As part of my qualifications for my social studies methods class, not only was I teaching but I had to observe my classmates teaching. During fieldwork, there were two group that would teach the lesson and then alternate and reteach the session while the colleagues watched them teach. The fieldwork time was broken up into 25 minute intervals for each group to teach. I will be talking about my observations between group 3 and group 4. I observed direct instruction, inquiry and cooperative learning lesson plans from both groups. If there was one thing that I learned from these observations is to always be prepared for anything and that time restrictions are important to be aware of. Due to time restrictions, the lessons were not completely finished. There were times where the lessons went over 15 minutes. This can cause a huge back up or delay in the day's schedule. I have also learned that it is very difficult to stick with these time restraints. Every day is different in the classroom and you cannot predict what is going to happen. Now I am going to break down my observations by group to make it easier to follow.
Group 3:
Without a doubt, every time that I observed this group there was always a teacher standing in front of the projector. This was very distracting because the words were unreadable. I learned two things from this: 1. Rearrange your classroom if it is too crowded in front of the projector. 2. Never stand directly in front of the projector, when necessary, point from the side of the projector. I loved how they keeps the students involved during the direct instruction by having a worksheet for the students to follow along with.
Group 4:
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