Evaluation of Perimeter and Area 2

From Teach

What Went Well

• Much quieter than yesterday.
• Paige was restrained.
• I used some praise, which was in short supply in the last 'crisis' lesson.
• Announcing "two more minutes" for completion of the starter, then bringing forward the deadline when several students complained.
• The first time I had asked the students to use Red-Amber-Green to evaluate their understanding of the subject.

What could be improved

• A number of students have asked Mrs Howe for harder work.
• There was still low-level unrest.
• The pace is too slow.
• My voice is the same, whether I am talking one-on-one or to the whole class.
• I'm not teaching enough to the whole class.
• I'm not spending enough time on the main part of the lesson.
• I must not prepare my answers to the questions in class. It's piss-poor, apparently. I must have them all prepared before the lesson.
• I set up the solution to one question as a simple equation. Then I realised they had not done equations before.
• I need to be sensitive to K's situation and not announce to the whole class that she is doing extra maths classes.
• Idea for a general Plenary: how would you summarise the lesson for a student has been absent?
• Get the students to mark their own extension work.

TO DO

• Get the full seating plan for this classroom decided and printed.
• I must always distribute more questions for the main part -- not the starter -- than even the brightest students can handle. Perhaps consider different worksheets for the more able.
• Use Merit Stickers!