Lesson Observation Processing

Instructions: Let's take a moment to process the observations that you carried out of your assigned learners. Use the prompts below to guide your conversation.

Background Information: 

• What course did you observe?
• What was the topic of the lesson?
• In a few words, describe the sequence of activities that students engaged in.

Students:

• What were you able to observe or infer about students' demographics?
• What could you observe or infer about their personalities and attitudes toward learning?
• What were there strengths as learners?
• Imagine you were the teacher of this course, what would be challenging about working with this particular group of learners?

Content and Materials:

• What didactic materials were used in the lesson?
• What is your opinion about the appropriateness of those materials for this context?
• What is your opinion about how effectively those materials were used in this lesson?

Questions and Takeaways: 

• What doubts or questions do you have about the learners or context?
• Can you think of any questions you would like to ask the teacher to resolve these doubts?
• What insights are you taking away from this observation that are relevant to your context and needs analysis research?