Support Observation Essay

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Most often when observations are taking place you will be in a supportive role unless you are observing for your professional development. Whether you are observing a teacher or another TA or HLTA or you are in a supportive role you should look at all the different aspects of teaching that is going on.
Steps to follow if in a supportive role:
1. Before an observation takes place, it is a good idea to talk with the teacher who you are supporting to get a brief overview about the learning objective, the learning episodes that will take place to meet that objective and where he or she wants you to be positioned in the class and which children you will be specifically supporting.

2. When the observation takes place you as well as the teacher are …show more content…

At the beginning of the observation whilst the teacher is giving the initial input you may be asked to do an ‘overall’ role, keeping children on task, behaviour management etc but at the same time not distracting the teacher or other pupils from the learning taking place.

4. After the initial input and the children are set off on task, depending on how the children are organised (ability or mixed ability) you could be working with a focus group or moving around the classroom. If you are asked to work with a group it is a good idea to record any key learning points what pupils have done well or struggled with, this can be done on a TA feedback sheet and this can be shared with the class teacher after the observation.

5. Once the children have completed the task the teacher will do a plenary to check understanding. This is a good opportunity for pupils to share what they have learnt and an ideal time for you to communicate with the teacher about good examples of work you have seen from pupils you have worked with, or encourage those children who aren’t has confident in sharing their work.

6. Finally, the observer will give feedback to the teacher, you may be invited to this but if not, the teacher you worked with will give you some feedback themselves after to inform you of how the observation

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