Assignment | Field Experience A

Spend time observing lessons in your field experience classroom. Focus your observations on Lesson Preparation, Building Background, and Comprehensible Input.
Use any remaining field experience hours to assist the mentor teacher in providing instruction and support to the class.
Assess at least one lesson using the SIOP checklist from Appendix A in the textbook.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Field Experience A
The role of a teacher mentor is very important in ensuring that new teachers in the profession are guided to deliver their mandate effectively. The duties of the mentor are and not limited to: offering professional and technical support as well as personal support. As a teacher mentor I observed and assessed one lesson using the universally acceptable SIOP checklist with a focus on lesson preparation, building background as well as comprehensive input (McCollum, 2014). In the lesson preparation, the teacher had made a good preparation as he had written both the content and learning objectives clearly for the students, he had also identified supplementary materials necessary for the lesson as well as prepared meaningful activities to engage with students and an assignment for them to undertake.
In building background, the teacher had made a good flow of work by linking past learning with the new concepts of the day as well as provide a link between various concepts to the background knowledge. He had also provided an emphasis of key vocabularies that make the basis of the topic. Finally on the comprehensive input, the teacher appropriately used his speech by using a good sentence…