Class Observation Paper

In a good classroom, students should feel safe and comfortable. The classroom was staffed with Ms. Caitlin the kindergarten teacher and Mrs. Doherty the teacher's assistant. The class size consisted of twenty children. The classroom held five round tables with four students per table. Having tables rather than individual desks, Ms. Caitlin encouraged a sense of community rather than allowing a child to be alone at a desk. The furniture was at an appropriate level and size for 5 and 6-year-old children. Also, there was space for children to store their work and personal belongings in cubbies. The class had four different learning center stations these included: writing/reading center, block center, math center, and the kitchen center. Bulletin boards were displayed and decorated with colorful pictures which reinforced concepts learned in the classroom. For example, the alphabet, numbers and days of the week. Student work was also visible in the classroom. In the front of the classroom, a smartboard and rug was arranged for the students to gather for lessons and play. This area was kept free from all forms of distraction. In the back of the room, extra materials were available such as pencils, erasers, crayons, glue sticks, and scissors. Overall, I believe that Ms. Caitlin provided her students with a positive, cheerful, and organized learning environment. She instilled in her students that the classroom is a

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."()

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.

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.

I observed Cielo, a preschooler, at my friends house. The observation lasted 30 minutes. I sat down on the couch and observed Cielo at reading books to us.

As I waited for the day to begin, I took a good look around the room. It was very “Print Rich.” There was a long bookcase in the front of the room with two shelves full of books. There was a pile of bean bags for the students to use

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

On Monday morning, I reported to the ENL I class at Central Islip High School as I did many mornings before. I observed the ENL teacher as she taught a class of 20 students who had recently begun studying in the United States and were required to take 2 periods of intense English language learning every day. The classroom was made of students who had immigrated from Central America and the Caribbean, all of the students in the classroom spoke Spanish as their first language. Each student that I observed carries with them a unique story and set of demands and expectations. At the end of my observation, I concluded that the social implications of the current political climate in combination with the ENL curriculum being followed directly impacted the success of the students in their second language acquisition.

My observation was done in a Kindergarten classroom for 3 hour when the children were eating lunch and playing. What I observed a child sit down at the lunch table and, points across at some of the children at the table, loudly saying, “You are not my friend, you are not my friend, to another child. I also saw this child then direct particular children where they are a post to sit according to who is a “friend and who is not a friend”. I watched the children change seats as told by this child. The children that were not aloud to sit with this child went and told the teacher (Atlas, & Pepler,1998).After lunch the teacher talked to the child about what happened in the lunch room and the child said not happened. So the teacher sat all the children down to talk to them about what she saw in the lunch. Teacher said that we all friends. That when we say words to other children it hurts their feelings and they are also bullying them.

After observing my subject over the past four days, I've made some interesting observations of someone that I have failed to notice for the past four years of high school. Knowing them by only by their name, I was curious to see what I could unveil about them from only their observable behaviors.

It was nice, I had my own little space enclosed to myself. I recognized some people from ELA, but I was too scared to talk to them. After that first introduction I decided to keep to myself this time and lay low. I liked that class, we worked independently and it was quiet. Why do all good things come to an end?

My observation hours took place at Montgomery Jr. High school during the month of October. Most of my observations took place on Wednesdays which were October 5th, 12th, and the 27th but one took place on Monday the 17th. Most were history, science, and math classes since they were placing me in multiple classes to observe. I switched classes the same as the students and it was interesting walking into the classrooms. Many of the teachers thought at first that I was a new student until they realized the slacks and probably got a better look.

The class didn’t seem too different from the way I accustomed to things operating in a class setting. Everyone seemed friendly enough. No complaints there. I hadn’t thought the thing

For years I passed up a billboard on a busy highway in my town that read “Want to teach?.... When can you start?” I never thought anything of it, and it didn’t really register that the billboard was speaking to me until one day it did. I had what I have come to know as a “come to the carpet” moment with myself. I realized that in my current job I could help a few, but in becoming an educator I could pour kindness into others that I would like to see more of in our current trying times. Of course there is a lot to be done, and it is my deepest desire that I join the forces of dedicated individuals who become masters of education such as the teacher I will write to you about today.

Today we had a little problem with one of the boy in our classroom. From the begging of the class he wasn’t in the mood. He was browsing around the classroom instead of sitting on the carpet; he wasn’t following any directions and didn’t want to talk to anyone. It was very uncomfortable situation for everyone he was distracting his classmates. When the teacher started talking to him, he didn’t want to listen to her, but Mrs. Genson was very calm, she made him to calm down and participate in classroom activities. I had a good opportunity to observe Mrs. Genson working with that boy; because I am sure in my future carrier I am going to face this type of situation.