Observation Task 7: Classroom management and teacher talk

Focus: Classroom Management

Procedure:
1. Record what the teacher says throughout the day. Fill in the table completely with her
exact words.

Beginning and ending the day

teacher arrives
before the pupils

Punctuality at the beginning of

the lesson choose one: learners arrive
most on time

positive reinforcement Dont do it again for the first timers

She warning those who come

Teachers response to those who
negative reinforcement twitce late
are late. What does she say?

Time out
punishment

She welcomes kids and asks them about their day how was it and
gives them a high five and morning dance
Starting the day:
She dances with with them
What does the teacher say?
What does the teacher do?

Lining up : location Before they go to the playground and before they go to wash
How do the children line up? their hands

Teacher instructions for lining up: She claps and lets them know to stand up
What does the teacher say?
 What does the teacher do?
She dosent do line up as l side but she tell them to bring their
books and sit in their seats

Ending the day:

What does the teacher say? She claps for the kids and tell the kids how well they did in class
What does the teacher do? She gives them high five and give them stars of sweet
Moving
She sets a timer at the end of the time she tells them to come up
Moving the children for a new
to the rug and startd explain the other activites
activity.
What does the teacher say?
What does the teacher do?

Moving the children:

How do they respond? They understand what she says and do exactly what she asks

Misbehaviour

When a child misbehaved:

What was the learner doing? Some studients makes noise and hit each othher

What does the teacher say? She gives them time out and let them apoligize
What does the teacher do?

How did the child respond?

They know they did something wrong from the time out

How does the teacher stop the

children during an activity? She has a timer when it stops she tells them to drop anything
they have in their hand