Classroom Observation

unyard is educated in a Special Class placement. Junyard was observed during a Math lesson that included whole class instruction and individual seatwork. He mainstreamed into the general education classroom.

I currently teach third grade at Eli Terry Elementary School, in South Windsor. South Windsor school district is part of DRG B. The school profile includes students in grades pre-school through grade five. Eli Terry houses the district’s pre school outreach program which services students who receive support based upon an IEP, and peer role models who pay to attend the half day program.Eli Terry has approximately 450 students in the school. Eli Terry has somewhat of a diverse population of students, with the majority of the students classified as white(70%). As of 2015-2016 Eli Terry has 87 students who are identified with a disability. In addition to classroom teachers, and one administrator, Eli Terry has several specialized certified

The patient lives in Maple Grove, Minnesota with her father and mother. However, she also spends much of her time at the University of Minnesota where she attends school. Patient identified her preferred teaching method as listening to online videos and demonstrations. In addition, she like online activities in which she can pause, stop, and rewind because then she can listen to it again so that she can fully understand the concepts. A.B. strongly discussed her nervousness around large groups of people and wants to try to avoid any sort of gathering with groups if possible. Although the patient stated that she did not have any friends, she did also want to be able to have close friends. One resource that A.B. could benefit from is the website

Previous to the activity, I was there before the children to help prepare the classroom for the day and get my activity ready. I sealed shut three, one gallon zip lock bags filled with three different colored paints including: purple, red and green. Before choice time I taped them down and set out the cards with the children's names and pictures. There were nine children in the classroom today and had six children participate. It was a big turn out and each child stayed between five and ten minutes each. The children who participated included: Jocelynn, Romeo, Luk, Brody, Emily, and Mckenna.

On October 01, 2017, I had the pleasure to observe a wonderful two-year-old class, they were outside on the playground for morning recess at 9:00 a.m. the teacher called for all the children to get on the gate, so they could go inside. Upon entering the building, the children walked quietly down the hallway until they reached their classroom. I noticed that almost everyone went immediately to the restroom area and had a seat on the floor, however there was one little boy who went straight to his water cup and being drinking. The teacher called him over to join the class and he being to cry saying, “I’m want water” so the teacher allowed him to wash his hands first, he turned on the water placed a small amount of soap in his hand, rinsed, turned off the water with his hand and ran out of the restroom.

Today I entered into the classroom to see the students placing their homework on their desk and working on “Word Ladder”. A “Word Latter” is an exercise that asks students to brainstorm a word and reshape that word multiple times to be other words. When they were finished with that, Mrs. K. handed out new homework to be put in their homework folders. Then she went over the answers to last night’s math and social studies homework. Mrs. K. was expecting the bus to arrive at 8:30 for the field trip but instead it arrived around 9. As the class finished discussing homework, Mrs. K. handed out bag lunches and asked students to put their backpacks and coats on the back of their chairs. Then the class waited for the bus. When the bus arrived, students

The classroom I observed was my own rising third grade summer school classroom that I am working in for my summer placement. The classroom is typically a kindergarten classroom throughout the year, and is full of vibrant, engaging color. When we arrived to the classroom on the first day of the summer placement the walls were blank canvases as the previous teacher had taken all of her resources down. Due to the nature of our coursework, we primarily filled with anchor charts focused around classroom management; this being at the expense of any content directly related to math concepts or math fluency. In the classroom is a cart full of small laptops – enough for each student in the class. During summer school, math is primarily taught through these computers through a software game based learning program. The students have been working on these computers at this point for two weeks and the majority of the students seem to be able to run the programs themselves. The students work on

A couple of multi sizes blocks and an open imagination can allow a toddler to navigate a an ambient totally opposite from their reality ambient. I enjoyed observing a group of toddlers just letting their imagination take them far as they were playing. The materials these children were using were a couple of blocks in different shapes. In the group there was both, boys and girls. One of the girls seemed to be born with hip disability yet, was one of the most active child full of energy and ideas of how and what else to do with the blocks. With the use of the blocks the children were playing to pretend they were in front of a television and they were tuning into their favorite shows like "Sesame Street, Mickey Mouse Club House, and Little Einsteins."

The positive feedback that I received from my peers was the fact that I was able to convey information easily. Even though they had some difficulties to understand everything, my peers were able to learn the basic concepts about cellular structure and function. I was also told that using a diagram to explain the functions of the different structures.

It was early in the morning and Mrs. Gault turned the light off in the main classroom and said we just needed to calm down for a while. About 10-15 minutes later she told me I could take some of the students in the kitchen/classroom and work with them. I ask Jacob, Nick, and Levi to go with me. We worked on our sheets All About Me. I talked with Levi about not breaking the crayons and putting them in his mouth like he did yesterday. I gave each student one crayon to color with. Levi was finished coloring and he broke the crayon and laugh at me. I ask him to get up and to come over to main classroom and sit at the desk and think about the choice he just made for a little. I went back into the other room and could hear Levi asking to go to

My overview project was intended for an eighth grade reading class. The students had a ten day lesson plan based on the types of point of views that they would encounter. The main point for this unit was to have the students understand the characteristics of each point of view. Point of view is crucial to have the readers understand their readings and who is speaking during the text. The classes were constructed in two types of ways, some were teacher lead and others were in peer groups. The teacher lead gave the student the proper information to put in their information packet, and the peer group interaction was to help the students understand and work together on the point of views. During the peer groups they will be reading and writing

In a third classroom I was observing they were learning about inferring, the teacher had the students recall and tell him what had happened so far before beginning reading. While reading he would stop and as the kids to infer how a character felt about something happening and why. The students then would be asked to predict what they thought would happen based on what they inferred. With only a little guidance the students the students were able to understand the content of the book based off predictions,inferring and using clues from the

On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at approximately 11:35AM 2 male students approached me in the HAAS cafeteria and said Mrs. Mary Grace MCGUIRE, HAAS Nurse, needed me outside her office area. When I spoke with Mrs. MCGUIRE she stated there was a verbal argument between 2 female students while eating their lunch in the flex area adjacent to her office. The 2 females were identified as Chantal GUERRERO and Amanda CASTRO, both 11th grade students.

The purpose of this observation is to analyze the students’ behavior that is reinforced in the classroom based on behavioral learning theories. During this observation, I will record how my teacher responds to various students’ behaviors that are both verbal and non-verbal interactions between my teacher and the students. After the observation I will classify each interaction as either positive or negative.

Throughout my observations at Sauganash Elementary School, I have learned a great amount of how student learning and development is influenced by prior knowledge, gender, reading comprehension skills, and individual learning styles. In the sessions that I observed, I saw different methods being used to teach. Each session that I observed was different from the other and helped me learn more about the teaching profession.