Reflection of the evaluation overview for sixth grade language arts lesson

  I’m sorry that I lost a lot of detailed content of my evaluation compared to the evaluation overview given by NIET.

  NIET gives concrete evidence notes for each rate of rubrics and clarify the reason about why they give the teacher different level of points, but I just wrote an overview of some rubrics and did not give detailed evidence notes for evaluation. The teacher who gives this class must prefer the evaluation from NIET, not me. In addition, I ignored teachers’ behavior to different children and students’ attitude towards to teacher in class. I also didn’t know that I should record all this dynamic information include teacher’s words and behavior before I evaluated a class. Well, evaluation does is a difficult work for teachers.

  I think the teacher of this class used Gagne’s nine events of instruction for teaching, Piaget’s theory for helping students construct knowledge.

  As you can see, she asked students a question in the beginning of class that “What do you go? What do you do? What are you thinking about? How do you do deal with those strong emotional feelings?” And she also asked other relevant questions closed to the major objective consistently. She used verbal questions to draw and gain students attention successfully. She informed students of the objective that they need to make the inference by connections, but she didn’t stimulate recall of prior learning. She demonstrated to students how to make inference in order to elicit their performance and provided guidance and instruction in students’ group working. Absolutely, she provided feedback when students showed their working consequence to her and encourage them to think deeper and discover new reference from the same material. She also enhanced retention and transfer by asking students to talk about their own story and make connection with class objective in the end. She did so good in implementing Gagne’s theory.

  Students in six grade may almost 12 years old, the teacher realized this point and try her best to help students think logically by demonstrating and connected the story with students’ personal experience to lead them formulate their own ideas in terms of Piaget’s theory about children’s cognitive progress.

  Maybe she implemented other theories into her class I don’t realize, I think she had performed so good already by using Gagne and Piaget’s theories.