Classroom Observation

The goal in every math classroom is for students to achieve automaticity, flexibility, and ultimately accuracy. For each student to excel in the classroom, he or she must first have strong foundational skills in place. This process was challenging for me, but not because I did not understand the needs of the student or how to remediate. The challenge for me, was that I was placed in a kindergarten classroom and struggled to find someone that would provide me with student errors to complete this assignment. Therefore, my reflection is one of an outsider, who has not had the privilege of working with the students or seeing the teacher in action in the classroom. My experience consisted of receiving weekly texts of student work to review, analyze, identify errors, and provide insight to how I would remediate in the classroom.

As teachers we need to state and continue to follow the classroom expectations, for the students to take us serious. If we aren’t able to support the rules, the students will not support them as well. I believe this was an awesome classroom to observe. I was very surprised to see how the teacher had control over everything, without doing any shouting or saying “shhh”. This is a classroom I would love to continue observing.

Miss Amber1 opened the classroom doors 15 minutes before the morning siren sounded. When the students entered the teacher addressed each child with a cheerful and welcoming greeting which started the day on a positive note. Also, if necessary the teacher would have discussions with the parents individually so that they were aware of what has been going on in the classroom and to let parents be aware of if students have been misbehaving or making progress in regard to their individual language development. Some students had a casual conversation with Miss Amber which created a positive environment when coming to school.

Overall, the students in Mrs. Park’s classes are very well behaved. The main challenge is keeping the students engaged and alert in class. Often times, there will be a student, or several, with their heads down on the desk, asleep. Mrs. Park addresses this issue by quietly walking over to their desk, without disrupting class, and asking the students to complete a particular task. If the issue persists, Mrs. Park will have a discussion with the student to ask them how they think that the issue can be resolved. I have observed that the students are much more alert when they are working in cooperative

I got the opportunity to observe a high school class-11th grader-math class. Upon arriving in the class, the teacher greeted each student at the door. Once the bell rang, she immediately called the roll. She enforced the rule of seating in assigned seat before class started. She then explained to the students what they be doing for the day and she encouraged them beforehand to ask questions.

First, do you enjoy teaching others? If so, teach something for which you have a deep passion.

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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

She began class by telling her students to get out their textbook and turn to a specific page. Her class had just came back from recess, so the students were constantly trying to get off topic. It took the teacher a lot of effort to keep them on task. She began to read them a story, where they would focus on connotation and denotation. She put the class’ instructions on a large flat screen television; they did not have projectors of any kind. During my observation she handed out a worksheet for the class, and she told them they could work in groups because she did not have enough dictionaries for each individual student in her class. The boys seemed more easily distracted than the girls. The girls saw the task at hand and completed it rather quickly, and afterwards goofed around. Some of the boys did not even finish the worksheet before class

It’s important for teachers to be able to have students practice appropriate behavior in the classroom. Linda Alston got in the habit of during lessons to get students attentions before they start to use inappropriate behavior and encourage others to do the same. “A way to give students the needed rehearsals is through the systematic use of forms for responding and discussing, strategically incorporating movement active, effective attention signals for procedural movements, and consistent collaborative group work”

My time in Mrs.Farr’s classroom has been incredibly insightful to the world of being a teacher. I knew before going into my first observation that being an educator is not the most glamorous job out there, but I was able to witness the positive impact that teachers can have on their pupils. Seeing the occupation from this side of the glass I can really see myself becoming a teacher in the future. From interacting with the students to helping prepare assignments, I enjoyed it all and found it gratifying. However, I do wish to observe more classrooms, particularly more difficult to manage classes. Mrs.Farr’s students were very well behaved pretty much the entire time I observed. The only instance of students really needing discipline was during the few number of times I observed another teacher’s classroom. One of my objectives was to witness a variety of ways teachers can help their kids stay in

The first class I observed was Mrs. Lepperts class. Mrs. Lepperts class started with going over homework and finished with a notes worksheet with examples for students to try. Mrs. Leppert effectively managed her class by allowing no talking while she was teaching and no talking while they were doing their work. If they did talk the class would receive a strike. There were a few students struggling with the assignment, so she asked students who

The blatant lack of work ethic is just amazing. The students do not want to move on unless they have complete approval.” In her class she tries to teach the students time management and problem solving. One student had the issue of drawing braided hair. Ms. Lawson told the student not to draw each braid, but only give the impression of the braids. To help some students, she has them look at their portrait from a distance to perceive what needs to be worked. If the student needs extra time to work she set time aside after school for the students to come in and work. She does not allow the students to take projects nor supplies home on the fear they would never make it back to school. Kirsten Lawson involves her students in the everyday duties to keep the classroom functioning. The first student at each table group make sure that all projects are on their group table ready to work on. The second student, assemble the paint supplies which are also placed on the table. All pencils, rulers, markers and scissors are checked out and counted at the end of class. The last five minutes of class she has the students line up in the back of the class so she can inspect the classroom to confirm it is clean for the next class. While the students file out of the class each student acquires an affirmation from her to move them through their

My practicum took place on September 7,2016 from nine thirty to ten thirty. The practicum took place at Impact Early College High School in Baytown. The class I observed was Ms. Nguyen’s class of juniors and seniors that contained twenty students, seven boys and thirteen girls. The class appeared to be alert and ready to learn. Since this was their second period class they already had enough time to shake off their fatigue. The subject was Pre-Calculous and the topic was operations of functions. Students entered the classroom in a calm manner and socialized until it was time to start class. The teacher instructed the students to take their seats and take five minutes to write their assignments into their academic calendar. The teacher went

Teaching can be a challenge, you never know what to expect and each classroom will be unique. However, you will always have to be prepare for teaching in a situation you may not be comfertable with. Educating students and practicing proper knowledge on subjects such as race, class, gender, sexual orientation and disability are vital in creating a safe and respectful classroom for all. School is often looked upon as a place of security for students and it is our job as teachers to help maintain that status.