Teacher Candidate Observation Instrument (TCOI)

Initial Candidate (Student Teaching)

Candidate __Najma Bennett___ Date _November 8, 2018___Observer __Sherry Minor Subject/Time _ELA 10:00
Scoring- NATR (Not Able to Rate) 1- Not Demonstrated, 2- Partially Demonstrated, 3- Adequately Demonstrated, 4- Effectively
Demonstrated, 5- Exceptionally Demonstrated (See Indicators and Evidence)
Planning
I- 1a & 1b Possesses and applies content knowledge across the curriculum
Score: Comments:
5 Miss Bennett has done a great applying what she has learned across the curriculum.

II- 3a Understands and uses best practices, various learning theories, subject matter, curriculum development, and learner
development to make curricular and instructional decisions.
Score: Comments:
5 Miss Bennett instructs the whole child.
II- 3 b Develops lesson plans using a variety of instructional methods, resources, and technology that support knowledge of
learner development.
Score: Comments:
5 Miss Bennett’s lesson plans are done with each student in mind. She has a variety of ways that she reaches
each child.
Instruction
I- 1b Practices and encourages critical thinking, problem-solving and innovation to meet students’ needs.
Score: Comments:
4 Miss Bennett pushes the students to think critically.
I- 2a Understands constructivism as it pertains to student learning and students creating their own meaning.
Score: Comments:
5 Miss Bennett encourages the students to use different techniques to be creative, to reflect on and talk about
what they are doing.
III- 7a, 7b Understands and uses various formal and informal assessments.
Score: Comments:
5 Miss Bennett assess the students before and after instruction to see where they are and what she needs to
teach to each student.
III- 8a, 8b Knows and uses a variety of self-assessment (reflective) strategies to change professional and/or pedagogical
behaviours.
Score: Comments:
5
Classroom Environment/ Management
2b Creates a learning community that bolsters the tenets of constructivism by encouraging student interaction and
participation in purposeful activities.
Score: Comments:
5 Mis Bennett does a great job getting the students involved and interacting with the lesson.
II-4a, 4b Demonstrates an understanding of diversity by structuring the classroom to provide for the learning needs of a
broad range of diverse learners.
Score: Comments:
5 Miss Bennett is very conscientious of the diversity of students in our classroom.
II-5a, 5b Creates and uses a viable classroom management plan to enhance the classroom climate.
Score: Comments:
4 Mis Bennett does a great job with the students.
II-6a, 6b Understands and demonstrates methods of fostering effective interpersonal relationships in the classroom.
Score: Comments:
5 Both students and parents love Miss Bennett.