Lesson Plan◦ Lesson Idea◦ Refining the Lesson Plan

Observation Process (Points of interest, challenges)◦ Scribing◦ Observer

Learning Points

Q&A

PLC 1 Sharing

Purpose: ◦ Getting students to take ownership of their own learning ◦ Emphasise to students the importance of the learning

process rather than the grade

Plan: Guided self-assessment of timed assessment◦ ½ of lesson to make clear the demands of the essay

(equip students with a detailed understanding of requirements of the essay question)

◦ ½ of lesson to give students time to evaluate their own work with some justification & reflect on what they have learnt.

Lesson Idea

Lesson Idea

Procedures Duration

1. Establish main ideas required in the essay via Thinking Table analysis

25min

2. Show Essay comparison between Tutorial 7 & TA2 question

3. Analyse Common Errors Students made

4. Students go through their answer with the aid of the marking scheme, suggested answers

25min

5. Students write down the band they fall into for content and evaluation on the self-assessment form. They make some justification and reflect on their performance

To suit class profile Reduce number of activities due to time

constraint Handing out materials to students to

facilitate students’ note-taking Trial and error

Refining the Lesson

Scribing◦ Capture lesson

procedures and all sorts of conversations as far as possible – both teacher’s and students’ responses and reactions (mainly factual and objective)

Main Observer◦ Able to focus on big

picture – usually involves a layer of interpretation, reflections with feelings and emotions

◦ Environment – open and non-threatening (positive psychology)

Observation Process

Learning about Students◦ Learn more about how students learn◦ Learn how the same strategies can be applied to

different context

Learning by Teachers: ◦ Allow teachers to learn from each other - to draw on

strengths◦ Raise self-awareness of teachers about their teaching ◦ Time and space is required to:Do up resources,

modify lessons to suit class profile, reflect and conduct post-observation sessions

Learning Points