal of positives, and I was very happy with the first half of the lesson. I have asked to be observed with the same group at the same time next term, to check whether my strategy has improved.
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Well my tutor observation went fairly okay, I was so nervous by the end of it I was almost panicking
ReplyDeleteBut my peer observation later the same day; oh that was a different story. It went the same way yours went. Okay for the first half hour until I began to lose grip on half of the class because they were well ahead of the half, causing me to reflect on assessing prior learning before any teaching.
Also sitting arrangement - I allowed learners who knew each other, to sit too close to one other almost disrupting my lesson.
Huge learning from it. Huge lesson