Classroom Observation Paper

This week I did both an interview and a small observation of my third grade host teacher's classroom. I was first able to interview my host teacher. Miss A does use many of the techniques for teaching words that were listed on my observation form. Specifically she uses crossword puzzles, dramatizing, word sorts, possible sentences and dictionaries. She also uses many techniques that are not listed on the observation sheet as well. She does a lot of repetition with her students. She has them right there words in rainbow colors, in vowels and consonants colors, in alphabetical order and many more that I didn't see. Miss a believes that " they are all useful for different students. Some students feel like crosswords are helpful and others feel like pictures are helpful" () I would completely agree with her statement in this regard. I do think it's good to have many different options for the many different students you have in your class. Miss a believed that there were a lot of benefits to wide reading. She make sure that the children are provided with a variety of texts especially her students who are ELL students. She mention specifically that it "helps build their schema for Content areas such as social studies and science and the vocabulary that goes with that."()

On Thursday, November 3, 2016, at approximately 10:51AM, I, Officer Larry Thomas was dispatched to Hooper, right at the bus stop, in reference to two males fighting.

This classroom was very organized and it did have a lot of things labeled. I recognized that the teacher had a lot of things in her classroom labeled. She had words like door on the door in the classroom. She used a lot of bright colors. I also recognized that the teacher did a lot of one-on-one with her students. For example, she did very small group activities and a lot of the activities consist of one-on-one activities. She allowed the children to experiment with the project. She stated that she like to have children to participate in morning discussion. This time allows her to introduce the new letter of the week. She believes that children learn a lot of literacy through song and dancing. The children would sing the songs as they played in the classroom. Some of them would dance to music.

The classroom observed for this assignment was a 4/5 year old (pre-kindergarten/kindergarten) room in a local day care. After researching the correlation between play, development, and diversity, many realizations came to light. First, there are different stages of play and they all correlate with the developmental stages. Then, diversity is found in every classroom, either positively or negatively effecting the room. Educators who are flexible with change and comprehends the levels of development for children are expected to create a positive and effective learning environment filled with play-based activities. Below show three scenarios of classrooms from infants, toddlers, and preschool/kindergarten room.

Day one at Anne Hutchison Elementary School, I observed Ms. Biondi’s second grade classroom. The day started off by the teacher taking attendance, doing the pledge of allegiance, lunch count, collect homework, and pretty much getting all of the kids organized. After, the students were settled in the teacher started the class with a review of the spelling

I observed at a daycare called Children's house, I have observed here before and I know the teachers very well. I interviewed a teacher that was formally called Ms. A now called Ms. C who has been working there for 10 years. The Children's house is a private, suburban daycare with 20 children. The room that I observed in is a 3 to 5 year old room. Ms. C had a lot of 3 and 4 year olds. 7 of her children are 3 year olds, 11 are 4 and only 2 are 5 year olds. in her classroom she has 4 children with speech problems and 1 child with a development delay. She has an aid named Ms. M who works with her during the day. Ms. C tries to make their jobs equal, Ms. C teaches lessons and Ms. M teaches other lessons. While they are at center time they have one teacher work on a activity and the other teacher will drift around and insure that the children are behaving well and are out of harm's way.

Interactions between groups of people at sports events, especially on college campuses, have a large presence and seem to bring groups of people together. A group in sociology can be defined as people who interact with one another and who believe that what they have in common is significant; also called a social group. The audience ranged from children to seniors, from diverse race and age, but all seemed to share multiple norms and behaviors throughout the game that were fascinating to observe. The subjects, though very diverse subgroups in the audience are being studied, held similar norms and behaviors that created a sense of community among the audience, especially when specific obvious behaviors were reciprocated

My first observation was completed by my school professor. Going into the lesson, I really was not sure what she would be looking for when observing me. I felt this was a good thing because not knowing, I just taught the way I usually do and as nervous as I was, overall I was pleased with my performance and evaluated effectiveness as a teacher.

