Deborah Schaffer

POST-OBSERVATION FORM

How did you feel about the lesson?
It was a good start.


How did student behaviors compare with what you expected?
One group didn’t get off to a good start with the balance. One boy wants to be in charge. The students are a little more antsy than usual. I also didn’t feel like myself because I had an allergic reaction. I just used baby wipes to wipe the Cat in the Hat makeup off from yesterday to get to the workshop, and I had a reaction to it.
I really don’t want to miss the games at the end. If it means we cut short the exploration games again. We can all add the math balance to the centers later.


Do you think the content objectives were met?
I’m not sure I could say for this table 3. Do I think everyone at this table can complete the problems, I think so, but they didn’t give me enough information to really know for sure. This group I could tell was really thinking. I thought she might be the first to give us three add-ons.


Do you think the language objectives were met?
I do think they talked about what they discovered.


Do you feel that the ELL modifications were adequate?
Well I worked with E one on one. It may have been better if I’d put all of the ELLs together and worked with all of them. She can do one to one correspondence. She has big gaps in her understanding. One of the other students is much more verbal.
We do lots of Responsive Classroom stuff. (It is how you set up your classroom as a community of learners. This class makes a lot of decisions about what we are going to do. It’s a child-centered. This age is such a self-centered age. There are two things I focus on. 1) Other people have other ideas to consider. 2) Focus on a positive. State things in a positive way.


Were you satisfied with the collaborative roles and responsibilities?
I have all of the special ed for the grade level the spec. ed support pushes in for math.
It would be nice if we could do more collaborative teaching with ESL. We only have one and half ESL teachers. I love working with the spec. ed teacher because she gets to see other kids and to show off her kids in positive ways. For example when they explain their steps, they explain every single step. The TAG kids need to be exposed to the students that are explaining each step.