Mrs. B’s Corner

There are a set of questions the textbook recommends to help stimulate thinking as it applies to observing a classroom. I’ll definitely be adding them to my list.

1. What surprised you about what you observed? What was unexpected?
2. What were the teacher’s goals? From what you could tell, were they achieved?
3. If you had the same goals, what would you have done?
4. How did the students appear to be responding during the class? Were they all involved? Most of them? Just a few? What could have been done to improve their involvement?
5. What, if anything, was different about these students from the way you and your classmates were at their age? Were there striking similarities?