Feedback Report on Practicum Visit 1

Name: Nigel Farrell & Kimberly Changoor
School to Which Assigned: Carapichaima East Secondary School
Class: Form 4 Date: October 23, 2012
Subject: Principles of Accounts

Start with a clean board. There was information on the chalkboard that was irrelevant to the lesson.

You could have used the time spent waiting to begin the class, to write objectives on the board and even to start the note that was written on the board.

There was no heading given for the note written on the board?
Some more examples should be given and extracted from students on 'assets, debtors, creditors ....and these could be written on the board
There was good use of a specific example of a business. Reference could be made to that business during the lesson.

The information written on the board could have been presented in a tabular format under the heading of 'Classifications of Accounts'. There could be two columns.
'Account type'. 'Examples'

Several examples of each type could then be given.

Puzzle Activity - groups

The white board should have the headings so that the worked exercise could be written for correction. Students will be able to copy the information so that they will have it for review.

There is the need to use reminders e.g., creditors and debtors

Exercise 2

The same principle should apply where the skeleton is on the board for correction and the answers are noted for students to copy.

In defense of CXC, they do not 'fool' students/candidates. On the contrary CXC is very candidate friendly and many opportunities are created for earning marks. Teachers are expected to be more exacting in their marking when preparing students to write examinations.

While you wait on the bell recall objectives and if they were originally written on the board, that would have been much easier to facilitate the process. Generally, the lesson was well presented. I trust that you will continue to plan and present in-keeping with the guidelines outlined.