Observing in Classrooms Paul Hopkins Partnership Tutor

Environment What is the classroom layout? What is the basis for groups / groupings? How are resources organised? How is display used? What is the learning environment?

Lesson Starts How do the pupils enter the room? How does teacher introduce the lesson? What do you think is the purpose of the lesson? How are the resources handed out? How are aims / objectives set?

During the lesson What kinds of tasks are the pupils set? –Discussions, problems, questions, written tasks, practical tasks, experiments etc… What resources are used? And how are they organised? How does the lesson progress from one activity to another? How is the pace of the lesson maintained? How is work differentiated? What teacher-pupil and pupil-pupil interactions take place? What kind of assessments take place? [Oral, Formative, Summative, Diagnostic] How are pupils prepared for the end of the lesson?

After the lesson How do the pupils leave the room? What did the pupils learned in the lesson? Has the lessons achieved its aims? How engaged were the pupils with the learning? What was the dynamic of the class? How did assessment for the learning take place?

Observing in Classrooms Paul Hopkins Partnership Tutor