Table 12:

RAKWC B Ed EPR Practicum : MCT/MST Assessment Report

EPR Student Assessment Criteria:

This report is to be completed by the Mentoring School Teacher in consultation with the Mentoring
College Teacher and refers to teaching competencies in the High School.
Date: 09/11/2016
School: GEMS Name of MST:
Name of Student: Fatima Ali Name of MCT: Garnel Desravins

Please add specific comments about the student teachers observed strengths during this teaching
practicum and identify areas in which you feel further development is necessary.

Observed Strengths: / Areas in which further development is needed:

* Classroom is better organized. *There were no alignment between the objectives and the
activity. According to your lesson plan, they were to simply
*You appear much more comfortable than last lesson. identify big and small shadow which would not be a
The rules were reinforced. challenging objective for grade 2 two students.

*Better preparation. All the materials were on the table *Lesson plan lacks details. There were no activity
with all the instructions. descriptions nor procedures.

*Provide students with a more appropriate worksheet. It looks

too small and the instructions were not clear.

*Improve questioning techniques. For the inquiry, higher

order thinking questions are needed. What happened? Is a
broad question and should not be used as an analysis question.

*The board activity using the position of various position in

relation to the light should could have been used in group
while students record their finding.
*Lesson was too teacher centered.

General Comments: Fatima, this lesson was much better than the previous. The classroom was very well managed and
much more organized than last time. There were very good activities but they were not well executed. For example, the
students did investigate the effect of an object distance to a light source on the size of the shadow. This activity could have
incorporated all of the science process skills. However, it lacked structure. The students were only given 5 minutes to
the explore the concept while over 30 minutes was spent on whole class instruction

Aim for Next lesson