Importance Of Classroom Observation In Education

The report contained the information gathered through 240 hour observation in the primary section, grade 2 at Lyceum International School, Wattala. The goals were to observe and support the classroom activities – assessments, group activities, classroom controlling and the teaching methods (posters, activities, field visits and storytelling) and the classroom environment (maintain 5S rules and cleanliness). The assistance teacher helps the students with difficulties in reading and writing during the lessons. The main purposes of workshops for the primary teachers were to update the teachers with new methods of teaching and making the lessons effectively, develop the cognitive and motor skills of the students and deliver the lesson in attractive

Lyceum International school, Wattala is the third branch of the Lyceum school chain which were founded by Mr. Mohan Lal Grero. The school year is included, three terms and two semesters from September to August. There is a population of approximately 5000 of students and 450 teachers. The school grades divide into two main categories primary and the upper school. The primary includes lower, and upper nursery, pre-grades (grade 1 to 5), and the upper school includes secondary school (grade 6 to 8 ) and the high school (grade 9 to 12). There is a wide range of facilities for extracurricular activities for the each age group. The internal and external sports activities are organized based on the “four house basis: Aquila, Cetus, Cygnus and Ursa” for the primary grades. The school believes that the extracurricular activities are really imporatant to improve students’ cognitive and psychomotor skills. The directress is Mrs. Dilimini Rathnayaka and the current principal is Mrs. Sahila Manoratne and the headmistress of the primary section is Mrs. Stella Anton. There are eleven classes in the grade 2 section with maximum 38 students and two class teachers (the class teachers and the assistant teacher) for a each class. The primary curriculum contained English, Mathematics, science, Social Studies, Sinhala/Tamil, Religion, art and Handwork, Singing, Speech and Drama, Physical education

There are two types of positive reinforcements and negative reinforcement . Positive reinforcement is rewarding the individual with something that individual likes to receive such as praise and the negative reinforcement- remove the pleasant stimulus as a punishment to increase another behaviour. This theory is widely applicable in a school setting to improve the good deeds.At Lyceum, The students are rewarded with colourful stars for the good deeds such as cleanliness, disciplines, organization, behaviour and completing homework etc. to motivate to continue the particular behaviour. The students were eager to gain stars for the discipline chart. Aversive punishments and negative punishments are the two types of punishments. In aversive punishments, the unpleasant stimulus is given and in negative punishments the pleasant stimulus is removed to decrease a particular type of behaviours. An example for the application of the aversive punishment in the school setting is the students were rewarded with black marks on the same chart at any incidents of disrespect, untidy uniform, negative disciplines. The star and black mark system are effective methods for motivating