On June 23, 2015, I was able to observe a vacation bible school class discussing the story of Daniel. The twenty minute discussion followed a ten minute story about Daniel’s life and some of the struggles he faced while living in Babylon. During the story and discussion, the fourth grade children sat on rugs in the floor in a semicircle. There was no order to who sat where; they just picked a rug to sit on. There were nine boys and four girls in attendance that evening. Six of the boys and three of the girls were in attendance at the church regularly. The other four were all acquainted with the other students and had attended at least once previously. The two teachers were both female in their mid-sixties. One is a retired middle school …show more content…
In the beginning of the discussion, any student with a raised hand was permitted to reply. These types of questions were lower ordered based questions. Examples included naming Daniel’s three friends and stating what Nebuchadnezzar’s dream was about. During this time period, there were a total of 25 questions. Of these questions, 19 were answered by boys and 6 were answered by girls. On two occasions, a boy would yell out the answer and she would accept that. The girls followed the procedure of raising their hand. The second half of questions were higher ordered based. There were 10 questions during this time. Examples included why God would test Daniel and his friends and how can you apply this story to your life. These questions were asked of specific students. All nine boys were asked to answer but only four produced an answer to one question while two boys answered two questions. Three of the four girls were each asked one question. Only one girl was asked a question before it was offered to a boy to answer. Two of the girls chose to answer a question. There was really no order showcasing a pattern of which gender would be asked the next question, nor did she go down the row they were sitting …show more content…
She also used expressions such as ‘come on, you know this’ when asking the boys questions. In the questions that were posed to the girls, if she prompted at all, she would usually say “well, do I need to ask someone else” or a statement similar. She would wave her hands in the air similar to motioning children to come to her when she was prompting the boys to answer a question they were having difficulty answering. Her hands were generally on her hips when the girls would answer. She appeared frustrated when any of the children were unable to provide responses, but she seemed more frustrated with the boys than the girls. She would often make statements to the boys about needing to pay attention. She did praise all students when they participated and showed no bias in her feedback towards
Daniel’s character changes loads throughout the book, Daniel Half-Human, and his change makes him into a more wise person. He starts out at the beginning being very loyal to pretty much anyone and anything, and then towards the end of the book, is only loyal to those who truly earned it. His loyalty is first shown on pg. 21, when he doesn’t leave Armin in his time of need, shown when Armin says, “You could have run away,” Armin said. “I know a lot of ‘friends’ who would have.”. He stayed for Armin when he had gotten himself hurt, and when Armin was surely getting Daniel into heaps of trouble. His shallow loyalty continues on pg. 51 as it say, “I’ve decided to join the HJ. My parents can’t forbid it anymore.”. He pledges loyalty in his friend and a rebellion group leader, as they only offered him chance and chance again to get into
Mr. Wray was the first teacher and the only male teacher I observed. The class was a 7th grade Social Studies academy class. Throughout the observation I noticed he really cares about his students. He took his time going over the topic of discussion, and when some of the students couldn’t catch on he stopped to help the individuals. His class was very well behaved. The only time I really noticed any of the students socializing were when Mr. Wray put them in groups to complete a study guide. The second teacher I observed was 6th grade teacher Mrs. Dunn. She was teaching English to her students. She went over verb phrases and helping verbs throughout the class. I noticed whenever she asked questions quite a few of the students participated by answering. Mrs. Dunn had a positive attitude throughout the class period. I felt she truly enjoyed all her students and treated them the same. Even when some of the students didn’t answer questions correctly she didn’t make them feel dumb. She would just tell them good try. I could tell her students really liked her as a teacher also. The last teacher I observed at Westside Junior High was 7th grade Science teacher Mrs. Dugas. This lady came off as a very strict teacher compared to the other two I had observed. Her students were very talkative, which only made her become more annoyed when having to fuss at them. At the beginning of class the students had a bell ringer to complete. On the particular day I went the bell ringer
Daniel's story was about a boy named daniel, daniel was a jewish person that live in the time when hitler was sending jews to concentration camps also know as the holocaust. The holocaust was very bad it took jews away from their homes, jobs and families and friends. hitler hated jews because they took away jobs and they weren't actually germans.hitler killed about six million jew in a couple of years. they way he would kill them was to poison the air or burn them. they never could escape until the U.S. stopped the camps after the war.
