For my ten observational hours, I decided to observe a teacher at my former high school, Mr. Joseph. He is a freshman world history teacher at Kirtland High School.
Observation:
For his lesson on the first day he posed a situation for all of his classes where his students had to write summaries of sections of the chapter. He broke the students into seven different groups where they were each assigned a section of the chapter. Mr. Joseph explained the project to the students and then let them go on their way. After a few minutes of letting the students get set up and beginning to work, he went around to each group and helped them out if they had any questions. He did not simply give them the answers, he gave them help and guided them to the correct responses he was looking for.
What Happened:
This lesson was very useful for many reasons, instead of standing at the front of class lecturing the entire class period he broke them into groups and sort of delegated the power and productivity to the students. The students had to do the learning and work themselves instead of it being spoon fed to them. Some of the students struggled with parts of the sections and would ask questions. Some of the students were just being lazy and wanted an easy way out so he would push them to figure it out themselves. Other times there were students where he knew that they needed a little more guidance to get to the right conclusion so he would give them a little more help.
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