Observation Tasks 5 and 6: Different learning styles and differentiation – General observations

1. What do you notice? Who are the students who answer the questions? Who are the students who are quiet? Who are the students who are not focused? Some students work hard, but some walk around the class and play (they're do nothing). The students who answer the questions are Salama, Khawala, Latifa and Afeya, student who is quiet: Hajear and the student who is not focused: Sara.

     2.  Are there learners who finish activities quickly?  What do they do when they have finished? Yes, there are  like Amna and Khawla. When students have finished they're choose a book for read or work in the 'work book'.

     3.  Are there learners who do not finish a task(s)?  How does the teacher deal with them? Yes, there are learners don't finch a tasks so teacher try to encourage them to do it or send the work to home.

     4. Are there any learners with special needs?  What kind of special needs do you think they have? How does the teacher deal with them? Yes, there are one student in the class. She doesn't speak so teacher is aware and sensitive to this.

     5. How does the teacher manage learners with different levels/abilities? In the class have 1-4 groups differ in the level so teacher give each group suitable work.

Time	Activity (what is the learner doing?)	Notes (what happens during the activity?)
8.30	Teacher gives out a “quick copy write” activity to do in groups.	Sara is working on the activity but is writing the word wrong so she is looking to her friend to get the answers. She is finding it difficult because in the beginning of class she was not listening to the words.
8.50	Teacher plays a game with the  whole class.	Sara is walking around the class, is not playing.

After the observation

1. How many different activities did the learner do? Four: spelling word, work in "book work", stage show and spelling centre.
2. How did she/he interact with the other learners throughout the day? She is interact with all, but she is prefer to play/work alone.
3. What was the longest period of time the learner spent focusing on one activity? 20 minutes.
4. What did the learner do during the break times? Some of them play and some eat the lunch.
5. What did the learner’s attention span / interest during activities seem like? To the finch the activity.
6. What did the learner seem to like doing the most / least during the day? Song a sing.