Participants were juniors enrolled in the AP Capstone Academy at a local high school in Guilford County. The participants of the study were randomly sampled from an index of all juniors enrolled in the AP Capstone Academy at the school. All juniors were listed in alphabetical order by last name and numbered 01-59, and using a random number table, thirty students were randomly selected, with a result of __ males and __ females. The selected individuals were then numbered 01-30 and randomly assigned to their treatment group through the use of a different random number table. The first ten selected individuals were assigned to the control group, the second set of ten were assigned to the plush dog treatment group, and the remaining ten were assigned

During the experiment of boys, I observed three men in the 20s who were talking about homework last weekend. During this experiment, A was on his computer talking about finances. B and C were locked into their computers without looking at A. The connection between the men seemed disengaged, as the DVD described. Most of what Deborah Tannan found is that the boys would sit at an angle. However, the participants had a couch, sitting besides each other. When they watch a movie, they would still talk and listen to each other, but would look at each other rarely at times. It lasted for a few minutes because they went to go eat together. In summary, they talked about sports and compared their teams over each other.

The structure of the classroom in which I was observed in had a warm welcoming and childlike atmosphere, which every preschool or head start classroom should have. As one should enter the daycare center, the first thing that is seen at the door is a bulletin board of all the teachers and staff at the daycare. Along with that is an introduction piece of the teachers for each classroom, it talks briefly about how long the teacher has been in their profession, as well how long they have been working at the daycare center, and what they love about working at the center. As you enter the classroom, there is the office and in front the office there is the cubbies for the student to put their jacket and things of that sort. Behind the cubbies are

As I entered Monroe Elementary School, I felt a sense of joy and happiness. When I walked in the school around 7:50 am the children were just starting their day, they seemed eager to get to their classrooms. The room I am working in is a 1st grade class. There day starts with reading, I was placed in a high level reading group, they read chapter one out loud taking turns, after we were finished we moved to answering questions in full sentences about the book. After reading we worked with science, where they were finishing reports on plants, I was asked to answer any questions they, and encourage them to fix spelling errors. Once they finished the report they had the choice to read it out loud in front of the class. Once science was

On November 14, I shadowed Mrs. Spielmann, a second grade teacher at West Central Elementary School. I arrived at the school at 8:00 but she was in a meeting so I didn't go to her room until 8:25. When I went into the room she told me that when the students first came in they would do their morning duties. As the students came in they were telling me stories about their families. Some of the things they did right away was eat a snack, do milk count, mark if they read 20 minutes, and get ready for whatever station they were going to first. Mrs. Spielmann had a group of students that she would do a station with and the rest of the students moved from one station to another. I went around and asked them questions about what they were doing. One station was a geography station. They had a worksheet they had to fill out about the capitals and states. I helped them with any of the questions they needed. Another station was a spelling station. They had to transfer their spelling words onto the worksheet and then add up how many points the word was worth. I spent most of my time at this station explaining how to do the worksheet. Once they figured out how to do it they would show me their answers and they would be so happy that they got it right. It was interesting to see what made them excited and how happy they were to get the answer right. Another

It is really amazing how excited students get with the possiblity of using the computer in the classroom to assist them with their lesson. The teacher added that she uses it as a reward system, stating how affective it is in maintaining order and control in the classroom. Students knew how to navigate, go to various websites that were related to the lesson and create a folder in which to put their assignments in.

Today’s classroom visit was quite different than any other time that I have been in Mrs. Kingston’s class. Due to the fact that March is Reading month is coming to a close tomorrow, Mrs. Kingston had to adjust her schedule for today and tomorrow because the students have an assembly and book buddies that they have to participate in, which are not normal Friday activities. All of this to say that today was a treated more as a catch up day. Students spent most of the morning catching up on their handwriting, morning work, and any other work that is missing or was not finished throughout the week. Since today was a catch-up day, we did not see Mrs. Kingston present any lessons, which was very strange.