For this assignment the group that I observed was the Churches Touching Lives of Christ Bible study located at W Ave G Temple, TX 76504.The bible study group was small, it consisted of six adult group members in total. Each individual person had their own uniqueness about themselves and their contribution to the group. The leader of the group was a slender Asian male in his late forty’s who was well spoken and maintained order in the group while still delivering a short sermon to the group. Whenever a person would speak out of turn he would let them speak and when they were done he would publicly correct them and tell the other adult group members that they should wait their turn to speak and if they have a
The students were respectful and fearful. Therefore they didn 't make too much trouble for her. You didn’t speak unless spoken to, or you rose your hand. Then, if she called you, you would have proceeded to stand, walk to her desk, politely and formally ask what you intended to do. Since the teachers desk was on a platform, she was always able to see most to all of her students and since she was above them, literally, every fiber of her being was screaming authoritative figure to her students.
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.
When she exited the classroom, all eyes were on her. Since she goes to a small school of about three-hundred students, word gets around pretty quickly. Every girl was looking at each other, then staring at her, and back again. Even the emo kids were looking at her weirdly.
These were what the fresh teacher was facing. She decided to change. Because she wanted to do her
I am writing on behalf of Daniel Arroyo regarding the position of Substitute Teacher at Bradshaw Christian School. Daniel and I both attend Liberty University, and we have taken several classes together and worked on many projects. During that time, I have gotten to know Daniel very well and can thoroughly describe his character and abilities.
This experience was unlike that of previous experiences I have had in the classroom because there are no classes or programs set up in the education system that focus on spreading religion or one’s beliefs. Given this, the
The second observation was during a math period. The students were reviewing subtracting three digit numbers with regrouping. The teacher used the researched based strategy of reciprocal teaching. She chose a student that is socially outspoken and proficient in math. As he was reviewing the problems on the board, he would call upon his fellow peers to share answers. On a few occasions as he scanned the room for a student, it was observed that Mrs. Yglesias encouraged him to choose an ELL student to participate. On the difficult examples, the teacher would interject and us visual hand gestures to assist students in arriving to an answer without verbally offering the solution. Also, the teacher walked around the room offering support to all her
Time – Story World Chronological Order In time order the most striking feature of the narrative is that the narrative has three anachrony. The story’s anachrony occurs in Daniel 6:10, 1, and 14. In the story anachrony in Daniel 6: 10, Daniel prayed to God. It is an internal heterodiegetic repeating analepsis.
During my observations in her classroom, I observed Reading/Writing and Math lessons. For her Reading/Writing lesson, she discussed cause and effect. She had a couple of examples displayed on the smart board. She read the sentence and called on students to answer specific questions relating to her lesson. Some students were eager to answer and others not so much.
Throughout the lesson she would walk around and interact with the students to make should they were on task and understanding the assignment. She provided visual aids to assist in the lesson and allowed students to pair with each other in order to provide extra help. Students had to sit up straight in class and track the teacher while she was at the board during whole group instruction. One thing I really loved because its someshing I do in my classroom. All students were required to raise their hands when asked a respond to a question regarding the lesson.
I entered into the worship service, unaware of what to expect. I was not familiar with this church, it was a non-denominational church, but the pastor had his roots in the A.M.E. Zion Church and branched out to establish his own church. I walked into the sanctuary prepared to participate in the Sunday School. I found a seat and readied myself to engage in some meaningful discussion. After sitting for several minutes, I asked one of the gentlemen who was standing at the front of the church if they had already started and where was the lesson coming from. He looked at his watch and indicated that he didn’t know if we had time for Sunday School. A puzzled look came over my face and I couldn’t help but express my confusion as I looked at