Teacher Supervision Report and Recommendations

The teacher in this particular video decides to do a lesson on close-reading because this is something that is highlighted by the Common Core, as something that is important for the students to know how to do. I noticed that teacher went through this read-aloud lesson very slow, and that is something that is a must for close-reading any kind of text. I also noticed that the student engagement increased over time, as the conversations progressed throughout the lesson. I felt that all of the students seemed to be actively engaged, because the teacher had them listening, recording information in their notebooks and participating in partner and group shares.

The teacher demonstrated that she established rapport with students because this video captures that she has created a positive learning environment that is both welcoming and safe. It looks as though she has managed her class effectively because the students show respect by remaining on task, and they cooperate well with their pairs and as a class as a whole. She was also very consistent throughout the whole video with regards to giving her students feedback to their responses, and she was consistent with giving positive reinforcements like “that is brilliant”. The teacher also was able to deepen student learning by building on their responses by allowing one student to answer a particular question, but then she would allow other students to explained or add onto that students answer, without her just jumping in and giving the correct answer herself, which promotes thinking and makes them have to apply the literacy strategies that she taught them to be able to understand the text. This showed them respect by allowing adequate wait-time which gave her students the ability...

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..., not just listening to see where they should label something on their maps. I would also like to see a KWL chart, in which the students would fill out what they already know about gorillas, what they want to know, and then I would have them revisit the chart after reading both books to fill in what they learned, and then they could keep this chart as a future reference for a quiz. For differentiated instruction, I could have students do these read/think alouds in groups that I pick, that will have a variety of students with different reading levels in the same group, so they could teach each other, and I would monitor the process. I would also give them an option to do it individually, but I would make them compare what they thought with at least two other people, so students will see from other student’s point of view and know whether or not they are on track.