Subject (Practical or Theory): Practical - Home Economics
Class Profile & Details: Two year groups in one class - 3rd years (3 students) + 1st years (2 students, SEN, 2 SNAs).
Duration of Lesson: Single (1 hour)
Professional teaching skills and ability
Able to use skills to help students out at any stage of their cooking - giving advice on how to do each step correctly
Helped students with difficult tasks (decorating with icing sugar)
Conversed with students as they cooked - great rapport with all students - involving all students in discussions (key skill communicating)
Motivated students with a positive + energetic attitude
Classroom management
Able to maintain complete control over 5 students from different year groups all with different recipes and needs
Moved around room to help students with different tasks
Instructed students to get equipment - giving responsibility for them to find equipment in labelled drawers / cupboards
Asked student who wanted to stay behind to help clean up - responsibility + task to focus on
Instructed students to work together “while they do ____, you do ____” - cooperation
Multitasking with different recipes
Maintained a relaxed and positive working environment in the classroom
SNAs also doing difficult / dangerous tasks (melting chocolate over hob) - considering Health & Safety
SNAs asking students to help them out by getting equipment (eg. tea towels) + thanking them for their help
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Presentation of learning content
H&S - instructed hands to be washed + aprons to be put on as soon as students enter class
Explained to students what they are doing in this class + what steps they will carry out in this lesson - important to tell students why they are doing certain activities to motivate them with an end goal in sight
Demonstrated tasks + explained verbally what they are doing + why
During demo, explained reasons why things need to be done in a specific way - what will happen if it isn’t done this way (will fall apart)
Recipe on whiteboard with images of ingredients needed
Called out ingredients from recipe + held them up at top table
Effectiveness of planning
Delivery was well paced + timed out well - as all students finished + cleaned up within class time
Teacher was confident + well versed with learning content + delivered effortlessly to students
Brought finished baked goods to the staff room as a gift to the teachers - reflection of how well students did with their cooking - sense of achievement + pride in their abilities.
Assessment and evaluation of pupils work in class
Demonstrated correct way to do different tasks if students were struggling
If students were unable to do tasks, they took over for a short period to get them back to a stage where they are able to continue on themselves - not letting them fail as it would discourage them from moving on to next step in making their recipe
Gave very positive praise + feedback to students doing well
Any additional comments on what you learned from the observation class?
Impressed to see how this teacher managed a class with 2 different year groups, with students of mixed abilities (half of them being from An Cuan - SNU) - integrated students well to be able to work alongside each other
Ability to multitask was also very impressive to see how they could help students out at any stage of their recipes without creating any kind of stress in the classroom - level headed + positive behaviour really reflected in the overall class environment.