GENERAL OBSERVATION SHEET
School:
Date:
Number of students:
Level
1. Personal impressions about the class
2. How does the teacher focus the students’ attention on the lesson at the beginning of
the class?
3. How many activities take place during one class period? What type of activities are
they? In what order are they introduced? How much time is spent on each? Why?
4. How does the teacher move the class from one activity to another?
5. What are the learning objectives of this lesson? How does the teacher let the students
know what the objectives are?
6. How does the teacher introduce new material?
7. How does the teacher check whether students understand what are they supposed to do
during the activity?
8. Are students actively participating in the lesson? Do they seem interested? Bored?
Happy? Afraid? What made you think so?
9. How does the teacher make students participate? How does the teacher get passive
students to participate more actively?
10. How does the teacher deal with the students who are not paying attention?
11. How does the teacher give directions for an activity? Verbally? Visually? Through
examples?
12. What kind of guided practice does the teacher provide for the students?
13. What kind of independent (communicative) practice does the teacher provide for the
students?
14. Estimate the proportion of “Teacher talking time” to “student talking time”?
15. Does the teacher try to limit the first language spoken in the classroom? Why?
16. Is there any translation, and so is it justified?
17. When does the teacher correct students’ errors?
18. When and how does the teacher give encouragement and praise?
19. Are the students given the chance to correct their own mistakes? Is there any student
to student correction?
