The Art and Science of Teaching

Last week we looked at Marzano' s The art and science of teaching and Scott's introduced us to their lesson observation system and we viewed one of his lessons and tried to use this to analyse his lesson. It was a really great process but not so much using their checklist as it was quite difficult to follow and quite confronting. Scott showed us an introductory Maths lesson where he introduced the expectations of the class. It was a really ingenious idea where the students did a worksheet that through their completing it the expectations of the class were revealed it was great. Though as we discovered that as a group we were more interested in discussing the idea and how we could apply it ourselves than actually analysing it by a checklist. As Scott had done it we were then given the task of filming ourselves and then bringing it next week.