Frequency 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):

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.

A frequency distribution table is used for arranging data values and counting the number of time each value appears in a dataset. They can be used for both qualitative and quantitative variables. For this data pool I decided to use the subjects’ marital status because it is a qualitative, nominal level variable. (Polit, 23)

The observation sites selected were selected for their stark contrast thus allowing for the most in depth analysis of the differences and similarities in play at these two different locations. The two locations where Central Classroom Building (CCB) 117 from one to two pm on the 22nd of September and traditional equipment play structure park area in Morgan Hill form three to four pm on the 23rd of September. There were eight kids surveyed at these two locations, they were all partaking in play of some sort and in a setting that encouraged it.

My last set of observation hours were done at PJ Jacobs’s Jr. high grades 7-9, located in the Stevens Point school district. The teacher I observed at this school was David Hauser. Prior to this practicum experience I had no knowledge about David, or any knowledge about the Stevens Point school system. David seems to have a very strong background in team sports and athletics among the Jr. high school and high school levels. I feel David’s involvement in sports reflected strongly in the way he managed the classroom, supported student learning, incorporated different teaching styles, and ultimately lacked the ability to maintain students attention resulting in irrelevant play and poor classroom behavior from students.

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.

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.

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

Well I hope I am on the right track as far as this goes…I am giving it my best. There is a total of 163 people ranging between the age of 21 to 65 so what I did in order to calculate how many individuals there are between the ages of 29 and 45 was I created a frequency chart for the total number of individuals. So for 163 people between ages 21 to 65 = 100% and of the 100% of I calculated that there were 88 students that represented between the ages 29 to 45 = 54%. How I came to my conclusion was by using Stat Crunch by first going to summary states then I chose “How Old” which gave me the total represented of 163. Then in Stat Crunch I created a frequency table and just counted up the total number of students that responded there age “between” 29-45. Then after I calculated and got my number of 88 I divided that number by the total number of 163 which was 0.539877301 and I just rounded it off to 54%.

Classroom Two is also an Elementary special day class Ms. Lopez is the teacher, she has been teaching for 5 years. She has a Masters with her special education credential. She is Bilingual she speaks English and Spanish. The children she services have speech and language impairment and on the spectrum for Autism. The classroom ratio is one adult to two children. She had two instructional aide and 6 children in the classroom.

There time is scheduled based on the student grade levels. Since there is a teacher and two aides in this classroom, each teacher is assigned a grade level lunch hour. For example, Mrs. Whaley and I both have lunch during the 3rd grade lunch hour, Mrs. Jordan has lunch during the fourth grade lunch hour and Mrs. Beaver has lunch during the fifth grade lunch hour. Both of the aides are also assigned to a lunch duty. They are to supervise the playground during recess. Recess duty is the only time of the day the aides spend time with genera education students. Both Mrs. Beaver and Mrs. Jordan had different schedule. Mrs. Beaver comes in at around ten o’clock while Mrs. Jordan is at school early so that she can be at breakfast duty. Since Mrs.

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 result of the observations where analysed by counting the frequencies of events, separating out the frequency and showing the total for different category of positive and negative events. And finally comparing the data to find possible correlation (Lambert, 2012). Findings suggest that Child X self-regulation varies depending on the location (classroom, lunch hall, playground, and assembly), teachers, and children that he was interacting with.

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