This mini course provides the essential ideas behind the role of the final commentator. Explore experiences to develop your own practice as a final commentator.
Module 2 | Developing Your Role as a Final Commentator
Develop Your Practice
To develop your own practice as a final commentator, we suggest the following:
- choose a topic and grade level from the list below
- download and review the unit/lesson plan and write down some key ideas to support the focus of your observation when you watch the lesson
- watch the classroom clip/s from the lesson and take notes
- use your notes and consider any key issues you want to highlight as you prepare your final comments and write a brief presentation plan, then
- watch the final comments provided for the lesson you selected and compare these comments with your own thinking, noting how you might add to or revise your reflections.
Examples
| Grade Level | Unit/Topic | Unit/Lesson Plans | Lesson Highlights* | Final Comments |
| 2 | Using a diagram to identify the operation to solve a word problem | Lesson Plan | Lesson Clip (trt: 12.30) | Comments by Akihiko Takahashi (trt:23.55) |
5 | Multiplication of a whole number by a decimal | Lesson Plan | Lesson Clip (trt:20.15) | Comments by Akihiko Takahashi (trt: 20.15) |
5 | Ways of counting and mathematical expressions | Unit Plan: Day 2 | lesson clip (trt:13.47) | Comments by Phil Tucher(trt:13.47) |
