Classroom Observation

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

In this lesson, my students used all of their knowledge obtained from the previous lesson to investigate and explore in the science lab. The content of this lab is asking students to compare and contrast basic properties of matter. The objective for this lesson is for them to measure the length (Type of matter), weigh different objects, and measure the volume of different objects using types of matter. These objective coincide with my unit objective 2: Given multiple choice questions students will compare and/ or contrast the physical properties of solids, liquids, and/ or gases. To make certain that my students will meet the objectives given I created three mirrored centers with twelve minute intervals. The class was also divided into six

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

Another student that I observed was always doing something that he wasn’t supposed to be doing. On the first day of my observations, the boy walked into the classroom late, without a backpack, and completely disrupted the class from doing their work. While observing the boy, I noticed that he had not picked up his pencil once to do his classwork, and when he was told to do his work, he would yell at the teachers and interrupt the students. To distract the boy from distracting other students, the teachers allowed him to color pictures and do other activities. When the science teacher came into the class to teach them a lesson, the boy kept distracting the class and kept getting up and walking around the classroom. He then started to draw on

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.

The first class I taught on April 13th, 2018 was Mr.Nantz 4th grade class. Ellie and I taught this class together, however, Ellie was the lead and I was the assistant. We taught this class about brushing and flossing. I felt that Ellie and I were both prepared for this class. We had all the materials we needed. We also had enough planned and had enough time to do all the activities. We first educated the class about brushing and flossing and then did a demonstration. After the demonstration, we divided the class into groups and let them practice brushing on Spot and flossing on the models we made. The final activity we had planned was “tick tac tooth” which the students really enjoyed. I felt that “tic tac tooth” was especially effective and

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

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

Saugatuck Middle and High School was very traditional school. It seemed as though I was walking through a school that I would see on a movie because it was so traditional. There were signs here and there on the walls, they promoted a lot of working together as a school and doing your best, nothing crazy or unique. The high School and the middle School were separated very well and it was not confusing on which part of the school was which. This was very impressive and important because it made it feel like it was two different schools even though they were all in one building. The middle school had a big sign over the hallway that began the middle school that said “Welcome to Saugatuck Middle School” and the high school had pictures of old graduating

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

It was a beautiful day that I decide to come inside and get something to munch. As I enter the room it feels like a magical kingdom inside the four walls protecting this world. It just feels like there is no other place to be around campus than here where lives seem to be alive and enjoying the company of other classmates. While walking in you just feel the positive energy everyone has around this cafeteria. In your mind you’re just thinking of what you’re going to eat and to make your stomach happy. Then the smell of the food just makes you crave more just like the snickers commercial where you are someone else because of hungry. Then I ask the chef that I wanted a cheesesteak with lettuces, tomatoes, onions and some jalapeno with an order of fries. After, few minutes I got my food and head to the cashier to pay, then I was looking for a seat to admired the lives in the cafeteria. After I found a seat in the best spot of the cafeteria I was just catching my eye on what was going on in this magical

After analyzing my sleep for the past week, I’ve learned that on the average weekday I’m getting around 9 hours of sleep. While on the weekend I get an average of 8 ¼ hours of sleep. Even though I am getting the recommended amount of sleep of around 8 to 9 hours, I notice that I get more sleep during the summer compared to the school year. I conclude this is due to the different environment between the summer months and the school year.

When I arrived at the classroom, Mr. Art was in the room and appeared to be picking up a stack of books. He told me that the class was out at lunch and that when the class returned, they would be splitting into two groups. The 6th graders would be staying in the classroom with another teacher to work on math and the 5th graders would be going with him to another room to work on a few different subjects. Since the students were not currently in the room, I took this time before my observation to get a layout of the room and note all the information that was written on the whiteboard. I looked around to see what was on student’s desks and what materials seemed to be available to students in the classroom. The student’s desks were in a pod like

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.