Ren Doo

HESP 187D
Dr. Wyant
Evaluation Team
11/28/16
Systematic Observation Report
1. Overview
On November 28th I observed the lessons of Will Lydon and Nathan Rhea at Cleveland
Elementary School. The unit of focus was track and field in Wills lesson and dance in
Nathans lesson. Nathan taught his group of third grade students and Will taught his
group of fourth and fifth grade students. Nathan had 16 students and Will had 20
students. Nathans group needed to have prior knowledge of balance, athletic stance and
coordination. Wills group needed to have prior knowledge of running and throwing.
Nathans lesson required 16 poly spots, 8 cones, music player, extension cord, ipod.
Wills lesson required 20 poly spots, 5 batons, 6 hurdles, 4 heavy balls (shot put), and 20
small cones.
2. Systematic Observation 1 Will
For Will I completed the SOFIT form to analyze the amount of MVPA that his lesson
achieved. From the twenty six minutes of video tape I viewed Will was able to deliver
MVPA for 19.2% of the time of the lesson. Will began his lesson with a quick set of
jumping jacks and then split the class up to do a relay race. The students were able to
achieve 40% MVPA through the relay race over a span of three minutes. This was a
strong portion of Wills lesson. It was an easy, quick way to get the students involved.
After the relay ended Will spent over 9 minutes giving directions and organizing the
stations for the track and field portion of the lesson. This portion of the lesson impacted
Wills overall MVPA totals significantly. It was an ambitious task to try to teach the track
and field stations and the lesson could be very effective if tried again, but attempting to
give directions for each station without help was a drag on Wills score. The lesson could
be effective later now that the students know how each station works, but it was at the
expense of this particular lessons MVPA totals. Overall, Wills ideas for this lesson were
good, but the execution of the lesson was rough. I would be curious to see if Will were to
try this lesson again, but with helpers, could it be improved? I think a good way to
improve this lesson would to maybe teach one station as its own lesson. This way the
station idea could be a cumulative lesson plan.

3. Systematic Observation 2 Nathan

For Nathan I completed the SOFIT form to analyze the amount of MVPA that his lesson
achieved. From the twenty six minutes of video tape I viewed Nathan was able to deliver
MVPA for 21.2% of the time of the lesson. At the beginning of the lesson, Nathan started
with a relay race which lasted 4 minutes and the students reached 65% MVPA. This is a
great start to the lesson and Nathan should consider using the same instant activity in the
future because it went over so well. The task of the lesson centered on dancing and
learning choreography. Nathan had some technical difficulties and the music player was
not working properly. This did not affect Nathans ability to deliver the lesson in terms of
verbal instruction, but the students did not seem to be into the lesson. This class had a
previous dance lesson go very well when the equipment was working properly, but not
having the music really proved to be a difficult obstacle. Going forward Nathan should
have another contingency in place just in case he has more technical difficulty. I think
being able to shift the instruction to the students could be an idea that could serve as a
contingency. Perhaps the students could take turns leading the dance in order to get
everyone involved instead of Nathan instructing dance moves for the whole lesson.
Overall, Nathan did deliver a decent lesson to the students who were compliant and if the
music player had worked properly, then I am sure that the lesson would have had an
increased MVPA percentage.