FRHD 3180 Chapter 5: Unit IX

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3180
• Professor: Leon Kuczynski

Document Summary

The teacher or the outsider as observer: although it is dif cult to engage in sustained observation when one is teaching, such observation is important in modifying instruction to meet children"s individual needs. Alternative approaches that can enable a teacher to implement observations: collaboration with a team teacher, during a time when children are independent, function as a participant-observer; record observations while interacting, problems encountered by the teacher as observer. Presence in the setting is bound to in uence certain pupil behaviour to some degree. Halo effect: in uence of the teacher"s previous knowledge and experience with a classroom of pupils and their past behaviour on making objective observations of current behaviour. Solving classroom problems through observation techniques: determining the effectiveness of educational programs and curricula. Certain classroom assessment procedures are variations of systematic event samplings, where the events or problems are presented to each pupil and the teacher observes each pupil"s strategy in dealing with them.