Teaching Observation

In this assignment, you will combine all of the information you have learned this week to evaluate a teaching scenario. For each learning context, you will be observing a teacher in the classroom. After watching the video, answer the questions, based on your context, using the information from the week as your guide. Respond to the K-12.

Children or Students in a K-12 Learning Context

Watch Differentiated instruction and the English language learner (Links to an external site.)

Sections:

• Comprehensible Input
• Teachers Incorporate Comprehensible Input
• Affective Filter Theory
• Tools, Tools, Tools
• Summary: Differentiated Instruction and the English Language Learner

Address the following items in your paper:

Thinking of all of the information we have learned related to planning for ELLs,

• Describe how the teachers use comprehensible input hypothesis and what can be done to include more comprehensible input.
• Explain if and how the teachers are using communicative language teaching.
• Evaluate how students might vary in their interactions during lessons based on their proficiency with basic interpersonal communication skills (BICS) and cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP).
• Determine what language objectives might be important for ELLs to be successful in this lesson? Determine what language objectives might be important for ELLs to be successful in this lesson?

The Teaching Observation paper

• Must be two to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.) resource.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Microsoft Word (Links to an external site.).

• Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
  • For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Writing Center resources.
• Must use at least one scholarly source in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) guide.
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Writing Center for specifications.
• When submitting the weekly paper, please format submission indicating if you are answering questions from the K-12 or adult perspective by using the following format for your file upload: LastNameAssignmentTitleLevel (e.g., RobinsonTeacherObservationAdult or RobinsonTeacherObservationK12).