OBSERVATION AS A LEARNING TOOL
its goal is to make classroom observation a learning experience.
The purpose of this book is to encourage these types of learning processes among beginning and practicing teachers.
WHO OBSERVES
-trainee trainers who observe teachers and traince teachers.
- trainee teachers who abserve teachers
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-teacher trainers who observe trainces teaching
-teacher developers who observe teachers as part of a school-based support system
Conflict of real world
FOR WHAT PURPOSE? give
guidance or structure to the process of observation.
Who is this book for?
-the trainee teacher
people involve in school-based support
- people involved in trainer training
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- the teacher
THE TEACHER
The trainer
THE TRAINER
Why a book on observation?
it helps teachers better understand their own teaching
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Why a book on observation?
What are observation tasks ?
Why tasks
teaching behavior and learning behavior
A theoretical framework
A model of teacher development
seek and understand the teaching and learning processes in their own classrooms and those of others.
The nature of help
The importance of the classroom
The trainability of observation skills
analyze what is happening in their own classrooms to help them make better career decisions.
The importance of task-based experience
Guidelines for peer observation
A- General principles
Observation should have a focus, observers should are specific procedures, the observes should remain an observer
B- Suggested procedures
Arrange a pre-observation
identify a focus for the observation
develop procedures
carry out the observation and arrange a post-observation session
HOW THE TASKS ARE ORGANISED
5. Teaching skills and strategies
4. The lesson
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3. Learning
6. Classroom management
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7. Materials and resources
1. The learner
2. Language
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HOW TO USE THE TASKS
The trainer's role
possible scenarios
Set tasks as a exercise to be done in class.
Set an observation task on a one-to-one basis or small group level
The context of trainer training
The context of school-based teacher support
The trainer teacher
Performance and observation
Training should prepare them for the kinds of processes they will encounter as teachers.
Goals and guidelines
The teacher
Collect data on a particular aspect of your teaching and initiate and participate in an action research program that investigates a particular form of activity in the classroom
Some guiding principles for observing
Superstitions
A word of caution
-.A key element in the various patterns of the classroom is the human factor the individual teacher, learner, observer.
Attention is needed in sensitive areas for the experience of observation to be a success
Conflict of real world
Guidelines for observation by student teachers
A- Intruduction
teachers vare busy professionals
B- Procedures
visitors should contact the cooperating teacher for a brief orientation to the class