Observation Sheet Questioning

(Please complete this form for both primary and secondary professional experiences and
place in your ePortfolio)
Graduate Standards - AITSL
Professional Knowledge:
Professional Practice:
learning

1. Know students and how they learn

2. Plan and implement effective teaching and

Question Type
yes
Do you feel your questions
were clearly structured and
readily understood by the
students?

yes
Did you use a variety of
question types?

What balances was there

between the various
questions types?

Consider both why and

when you made use of the
different question types?

They were related with each other taking the lesson from known to
unknown

Before the lesson to check previous knowledge, during the lesson

to check understanding and at the end to know what they learn.

Distributing and Directing Questions

Did you recognise any
I think it was a pattern of going from known to unknown, easy to
pattern in the distribution of tough. It was because we need the students to learn
your questions amongst the
students? Consider
reasons for this pattern?

How have you directed

questions to the group?

I asked question and ask students to raise their hands who know
the answer.

yes
Have you used wait time?

yes
Did you make eye contact
with the group as you
directed your questions?

Reactions to Students Responses

How do you deal with
correct responses? Do you
qualify any praise given?

How do you deal with

incorrect responses? How
do you deal with students
who stumble and grope for
an answer?

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Yes, i praise them saying perfect answer, very good, great.

Simply by saying sorry thats a wrong answer. And instruct

all the students not to grope for an answer, just raise your
hands.

What use do you make of

the students responses to
develop the teaching point?
Have you redirected any
questions in order to add to
an initial response?

Yes sometimes I make a relation by saying as he give the answer

and then relate it to the topic.

Yes, during the lesson it was only me.

Are you the only evaluator
of the students answers?

Overall Comments

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It was a great experience I was quite nervous before the experience but when i
actually started it, I found all the teachers were so good and helpful and also the
students were very well mannered. Observation Sheet Management
(Please complete this form for both primary and secondary professional experiences and
place in your e portfolio)
Graduate Standards AITSL
Professional Practice:
1. Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments
2. Planning for Effective Management

Was your lesson plan

effective for managing the
class?
e.g. How did the students
react to your lesson overall
and to your planned
activities?
Did anything unexpected
happen?

Yes

Students were interested and fully involved in learning.

There was one student with autism and he refuse to sit with the
class but mentor teacher help to involve that student.

Did you provide a variety of

activities?
Yes
Were you satisfied with
your timing, particularly for
the end of the lesson?
Did you feel you were able
to change things if needed?

Yes

Yes

Were you aware of

classroom procedures and
school disciplinary policy?
How much did you know
about your students?

Not much actually, but teachers helped me any time when needed.
And for students i observe all of them during the first and second
day. By the end of prac I recognise them and know their names.
Also i was aware of who are naughty, studious or dull students.

How did your mentor

teacher maintain a safe
learning environment?
What strategies did your
observe your mentor
teacher using to maintain
this?

She maintain by giving instructions before teaching. Sometimes

she give a pause in lesson to get full attention, she always says if
you will take my time i will take yours and you will be late for
lunch.

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Maintaining a Positive Attitude in the Classroom

How did you demonstrate to By praising them, being polite with them, good facial expression.
the students that you valued
them, and enjoyed
learning?
e.g. Tone of voice, facial
expression, sense of
humour, introduction to
students and topic.
Which aspects of your
teaching style do you feel
helped you maintain class
attention?

Student centred variety of activities and questioning

e.g. Variety of activities,

class or group discussion,
pace of lesson, interest at
class level.
Did the students know what
was expected of them?

They have an idea with prior knowledge testing questions

Were you able to redirect

energies of attention
seeking students? Did the
students have enough
to do?

I planned the entire lesson to cover the time. So yes I was able to
redirect energies of attention seeking students.

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Dealing with Minor Misbehaviour

Were you aware of what
was happening in all parts
of the classroom? Did you
know what each student
was doing?

Yes i was observing all the students.

Did you take any action

when you observed poor
behaviour? Why? Why
not?

Yes, i ask them to stop. If again they start the same i give them a
warning that is this silly and you are disturbing the class please
stop or i will let you sit at the back.

Did you use non-verbal

cues? e.g. Contact, pause,
gesture, movement toward
student/s concerned.

yes

Overall Comments

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It was fine. I was able to maintain silence and discipline in the class. Schools
looking at the whole school

as text

Describe the school in terms of

its demographics, appearance
and resources (be general here
and do not name the school).

The school has a very big building, beautifully structured. It

has all required resources for the physical and mental
development of students.

What were the roles and

responsibilities of the teaching
staff you observed?

Teachers have lot of responsibilities apart from teaching.

They look for maintaining discipline, during functions or
sports day they have different duties, they look for the
overall development of students.

After discussion with your

mentor teacher describe how
policies and processes of
government, administration and
schools have an affect on the

Teachers have to follow the instructions given by the school

and they have to work under the policies made by
government and school administration. They have had to
aware of all education policies and if there are any changes
in them from time to time.

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work of the teacher?

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What did you observe non-teaching

staff doing to support teaching and
learning in the school?

They helps in cleaning the school and make it a safer

place for students.

Students
You will have observed the
diverse nature of your classes.
How was this diversity
supported?

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There were diverse students in the class. Some students

needs to get simple instructions.

Function of Schools
Did you observe the connection
of your schools with the broader
community? How did this
happen?

There were assemblies of students where they were taught

the history of Australia and aboriginal people. There were
function to show the culture to students.

What do you think the function

of school is?

There are various functions of a school. It teaches, build

knowledge, teaches punctuality, discipline, manners, moral
education, overall development of students and personality
development

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