School Mentor Lesson Observation 1

Student teacher’s name: Fatima Al Shamsi Grade: One

Unit/Lesson: 2/11 Date: Monday, 15th. Oct. 2018.
Competency (E = Excellent, G = Good, S = Satisfactory, M = E G S M U
Marginal, U = Unsatisfactory)
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Commitment to the Profession

Planning for learning 

(Includes knowledge & understanding of content)
Implementing and Managing Learning 
(Includes class management, language and delivery)
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Assessment
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Reflection on Practice

Strengths of the lesson

- clear voice and good management skills
- used a range of activities (the books and the jar activity)
- established good relationships with the students and understands their
needs as she focused on the weak students and encouraged the excellent
ones.
- moved between tasks smoothly
Areas for development:
- needs to plan more carefully and think of designing more challenging
activities
- needs to work on timing and modelling the activity to make sure all the
students understood before starting doing it.
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Focus for next lesson:

More challenging activity
Allocating appropriate/enough time for each task
 School Mentor Lesson Observation 2
Student teacher’s name: Fatima Al Shamsi Grade: One
Unit/Lesson: 2/15 Date: Tuesday, 16th. Oct. 2018.
Competency (E = Excellent, G = Good, S = Satisfactory, M = E G S M U
Marginal, U = Unsatisfactory)

Commitment to the Profession

Planning for learning

(Includes knowledge & understanding of content) 
Implementing and Managing Learning 
(Includes class management, language and delivery)

Assessment

Reflection on Practice

Strengths of the lesson:

- Good classroom management strategies
- Moved between students and checked their writing and helped those who
needed help.

Areas for development:

- Need to think more creatively to engage the students
- Need to vary her assessment techniques to evaluate students’ learning
outcomes
- Work on fostering students’ recognition skill by planning appropriate
activities.
- Use hands on activities and challenge students

Focus for next lesson:

- Think more critically about what she does in the class and try to
improve/change/replace it in the next class.
 School Mentor Lesson Observation 3
Student teacher’s name: Fatima Al Shamsi Grade: One
Unit/Lesson: 3/10 Date: Wednesday, 24th. Oct. 2018.
Competency (E = Excellent, G = Good, S = Satisfactory, M = E G S M U
Marginal, U = Unsatisfactory)

Commitment to the Profession

Planning for learning 

(Includes knowledge & understanding of content)
Implementing and Managing Learning 
(Includes class management, language and delivery)

Assessment

Reflection on Practice

Strengths of the lesson:

- Reviewed letter Mm sound, how to write it and related words.

- Students were engaged and participated.
- Used the jar activity and that was a good opportunity for the students to
practise their recognition skills.

Areas for development:

- Needs to implement new activities and challenge the students more

- Needs to plan carefully and think of appropriate activities/resources for
special needs students.

Focus for next lesson:

- How can you do it better in the next session? What can you do to overcome
the difficulties you faced in this session? What are other teaching/learning
strategies you can use to motivate the students and evaluate
teaching/learning?
 School Mentor Lesson Observation 4
Student teacher’s name: Fatima Al Shamsi Grade: One
Unit/Lesson: 4/14 Date: Sunday,
11th. Nov. 2018.
Competency (E = Excellent, G = Good, S = Satisfactory, M = E G S M U
Marginal, U = Unsatisfactory)

Commitment to the Profession

Planning for learning 

(Includes knowledge & understanding of content)
Implementing and Managing Learning 
(Includes class management, language and delivery)

Assessment

Reflection on Practice

Strengths of the lesson:

- Good classroom management skills.
- Established good relationships with the students.
- Moved around to check students writing and knew exactly who needed help.
- Well prepared and varied your teaching and learning resources.
- Loved the egg activity (letter e) but you need to plan your lesson well, so you
can have time to do it with the students.
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Areas for development:
- Watch the video of how to write letter Ee before class time
- Allocate the appropriate time for each activity.
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Focus for next lesson:

- Focus more while planning especially in terms of letter sounds and writing
the letter using the provided lines in the course book.