Elementay Schools Classroom Observation

1. Describe the organization and physical setting of the classrooms you observed. Pay particular attention to safety and accessibility, the physical arrangement of the room, the classroom environment and appearance (Danielson 2e):

Observing is a when you watch something very carefully and closely. I had to observe two classes close to my major. I want to become an early childhood Intervention specialist meaning I want to work with little special Ed students. I observed a middle school and elementary school class. In my middle school class which was 6th grade, it had many students who had IEP’s to 504 and had some accommodations. In my elementary school class, I observed a kindergarten and first grade Special Ed class, which was much smaller and had all boys. The students got all the accommodations they needed from shortening test to if they need a break in the middle of class. Both classes were very different in their own ways. Therefore, I will talk more about the observations with the goals they had, their unique learnings, assessments, technology, teaching strategies, resources they teachers had, and my perspective on the whole 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

1. The only change in the classroom was all of the children special notes from their parents, "My child is Special because" The teacher posted them on all them were posted on the door.

In this lab experience I was observing eighteen to nineteen first grade students at Jefferson Elementary. Most of the observations take place in the classroom. I observe at different times of the day, so that I can experience different areas of study. I have observed this class with their regular teacher, two substitutes and the reading coach, as well as a portion of the class with two special activity teachers.

For my observation, I observed a second grade general education classroom at Emmanuel Children’s Mission. The day of my observation, I met with Mrs. Cooper, the classroom teacher to go over the purpose of me examining her classroom, which is to observe three students. I observed two boys and a girl, one African American boy and the other boy and girl were Hispanic. They all were seven years old. Student A, the African American boy according Mrs. Cooper, he is on the spectrum and receives small group instruction through RTI. Student B, who is the Hispanic boy he is learning well thus far, without any signs of a learning disability and so is student C, the girl.

An unannounced monitoring inspection was conducted on 1/6/2016. I arrived at the operation which is located at 3422 Richmond Rd, Texarkana about 12:57 pm. I was greeted by Comekia Island, the person in charge while director was at lunch. I handed her business card and then explained the purpose of my inspection and reviewed the subchapters I would be observing. Roshonda Epps the director arrived approximately a hour later. When Epps arrived I handed her business card and then explained the purpose of my inspection and reviewed the subchapters I would be observing.

Standing in front of about 20 beaming eyes staring at me I struggled to keep my composure. “You teach the class!” I was just a small child in the fifth grade. I was stuck inside a deep hole that I had no control over. “Well? What are learning?” At that moment tears started rolling down my cheeks and my head was in the dumps.

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 observation began in the hallway, as Robert and his class was heading to the library to have their school pictures done. Robert was in line with his class as they were given instructions to stay in line and proceed to the library. As the teacher turned to walk with the class, Robert was in the mid back of the line and he proceeded to run and maneuver his way to the mid front of the line. He was pushing students to get to the front of the line.

For the school of observation assignment I attended Ms. Laurie Jenkins’ sophomore health class at Liberty High School in Hillsboro, Oregon. Ms. Jenkins is a friendly teacher, she greeted her students as well as myself. The classroom consisted of primarily White and Hispanic students with a mixture of other ethnicities. It was roughly an hour and a half long lecture. The day I went in for the classroom observation, students were learning about both the female and male anatomy.

The classroom i visited is very friendly with friendly care providers. There is a board on the wall that children can draw on if they wish to do so, pictures of the kids, and small stickers with animal figures such as cats, owls, birds, and dogs. The pictures on the wall reflect the multicultural aspect of the classroom since they demonstrate the various types of children that are in the classroom. There are children of many ages, races, and sex. Children can choose from a variety of things to do since there are small centers located within the classroom. There are areas that children can sit down and draw or draw on the board, areas for them to be more active and play, and areas for them to sit down and read. The child can choose what books

The classroom setting is a diverse classroom there are twelve African Americans children and five Hispanic children preschool age. The ELL’s student are two girls and three boys, they have been in class for three weeks. The classroom displayed multicultural poster and in the art area, they had multicultural crayons and construction papers. The classroom has a library that is fully equip with audio books that is in English and Spanish. I notice on the wall all posters are in English and Spanish. There a number chart with the number and under each number the words in both languages. The parent bulletin board also in both languages, the newsletter the teacher sent home that day was in English for the English-speaking students and Spanish for the ELL’s students. The teacher is African American I notice she will say certain things in Spanish such as come on (vamos) sit down (sentarse) and

The following data was gathered while fulfilling duties as a principal intern at Theresa Bunker Elementary School. The data was observed during five to seven minutes of classroom observation as part of a walk-through in the spring of the current school year. My cooperating supervisor for my internship was able to go on these walk-throughs with me in order to have a productive reflection meeting afterwards. This elementary school has two of each grade level from Kindergarten to sixth grade. Since it was more feasible in this small school setting, I actually was able to do a walkthrough in eight classes. Here I will report my observations from five of those walk-throughs. As I went in to each room I was looking for four

I observed a girls second grade classroom in Arie Crown Hebrew Day School. The class had 28 students. There was one head teacher and one teacher’s assistant in the class. Bathrooms were located down the hall and students did not need to ask permission to use them, however, only one student could leave at a time. Students lockers were located right outside the classroom, they can leave their coats and boots there if need be. The room was quite large considering the size of the class. There were five rows of desks, that sometimes would be pushed together into groups of four, and to the side of the class was a big carpet the children could sit on. Backpacks where hung on the back of their chairs