Observation Form

Cadet Teacher Intern: Maddie Brink School District: Hartford

Mentor Teacher: Wendy Spangler
Observation Date: April 20, 2016
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Official Observation 3

OBSERVATION TASKS
Remains calm and shows patience and understanding in the classroom.
Maddie is such a natural! Today was a day to Think with the Box and
she developed a polka dot wrapped box that her 2nd graders. Their job
was to toss the box in the air and where their finger landed that was
their word to look up 5 synonyms and create a spring flower with them!
Super fun!!
Uses classroom management procedures.
She had the kids get on the carpet and discussed with raised hands and
thumbs up for understanding of what a noun, adjective, synonym and
antonym was. Then she gave specific directions as to the order the
assignment should go.
Appropriately manages student behaviors.
Maddie is no nonsense when it comes to classroom management.
She told them if they were not respectful, didnt stay on task, didnt
follow directions, etc. she would NOT open the magic box she had on
Mrs. Spanglers desk. This really motivated them to be good!
Communicates clearly with appropriate age-level vocabulary and
volume.
Her volume is always clear and direct. Maddie has the best teacher
voice!! She challenges her students to always do the right thing. She
acts and sounds like a teacher and a leader!
Provides appropriate feedback to the students. Lots of feedback was
supplied to the students partly because they were participating in small
tables with their flower project. Both Mrs. Spangler and Ms. Maddie
were going to tables to help kids just like team teachers!!
Shows respect for the students and mentor teacher.
Lots of respect going on in all directions Maddie is very much seen as
another extension of a teacher. They want to please her too!
Demonstrates flexibility & responsiveness to the students.
Maddie is pretty good about explaining directions to students in
laymans terms so they understand completely. She is upbeat and
positive which is how she is in life!! She has really grown so much as a
2nd year student!

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Additional Comments:
This is a really awesome activity to get kids to think about just what a
synonym is. The words were not necessarily the ones they wanted to get
and when one girl asked if she and another student could trade words
the answer was firmly NO! The box had spoken! The activity was also
really good to practice using their Ipads to be able to look up their
information. The box idea could really be used for a multitude of lesson
plans and Maddies lesson was really creative and the kids learned and
loved the artsy portion. The kids were good, they were proud of the end
result and they earned the right for Ms. Maddie to open the secret box
and to get the candy inside as a reward for a job well done.
I loved Maddies dress she wore today. She is always professional and a
class act in her choice of dress for her classroom!
Suggested Improvements:
My only suggestion would be to take as many opportunities to teach as
she possibly can!!
Overall score: 100/100 A

Alicia Prause
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Cadet Teacher Intern

Sheri Johnsen

Cadet Teacher Academy

Instructor/Coordinator