Examples Of 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):

Today was my first day in my elementary education field placement, which was in Kindergarten. I did not know what to expect in the Kindergarten classroom, so I went with my knowledge learned from my textbooks. The classroom was a warm and inviting room that made you feel happy and comfortable. The classroom was filled with brightly colored posters that pertained to many different academic content such as a number line, an alphabet, a calendar, different vin diagram charts, how to make words by letters chart, math procedures, ways to read, need to know words, how to sound out words, and a behavior chart. The room was like a magic learning palace.

On the first day the children were so excited that they were able to pick different colors to mix. They spent most of the time mixing their colors, but they also painted pictures. All three children stayed for about twenty minutes. On the second day, A was absent, but J and K wanted to mix more colors and also use their old colors in their paintings. I cut a lunch tray in half so each child would be able to make a few more colors. Each child stayed for about twenty-five minutes. On both days, the children all did a great job at discussing what colors they created and what they painted. The rest of the children in the class did a great job of waiting while the children in my small group were painting. I just had to keep reminding them that when A, K, and J were done, they would also get a turn. Overall, I think the activity went well, but if I were to do this again, I could slightly change it. For this activity, the children had the option of different sized paint brushes to paint their pictures. In the future, I could give them an option to paint with sponges, a ping pong ball, string, or even their fingers. Artistically, the children were able to be as creative as they wanted. They learned more about mixing colors including how to make green, pink, and purple. They also learned that if you mix all of the colors together you get a gray or brown color. Socially, the children learned more about each other and why they made the decisions they made in their paintings. While the children were painting, I made sure to ask the children questions about their work. K had the idea of pouring some paint of each color directly on her paper, and then mixing them together. While K was doing this, I asked her, “K, why did you want to pour the paint directly onto your paper?” K responded, “Because so I can see which colors they make and also so I can drizzle them!” J thought this was a

The preschool is located behind the Little Church of the Desert, in the small town of Twentynine Palms, CA. The school has 5 classrooms; as you walk into the doors, there are two small fenced in playgrounds. The first one has a swing set, a sand area, a movable slide, as well as a few toys lying round. This playground is used by the children in Room 1, which are 30 months. Next to it, the second playground is a little bigger. It has absolutely no shaded areas; two swing sets, a playground structure, and a sand toy area, seesaw, as well as, a little basketball hoop. The floors in both playgrounds are covered in sand. I did not enter in every single classroom, however, the one I did get to observe, was small, and had two tables as you walked it. The

At the end of the lesson Students are going to be able to describe where they live using the verb "vivir" and "tener" in Spanish. During unit two, they been using the these verbs and in the beginning of the lesson they answer the "Do NOw" activity where I asked then: ?Donde tu vives? They answer the question in Spanish and used the verb in the correct tense. After that, they answer a listening question where they had to identify the part of the house using the vocabulary proposed at the beginning of the lesson. Finally, they started a project where they had to create a Floor plan and describe their ideal house. For this activity, they have to use the verb "tener" in present tense. The completion of these activities ensures the acquisition of the new vocabulary and the verbs tense. It is important to mention, that this lesson will continue next week because students need more time to complete their DOL activity.

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unyard is educated in a Special Class placement. Junyard was observed during a Math lesson that included whole class instruction and individual seatwork. He mainstreamed into the general education classroom.

Sleep, attention, learning, and memory all go hand-in-hand when trying to improve the ability to learn and remember things. First of all, getting adequate sleep is beneficial in many ways. According to the National Sleep Foundation, adequate sleep for people age 18-25 is 7-9 hours per night. Getting enough sleep allows a person to have more energy to do daily tasks such as going to class and learning. The more sleep you get, the more awake and focused you will be during the day. Focusing your attention is also an important aspect of learning and remembering. Attentional focus basically means focusing on the things relevant to the task at hand and suppressing distractions. If you do not get enough sleep, your attentional focus will be decreased

This lesson was from the Math Investigation books that are provided to the teachers every year. This was the start of a new unit, which was unit five. I was a little nervous to start off the unit considering this would be how the students view the rest of the unit. I had some trouble reading about the lesson when I first saw it. I got a little confused and thought about why the cube train was involved. I ended up looking ahead and seeing how it fit in to other units and it made a lot of sense.

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

The room is arranged in a way to promote group learning. The desks are grouped together in either groups of four or five. There are 18 students in the room, 3 are absent in first period. The room has three separate places to do reading, one with just a cluster of pillows, another in the corner of the room with book shelves, drapes to create a warm and fun environment, with more pillows, and another underneath a paper made tree, with a seat and more pillows. There are no other adults in the classroom, other than the teacher. There are no students with obvious physical impairments of mobility issues. There are no rules for the classroom behavior posted. The teacher is very firm, yet quite loving, the students seem to hold a great deal of respect

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.

Int. Middle School classroom - dayA a math teacher "dressed for success" fills his classroom with uninspired words of wisdom. The students sit like zombies not looking to kill but to be killed. One such student sits in the back. Her focus is directed toward a single sheet of college-ruled paper. A sketch of a rocket approaching a space station can be seen. She looks up from her work only to be disappointed at the fact that class will continue for another hour.The lackadaisical student shifts her attention to the practice test she is supposed to be filling out, while following along with the teacher's exact instruction. The answers are sprawled across the screen with their corresponding equations. No real problem solving required.   Cut to the

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.

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