my education blog : 2014

Sunday, November 30, 2014

The Last Day At AlGaith School

Last Day At The School

Small gift from the learners

I hate to say good bye. I really enjoyed practicing at the colorful school. I will miss my girls. I have learned from this experience a lot. I have been watching the girls and they have different stories. There is a shy girl and there are a talkative, creative, and never talking girl. However, they all very attractive. Hope to meet them soon as I can.

My girls are showing me how they have dance at the national day

Theme Map What To Be Studied -observation-

AlGaith School Theme

I have been taken a photos for the theme:

This picture for the names of the class learner and for the teacher schedule

This is a picture for the weekly planning

This a picture for the activities

This is a photo for the map of the school

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Classroom Management And Teacher Talk

Classroom Management

The teacher is helping the weak learner

I have been answered those questions in several:

1. What worked well and why? in my opinion the best strategy that my mentor use is in starting the day she discuss about what they had and what they going to have different ways for the children.

2. What useful tips and strategies did you observe? the good strategies that i observed in my mentor's class that they have a good teaching for the children and they are well organized with planning every single day.

3. What strategies does the teacher use to manage the children and why? every child have a different behavior in every class so then she managed them by her ability.

4. Are there any children in the class with difficult or unusual behavior? How does the teacher deal with these children? if there are some unusual behavior she will send them to the social workers.

5. Overall, is the teacher more negative or positive when dealing with management issues? Why do you think that? no she don't .due to the teacher is so quite and patient.

Integrated Subject Areas -Math Observation-

Integration

The girls are doing the activity

The girls are doing the activity and at the same time they are learning an English language. I wrote about what they have done and how the language is a part of the math activities as a table:

Concept	Activity	Language
Estimate Measure	simple math	Estimate Length Object
Record Length		Kilo meter Centimeter Millimeter
Measure	Measuring the length of the things in the classroom	Tall Long Shorter Distance

I collected some worksheets from the lesson:

This is some worksheets of the activities

Activities In A Specialist Class -observation-

The Art Class

The learners are doing an media arts for the national day

The activity that the learners were doing is called mix media art. They were working as a group. They were using a brush, board, water, plate, colors and tools to design the board. However, sometimes the teacher directed the lesson and sometimes the students who choose the activities.

The girls are butting the last decoration at the board

Activity Types -observation-

Learning Activities

The learners are playing with the dolls

The girls were engaged in doing one activity throughout the day. The activity name is measuring the length of the things around you. The hole class were working together. They were using their books and pencil and ruler. However, the teacher directed this activity.

Here are some photos from the lesson:

Classroom Management And Teacher Talk -observation-

Classroom Management

Raya is organizing her stories

Beginning and ending the day
Punctuality at the beginning of the lesson	teacher arrives before the pupils with pupils after pupils learners arrive all on time most on time several late
Teacher’s response to those who are late. What does she say?	positive reinforcement why you are late? Come on time next time
	negative reinforcement don’t be late again
	punishment talking to or meet their parents
Starting the day: what does the teacher say? do? Good morning and she tell them about what they are going to do
Lining up : location	Playground outside class Inside class
Teacher instructions for lining up: what does she say? do?
Ending the day: what does the teacher say? /do?	Come on girls lineup please, and then she is making sure that they are lining up all the way
Moving
Moving the children for an activity. What does she say? do?	Lining up and taking the attendance
Moving the children: how do they respond?	Get to your seat please Going to their seat
Misbehaviour
What was the learner doing?	Chowing gum Talking Interrupting
What did the teacher say? do?	Stop doing that Nothing
How did the child respond:	They listen and stop doing that, even if they don’t they will go to the social worker
How does the teacher stop the children at the end of an activity? What does she say? do?	She is asking them to make sure they learn something, she ask them about what they have learn

A Child Who Has Exceeded Cognitive Level Expectations -observation-

The Other Learner

This picture show how Shaikha is working with her class mate

Name: Shaikha Albulooshi Age: 10 Level: High

Brief description: Shaikha is a creative girl who really enjoy helping her classmate

Date of observation:.…13…./ …11….. / …2014……..

Time	Activity / Movement	Notes / comments
8:40	Spilling test	Doing her test and she writes the words quickly
8:50	Doing the UAE brusher	Because she has finished writing it she is starting to coloring it
9:49	Science lab	Doing her work and translates what her teacher saying to her classmate
10:20	Words game	She is playing and she didn’t lose the game because she spelt the words correctly

Different Learning Styles -observation-

General Observation

I have been observe two different girl and I wrote it as a table:

Alya is working with her friend

Name: Alya suwaid Age: 11 Level:lower

Brief description: Alya is a good girl she is trying to do her best but she need more time to understand things

Date of observation:.12……./ …11….. / …2014……..

Time

Activity / Movement

Notes / comments

11:50

Book activity

She is talking with her friends and not doing her work

12:00

Brusher for the UAE

She is bringing her stuff but she still talking and do nothing of her work

12:54

Words game

Spilling the words wrong because she didn’t do her homework

1:15

Spilling test

She spill the word wrong but she is doing her test without cheating

Planing and Preparing for Learning -observation-

The Importance of Planning and Preparation

I find out how the teacher is preparing for the lessons. She is planning daily and as a team. Sometimes Mrs. Cathrine is doing things not of her plane like Phonicsor sites word. Also, there is an important thing to her when she is preparing for the lesson. She cares about the differences between the levels and she works really hard to make it interesting. She never ever plan to do the same thing with the all girls; because they all learn in a different ways.

Mrs. Catharine is Preparing for the lesson

I was watching them and they were doing this:

*Teacher activity*	*Learner activity*	*Time spent*
Teacher take the learner to the computer lab Teacher starts to give them the test The teacher start to give them the lesson and make sure that all of them pay attention The teacher give them an activities to do The teacher walking around them just to make sure that they all working and having no problems The teacher is walking around and correct the books The teacher take them back to the class	The learners are lining up and they walk in pairs Learners do the test and they hide their works The learners are looking to the teacher and pay attention They are doing the activities The learners asking the teacher for some helps The girls give her the books The learner are lining up and walking back to the class	2 mins 20 mins 5 mins 30 mins 10 mins 5 mins