Week 5; Entry 8: Sheltered lesson observation

The teacher in this video used several strategies for sheltering this lesson inlcuding clearly defined objectives, explicit instruction of reading strategies, slower rate of speech and clear enunciation, use of visuals for key vocabulary and use of synonyms when discussing vocabulary. We could not see the entire lesson from beginning to end; we only saw snippets of instruction which did not paint the entire picture for me of what a sheltered lesson should look like. From what was captured in the video, I did not see as much student interaction as I thought should be present with the teacher speaking 90% of the time. With such limited opportunity for student interaction, it was difficult to gauge whether the students were comprehending the instruction.