Formal Feedback 2012

4 September 2012: The feedback recieved from this lesson was useful to me as it was very complimentary, whilst providing some areas for improvement. Areas that were improved as a result of this feedback were:

• Time management
• consistency in discipline strategies.
• classroom management - always monitor children during lessons

24 August 2012: This feedback from my Supervisor was useful in that again, it was complimentary though provided suggestions for improvement that I had not considered, such as:

• implementing 'brain gym' activities or group stretches in between lessons\
• ensuring that children have all instructions before proceeding with lesson (even checking a few to answer the question: "Harry, what have I asked you to do?"
• Ensure that the children are focused during share time, and change the activity if not.
• use of 'positive talk' rather than focusing on the negative during class to build self esteem / provide good role models.
  
• use of calming activities / exercises between lessons to relax unruly or over excited children - I began using calming classical music and breathing exercises if I felt this was really needed.

24 July 2012: The feedback received from this lesson gave me a great deal of confidence as it was very supportive of my teaching style. My personal relection of this lesson is below also. 

10 September 2012: This was the first time I had received feedback for a daily program.  As a result of this feedback, I began to:

• notice and control the the level of noise during class.
• encourage students to share and learn from each other more - such as presenting work and explaining their thinking.
  
• monitor children more when completing 'circle time'