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Primary

Teaching•What impact does teaching have on learners’ progress,personal development and achievement? How well do the students learn and achieve?

• Which strategies are effective / less effective? Why might that be?

• What happens as a result of the teacher’s interventions? Is iteffective? Why/why not?

•To what extent does the teacher overcome the barriers tolearning? E.g. students’ functioning in literacy, numeracy andICT?• How effective is behaviour management? Does it support learning- which strategies do you note are particularly effective?

• How does the teacher foster / inhibit positive attitudes tolearning?

Learning•How well do students respond to the teaching? What are students’ levels of motivation, effort, response and absorption of information and enjoyment?

How well do students behave? Do they have positive attitudes to learning? If so, why? If not, why not?

Is the pace / rate of learning appropriate? If so, why? If not,why not? [relate to teaching / students’ functioning in literacy /numeracy / ICT etc]

AchievementWhat do students know and understand? What can students do? How does this relate to what they are capable of and to their progress?

Does the teaching stretch them? Could they achieve more? If so, what has hindered them?

Differential achievement – How well are different groups doing? What proportion of students is working at different levels? {Boys, Girls, More able G&T, less able, SEN, EAL etc.} Are all students doing as well as they can? Is progress in learning being made?

Standards• Indicate what students can and cannot do;• What standards are students attaining to in the lesson? Are these in-line / below / above national expectations?•How is progress planned for/noted?

Class Name Year Group

Lesson/Curriculum Area

Focus of Observation

Resources Used

Lesson Observation Notes

My Responses to the Lesson

Evaluation (how were the objectives achieved)

Classroom Observation Sheet p.86 SD HandbookKey headings

Teaching Strategies Pupil Learning- how do you know?

Questions to ask teacher What could happen next?

The Early Years Foundation StageObserving children’s learning

Discuss:What are these children showing you they

can already do?How could you support their next steps in

learning?