Deborah Schaffer

POST-OBSERVATION FORM

How did you feel about the lesson?
I felt fine. I never get to do everything I plan. I feel like now for the rest of the week I can do what I wanted to.
Actually on Friday, we didn’t get anything done because we had been studying natural disasters. They were so interested in talking about natural disasters and dying.
In the mainstream class, they will be starting severe weather in a couple of weeks, so the students will be so prepared for that. We did all natural disasters. In the class, they will be studying weather natural disasters.
I usually try to preview what is going on in the mainstream.


How did student behaviors compare with what you expected?

No surprises.

Do you think the content objectives were met?

The students were able to describe weather. Later they will describe seasons.

Do you think the language objectives were met?
We didn’t get to the grammar specific objectives on the lesson plan yet, but we did describe weather in complete sentences using weather specific vocabulary.


Do you feel that the ELL modifications were adequate?
Yes


If a co-taught or co-planned lesson, were you satisfied with the collaborative roles and responsibilities?
We don’t co-teach, but I know what they are doing in the mainstream class and try to preview that content. When appropriate, I try to teach language arts through the content.
We use many resources. We use Hampton-Brown and Rigby. For example, we used The Ant story to preview the water cycle.
We read Barge Cat about a Cat that was caught in a flood.
Every week I get a paper that says what they are doing in language arts for the week, and I have a schedule what they are doing in science and social studies.


What will you do the same and what will you do differently if you do this lesson again?
I wouldn’t have bothered going over all of the vocabulary that we did that I feel they knew. It would have given me time to read. I wish we had gotten to the reading.