I will organize my classroom as displayed in the diagram above. I will have an instructional loop so that I will be able to access all of my students easily. In my classroom, I will have a collaborative table so that I will be able to work with a group of students at a time while others are working at their chairs. There will be room in front of the smart board so that students will be able to stand up and move around to use that instructional tool while I am educating them. As a class, the circle time area will be used daily. Where the student cubbies are, I will also have center items in the top cubbies that the students can take to their desk to work on when the time is available to do so. In my classroom I will check roll once the bell has rung and all students are in their chairs completing their bell work. To check roll, I will walk around the classroom checking off the students as I assess how they are working. By checking roll and not calling names, I am not wasting time and the students are staying on task.
To collect materials, I will have a shelf for where the students will turn in their assignments each day, and each shelf will be labeled according to the assignment. After the students turn in their assignment, they will be able to retrieve a book and go back to their desks to read quietly so they will not be disturbing their peers. To distribute materials, I will have bell work already on the students’ desk, and when it is time for another paper assignment, I
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The desk arrangement in the classroom will be flexible. Desks will be arranged into various formats to align with the intended learning objectives of a lesson. Desks may be placed in groups to promote collaboration and cooperation. They may be organized in a peanut formation to promote student-student and student-teacher discussion.
We have cubbies were students put their belongings. We have tables that either two to three students can sit and do their work or activities. A few ways to improve my classroom would be to have a few more educational poster like of nutrition, grammar (nouns, verbs, adjectives and etc.), separating the different elementary grade levels so they near posters that would benefit them and adding activity board where students can draw or use it. The positive things in the classroom is that the room is separated into two parts so kids doing homework is in one part and kids playing is in the other part. Also, having posters that are beneficial to what kids are learning in school and the individuals’ cubbies for each student and the
I want to build a sense of community were discipline problems can be prevented, children can feel safe, secure, nurtured and supported by the environment through thoughtful arrangements. The large amount of space in my classroom will be devoted to the arrangement of individual student desks the U-shaped desk pattern in my classroom will allow me to make eye contact with every student and reach each student with ease and this is also good for frequent whole-group discussions. I will provide open passageways through the aisles so the children can move around the room, this is essential for children in wheelchairs to have mobility. My classroom will have brightly colored posters, rugs and furniture such colors as yellow, orange, red and green will be on the classroom walls. I will have a bulletin board in the entrance for posting lesson plans, information about special classroom activities,
The third grade class contained 30 students, some in which were ELL’s. The ELL students get pulled out at various times throughout the day. The classroom set up is arranged in 5 different tables that contain a cluster of about 6 to 5 students each. The students are placed at random but, some are placed far from students that they may not work as well together. Throughout the classroom, student’s work is up for display, inside and outside the classroom. Different students are given different jobs that they are responsible for each day. This allows the students to be active learners and hands on. The school makes each class have at least one
Kindergarten classroom of 25 students they all sit at tables that will hold up to six students, however I have them sitting 5 to a table for ease of grouping. Each table is a team labeled by a color, a large construction paper crayon hangs from the ceiling above each table, and they have matching crayon nametags on their desks. There is a Smart Board at the front of the classroom as well as a white board. My desk is at the front of the room to the right of the white board. Different centers are located around the room such as the art center, the math center, the reading tree is in the opposite corner from my desk. The room also has a single restroom and a sink and water fountain outside of the restroom. We also have circle area to the left of the reading corner
My eighth grade classroom is set in a Jr-Sr. High school and is located in the Jr. High hallway, in the rear of the high school. I have thirty-two student desks situated in rows and two small tables at the front of my room used for paper pick up. My desk and computer are in the back corner of the room. The students all have their own Chromebooks and I have a desktop computer as well as a Samsung Tablet. Google Classroom is used daily as well as many other applications suited for 1:1 schools. I also have a projector hanging from the ceiling and two large white boards located on the front and side walls of my classroom. The class that I will be focusing on in this paper is made up of 26 students, 15 boys and 11 girls. One student with learning disabilities, another is an ELL student. This class meets for 55 minutes.
Describe how you managed equipment and space in the lesson. Describe how you managed teacher movement in the lesson. Imagine you had a group of 14 students. Describe how you would manage grouping students in the lesson. Explain why you would do it this way. (All but Kimberly, who will have 14 students and will do it for real)
I consider Mrs. S to be coordinated. She has her materials well labeled and organized throughout her classroom. Her desk area also appears organized. Mrs. S shared with me that she begins her school day one hour before the students arrived. This schedule allows her to plan for the day ahead. Mrs. S‘s classroom is large but functional. She has a total of 30 students in her class. The seating arrangement consists of 6 sets of grouping desks as Mrs. S has 6 groups of 5 students to an area. This set up offers several benefits including encouraging collective learning,
On the right side of the classroom there is a closet that has four doors and on each door there is small bulletin board three of them with students names and their weekly tasks. Also the teacher also has one of the four bulletin boards with the student of the month and his or her achievements. On the left side of the room there are organizers with books and materials for students use. This same side of the room has the wall with another bulletin board with vocabulary words in which words are added daily and changed weekly. The vocabulary words a placed in alphabetical order. The words placed on the wall are based on the topic of the day. Also, I noticed that when the teacher is going to collect work from the students she first hands the their individual folders for them to place their work in and later she collects everyone 's folder.
Scenario 6: Tom is a boy in grade one who everyday comes in and puts on a dress from the house center, he then tells everyone that he is a girl and wants to be referred to as a she. The teacher has mentioned this situation to Tom’s parents but they seem to pretend as if they did not hear anything.
Our objective this week was to observe classroom procedures. Miss. Williams expects her students to always stay on task even when she is not in the room. She anticipates that the students are quiet when they work independently and to not veer off onto another direction by talking to one another.
This is my Pre-K 4 classroom. In my classroom, the students will come in through the door upon arrival and go to their right, and put their belongings in their assigned cubbies. I will have an orange folder as you can see on my desk that is labeled homework. This folder will be used to keep the homework organized so that way I can go through to check who did or did not turn in their homework. On the opposite side of my desk, I will have a white folder holding their activity to do while they wait for the bell to ring. My reading corner is assigned for the days I let them have free time; they can go and enjoy little children books; which most will be picture books because in Pre-K they don’t really know how to read all that great. The morning
Teachers organize the physical environment. The way the desks, tables, and other classroom materials are arranged affects instruction and has an influence on order in the classroom. The decision of a teacher in organizing and arranging the classroom materials, supplies, designated place for activities and bulletin board will determine the effectiveness of the learning environment.
Mrs. Ross has her fourth grade students move their desks together into groups of 2 to do a group activity. She instructs them to pair with anyone they choose. Teresa raises her hand, “I don’t want to pair with Megan again because she doesn’t do any of the work. Can I have someone else?” Megan who is soft-spoken just looks down at the floor as the class waits for the teacher’s response. Mrs. Ross asks Teresa and Megan to come with her outside and instructs the class to carry on with the activity.