Observation for October 18th

My observation for Monday, October 18 was a half day so all the classes were 29 minutes instead of 42. I was impressed with the amount of work my teacher was able to fit into 29 minutes. She seemed more on task during the half day than on a normal day with more time. I felt she managed her time much better than a normal day. She was more focused and prepared. During 3 and 5^th period (inclusion) the students had to memorize the squares from 1-10 and the cubes from 1-20 because she saw it on the non-calculator portion of a standardized test. She was working on the lesson for about a week and had a quiz on Tuesday. When I watched the review on Monday, I noticed that the students did not memorize the problems and that frustrated my teacher. I told the class that in all my math classes, it would have been much better to know those types of facts than to rely on the calculator. They were surprised and I hope that made an impression on the students to study.