Columbia High School Classroom Observation

Instead of taking entire class to drink water and use restroom after lunch, allow groups of students to go while others are working on bell ringers.

The school I observed at is Evans High School located at 4550 Cox Rd, Evans, GA 30809. This school has around 1,800 students in attendance ranging between grades nine through twelve. The teacher I observed is named Jean Lancaster, the chorus and guitar teacher, who has been teaching all grades at Evans High for the past twenty plus years. Lancaster is honestly losing her respect from her students because she is very strict on some students in the classroom, but others can get away with whatever they want without her even batting an eye. She enjoys her job and many believe she will be teaching her classes until she dies.

1. Describe the organization and physical setting of the classrooms you observed. Pay particular attention to safety and accessibility, the physical arrangement of the room, the classroom environment and appearance (Danielson 2e):

Marissa Speroni is one of my fourth-grade students at Bobby’s Run Elementary School. Marissa is very proficient in writing and comprehension because enjoys reading and writing, she prefers opened ended writing essays and assignments. Her advanced proficiency in language arts lends to her love for reading and writing. Marissa is a visual learner, she enjoys hands-on and visual activities and working independently. Marissa is a very organized student who prioritizes her work and task material well. Her learning is driven by her emotions and leadership skills, her leadership skills often lead to helping others resolve conflicts, understand concepts, and holding conversations. A subject area that Marissa is weak in, is mathematics because she has

I observed a sixth grade classroom (eleven to twelve years of age) at a middle school in Ringgold, Georgia. The classroom seemed to be fairly even in regards to how many children of each sex were in the classroom. The majority of the students were white with a few african american and hispanic children among the mix. The sixth grade classes did not have enough employees to only teach one subject therefore, the teacher that I observed taught language arts and mathematics. The first thing you notice when you walk into the classroom is the mathematical shapes all along the upper wall like a wallpaper border. These shapes were projects from her students in the years before. The next thing that you’ll notice is the way the desks were set up. They were set up in three separate groups. One group of around twelve desks faced the

Mrs. Cartwright, Gianna’s general education teacher, reports that Gianna’s academic skills improve when tasks are broken down into smaller parts and she is provided frequent opportunities to practice a skill over time. Furthermore, Gianna benefits from math fact charts and having tests read to her.

Classroom Two is also an Elementary special day class Ms. Lopez is the teacher, she has been teaching for 5 years. She has a Masters with her special education credential. She is Bilingual she speaks English and Spanish. The children she services have speech and language impairment and on the spectrum for Autism. The classroom ratio is one adult to two children. She had two instructional aide and 6 children in the classroom.

I did my observations in a first grade classroom at R. L Brown Elementary school. My supervising teacher had strict guidelines about the lesson that she was allowing me to teach. Because I was doing my observation so close to the end of the year, I could only teach during the science block. She allowed my to choose between two standards. The standard I choose was LAFS.1.RI.3.9 Id( Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same).I spent a lot of time doing my lesson plan called the and different, and I tried to plan for everything possible. To be honest my lesson went okay. It was the little things that caused the most problems. I learned that actual teaching is a complex profession. There are always a million

When Junyard walked into the classroom, he reminded the teacher twice about his related occupational service in the next 30 minutes. The teacher redirected him to his seat. During the lesson, the teacher provided whole classroom instruction to the students on a division Math lesson. The students were instructed to work on a practice page in their workbook. Junyard demonstrated some off-task behavior (e.g. fidgeting with his pencil, looking around the class and out of the window). When then teacher the called on students to give their

Our observation was unstructured, we were observing people's behavior in their natural surroundings. Such as the Notre Dame High School classrooms, the first class was in Anthropology and the other was a Religion classroom. We record what we had seen about the students on the phones in two tally charts, a girl side, and a boy side, It seems the girls had 26 tallies while the boys had 22 tallies over the course of October 1 and Octobre 26. We observed during classrooms that the girls were mostly told by the teachers to put their phones away and wrote everything down in a tally that had the date and the gender.

Observation of PE or Health Lesson 1. The physical education lesson the teacher was facilitating to her class focused on the various moderate and vigorous activities. In the beginning of the lesson, each students was given a stationary beanbag, and the teacher instructed a serious of physical activities they had to complete. After completing every activity, the teacher would ask student if it was a moderate or vigorous activity. One example of moderate, is that students had to walk around the basketball court and touch five beanbag and then return to then return to their beanbag when they were finished with the task.

Classroom observation is a main approach of teaching research. Scholars or researchers use video to record the real whole class and observe the teachers and students’ actions, words and the efficiency in the class. Though the observation, they analyze what approach is more suitable. This paper will select video 5 and video 3 as the material to do the classroom observation. Different aspects such as teachers’ responds, questions, instructions notes and students’ behavior will be addressed to analyze the efficacy of this class.

Conducting classroom observations are very important to the prospective teacher. Observing helps show how experienced teachers manage their classroom. For this observation it was important to notice how the classroom was arranged, how the teacher interacted with the students, the teacher’s management style, and interview the teacher.

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.

Observing children in the classroom is important for a number of different reasons. First, observations allow teachers to learn about a child’s development and growths. They provide inside information as to the child’s thoughts of their selves and what they think of others. Observations also allows teachers to determine a child’s weaknesses and strengths. In addition, they point out behavior patterns (Beaty, 2014, p. 2). By observing children, teachers can provide them the appropriate learning materials to help them develop in areas in which they need more work on (weaknesses). They can also use the child’s strengths to build new skills (scaffolding). I personally believe that none of this could be done effectively without observing