Task 6

Documenting a typical primary school science lesson

Focus: On the many roles of the primary school science coordinator / teacher within the
school:

Objectives:
For student teachers to:
 Continue to develop positive working relationships with both the teacher and the students
by acting as a TA within the classroom under the direction of the MST.

  Observe a science lesson and complete Table 9: Documenting a typical primary

school science lesson which provides an overview of the structure of a science lesson.

 You will need:

 The Teaching Practice Tasks booklet for Practicum 3b
 Table 9: Documenting a typical primary school science lesson
 A digital camera
 Table 4: TP Discussion Board Guidelines

Before implementing these tasks:

 Discuss each of these tasks with your partner. Decide what each of you will do. Discuss the
tasks with your MST. (Ask for permission to take photographs)

Whilst implementing the Tasks:

 Make notes about any areas of interest or issues you would like to discuss with your MCT
and/or MST.
 Photograph evidence for the tasks and portfolio.

After completion of the tasks:

1. Complete Table 6: Documenting a typical primary school science lesson. PDF and
upload it to of your TP e-portfolio. Email tasks, etc. to gdesravins@hct.ac.ae using the
correct file names/subject lines.

2. Complete your TP Discussion Board posts on BB Learn and reply to 2 others.

 Table 6: ‘The Structure of a typical Primary School Science Lesson.
Comment on: What the Science Teacher
does.
(include a photo of each
stage)
The teacher she Greetings
the students by saying good
morning, how are you, then
she asks them to get out their
science book.
Greetings
If the teacher has a new
lesson and its linked to the
previous lesson she gives
them a question to know
Introduction to
their prior knowledge to
LOs/SOs/
warm then for the new
revision of
lesson but if they have a new
prior learning
lesson she makes an activity
to engage then like what she
does in this lesson she let
them imagine.
The teacher was showing the
student's pictures of key
Focus on a
vocab on the lesson to let
specific
them understand easily and
content/Key
she used a visual strategy.
terms/ process
Methods of
teaching and
engagement
What the Students Comments
do. Document what you found
(include a photo of interesting; any issues that arose
each stage) and how they were resolved;
Would you have taught any part of
this lesson differently?
The students were What I found interesting that when
taking out their the teacher enters the class the
book and clean students start to smile and that
their tables because shows me that the teacher and
they have a student have a good relationship.
previous lesson
then they was ready
for the lesson.
The students In this part that I found a lot of the
interacted with the students has imagination and the
teacher and they teacher using a different voice.
excited to imagine
also they answer
the teacher
question.
Some Students they For this part, I think if she prints a
understood what key vocab and their meaning and
she said but some the related picture to put it on the
they were not able board to let the easy to memorize.
to understand but
she explains for
then again by the
different way by
drawing for them
and the students ask
a different question
and they interacted
with the teacher.
 The teacher explains to the The students follow The teacher should develop their
students each group will the teacher Explore activity by developing
Exploratory
have 3 pictures and a instruction and they Knowledge using explorations,
Activities
question sheet. They have to answer the investigations, experiments.
answer the question by questions by
looking at the pictures. looking at the
pictures.
The teacher monitoring the The students ask
Monitoring,
students by walking around the teacher "Ms can
supporting and
while they work and she said you came here we
assessing
for them if you want any have a question".
learning
help just raise your hand and
I will help you and she helps
some groups.
For the finishing activity, the The students solved It's a good strategy because that shows the
Finishing off’ teacher was let the students the question and teacher how many students understand the
Review / Recap open their book and solve some students were lesson it’s kind of formative assessment.
the question individually. need for a help but
they were able to
solve it.
The teacher thanks the The students What are the founding interesting the
students for this lesson and interact with the students if they like and understand the
Goodbyes and
then she says for them see teacher then they do lesson they were drawing in their face a smil
transitions to
you, next class, then she asks what the teacher but if they didn't understand the lesson they
the next lesson
them to clean up their tables asks them to do. were feeling sad.
and return back their book
and take out the book for the
next class.