First Observation Day

On october the 15th, I had my first observation day at St. Andrew's. I was in grade 6 and observed the intensive core french program. Alot of the children did really well with the french but I noticed some did not speak French or spoke only necessarily. The students were really smart and energetic but from learning about classroom management last year, I felt there was little routine to help the children settle down after lunch and recess. In the morning they had their quiet time while the teacher sets up for the next lesson.
After class on tuesday, I rethunk what I said about my experience. I felt I came on too harshly about my teacher. But really he was a great teacher just use a loud/shouting voice to gain control over the classroom. He was enthusastic about all the lessons and really enjoyed the students but like I said just classroom management was a bit shaky. He did not have lessons plans mapped out but just a quick Science observation at such such time or Math-whole number this time. But that worked for him. He did not do everything at a strict pace. He was constantly aware of the students need to stay with something for extra time.
But I was very lucky to observe a Math lesson on my observation day. They were learning about whole numbers and decimal places. He took an impicit teaching approach. He would ask them to read the numbers on the pages about the area of a country. They had to tell which one was bigger and why. I thought this was amazing how he probed the students for the answers. After being in a class with Linda Laite and learning about questioning, it was so amazing to see it being used. He kept asking questions in order to get students to arrive at the answer.
I'm learning so much in my observation days. It just helps put everything that we learned thus far into context.