Classroom Observation Paper

In the beginning of June I had to decide on a school to observe. Before I was approved to observe a Special education classroom, I was not sure what kind of teachers or children I would encounter. On June 8, 2015 through June 10, 2015 I conducted my Special education observation at one of my neighborhood schools. Once I walked into Langston Hughes Elementary school, I felt welcomed and excited at the same time. I had an option to pick between four different classrooms, but when I met Mrs. Bell, I felt a connection. She seems like a warm, cheerful teacher.

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.

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.

I am currently on our school-wide data team that uses data to find trends within our school population. One trend that became readily apparent to our team this year was that our move-in students were underperforming and that there were large gaps in their data due to the late entry into our building. Therefore, I wanted to delve deeper into this idea of mobility and how it impacts test results. I specifically wanted to look at this across the three middle schools in my district, Gahanna Jefferson Public Schools, because the three districts differ in student populations. I was not surprised by the results but rather reaffirmed in my thinking. I first wanted to see if certain schools would have higher mobility rates than others so I did a comparison of three years to see the percentage of students who were in the

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.

I got to observe my mentor teacher’s partner. She teaches math and science. I was very grateful to be able to observe a different content area. The teacher provided different techniques to accommodate the needs of each child. She provided a hands-on activity for the students who are visual learners. During my observation, my mentor was teaching about currency. She gave each student a quarter and magnify glass so students can observe closely what details are in the quarter. She then provided an anchor chart to write down students’ observations. For example, George Washington faces left on a quarter. The students got to observe each coin and discuss their

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

I returned to Mrs. Hengsbach's first-grade class, to finish up my observation requirement. The class was just returning to there room when I was coming down the hall. I was given a big welcome from Mrs. Hengsbach. The class turned around and I received so many hugs from the students it was wonderful. We entered the classroom and the students gathered on the carpet in the front of the class and the music videos began. It was time to practice telling time and the lesson began with a few songs and the students were having a great time. Once the singing and dancing were over, it was to the time centers. The students went to the computers, games around the room, and the station at Mrs. Hengsbach's desk. I again joined the group at the desk to watch

Create procedures and expectations at the beginning of the year for hands-on activities and group work

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.

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.

I observed a five-year-old from my church for the language development observational case study. She wanted to show me how to do some art projects. Therefore, most of the language used was either descriptive or directive. She typically told me what she was going to do right before she did it or told me to help her with something, either with a question or just telling me to do something. Most of her phonemic pronunciation was fairly accurate. I have not seen her in a little while, so this is improved since the last time I spoke with her. However, the θ and ð sounds were not quite correct all of the time, but I could still understand what she meant. I am not concerned about a language delay as some slight mispronunciations are still common

How might better utilizing our school level counselors and the eEWS Data System, positively influence the improvement of student academics, behavior and attendance at JCHS? The most effective schools will provide opportunities for all struggling students within their school to achieve success. Many students are often left to fall through the cracks. Progress monitoring can be done using a variety of methods. A number of progress monitoring measures have been reviewed by the National Center on Response to Intervention and the National Center for Student Progress Monitoring and vary considerably in reliability, validity, and other key progress monitoring standards (Hughes, C., & Dexter, D., 2011). In most schools, the student athletes are

I vividly remember the first day I walked into the local middle school to complete my first day of observation in a special education classroom. Nothing I ever encountered came close to preparing me for what I experienced over the course of the semester, then again, nothing ever came close to how rewarding it felt being there for the students. At 8 o’clock in the morning, I met my assigned mentor alongside her partners in crime, the paraprofessionals. We waited patiently for the students to arrive at the front of the school since many of them need assistance getting off the bus or vehicle. I watched my mentor teacher and paraprofessionals guide the children from their car to the area where the students wait until the bell rings to go to