coordinated with the lesson and provided opportunities for the pupils to purposefully use interactive and physical materials. A poem entitled was displayed on the chalkboard by the teacher and a “The Dustman” brief discussion about the title followed linking it to the sanitation worker. The poem was read twice by the teacher and the pupils repeated after her. This included banging on the desks at the words The teacher read the poem once more “Biff Bang! Crash!” while the pupils dramatized it to conclude the lesson. No cognitive terminology such as and was used by the ‘create’, ‘predict’ ‘classify’ teacher during the lesson but the instructional strategies and methods catered to the needs of the pupils to some extent in that they reflected the interests, pupils’ addressed their physical, emotional and intellectual needs and allowed them to work at their own pace. Opportunities were also afforded for pupil involvement throughout the lesson. The understanding of concepts was assessed during the lesson by pupils’ questioning and role-playing and this allowed for the assessing of each pupil based on individual levels of attainment. Lesson 4 This was a forty-minute General Science lesson integrated with Language Arts and Singing. The title was and the aim as outlined by the teacher was to ‘Sorting Garbage’ aid pupils in learning how to correctly sort garbage. The teacher used a hand puppet with a garbage bin attached to her called Ms. Jones to engage in a conversation about a litter bug that was not treating her nicely and of a message which she wanted to give to the pupils about the importance of sorting garbage. The interest was pupils’ captured when they saw the puppet and they listened attentively and quietly to the conversation. At the end of the conversation the teacher told the pupils if they think they know who Miss Jones represents to raise their hands. One child replied ‘Ms Jones is a sanitation and the teacher immediately asked for a show of hands of those children who worker’ agreed. All pupils raised their hands. Elaboration of the initial response was pupils’ sought by the teacher asking The pupils replied do you know? has a ‘How ‘She Through discussion the teacher reviewed why Ms. Jones had come to garbage bin’.
coordinated with the lesson and provided opportunities for the pupils to purposefully use interactive and physical materials. A poem entitled “The Dustman” was displayed on the chalkboard by the teacher and a brief discussion about the title followed linking it to the sanitation worker. The poem was read twice by the teacher and the pupils repeated after her. This included banging on the desks at the words “Biff Bang! Crash!” The teacher read the poem once more while the pupils dramatized it to conclude the lesson. No cognitive terminology such as ‘create’, ‘predict’ and ‘classify’ was used by the teacher during the lesson but the instructional strategies and methods catered to the needs of the pupils to some extent in that they reflected the pupils’ interests, addressed their physical, emotional and intellectual needs and allowed them to work at their own pace. Opportunities were also afforded for pupil involvement throughout the lesson. The pupils’ understanding of concepts was assessed during the lesson by questioning and role-playing and this allowed for the assessing of each pupil based on individual levels of attainment. Lesson 4 This was a forty-minute General Science lesson integrated with Language Arts and Singing. The title was ‘Sorting Garbage’ and the aim as outlined by the teacher was to aid pupils in learning how to correctly sort garbage. The teacher used a hand puppet with a garbage bin attached to her called Ms. Jones to engage in a conversation about a litter bug that was not treating her nicely and of a message which she wanted to give to the pupils about the importance of sorting garbage. The pupils’ interest was captured when they saw the puppet and they listened attentively and quietly to the conversation. At the end of the conversation the teacher told the pupils if they think they know who Miss Jones represents to raise their hands. One child replied ‘Ms Jones is a sanitation worker’ and the teacher immediately asked for a show of hands of those children who agreed. All pupils raised their hands. Elaboration of the pupils’ initial response was sought by the teacher asking ‘How do you know? The pupils replied ‘She has a garbage bin’. Through discussion the teacher reviewed why Ms. Jones had come to
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