Middle School Observation

I will be observing a seven-year-old child for my project. What I have learned from being a parent and watching my kids as they grow up the social emotional, physical and intellectual changes that occur in children between birth and the end of adolescence are that they all progress at individual intervals from dependency to increasing individualism. Because these developmental changes may be strongly influenced by genetic factors and events during prenatal life, genetics and prenatal development are usually included as part of the built in parenting skills we all possess. When children are born they have no sense of fear but quickly develop a fear of what

When I was in elementary school, my teachers used to tell us that a hypothesis was a question that we wanted to investigate in the experiment. In middle school, my science teacher told us that a hypothesis is an educated guess. In high school, I was told that a hypothesis is a prediction of what you think it’s going to happen in the experiment. Now as a college student, I taught that a hypothesis is a prediction of what I think it’s going to happen in an experiment or what do you think is the outcome if we test a particular thing. In the reading Keeley’s “What is a hypothesis” it talks about what is a hypothesis.

For my observation, I observed a first to third grade special day class at a public Fresno Unified School District classroom in Fresno, California. When I first entered the classroom all the students, approximately 10 students, were sitting down on the rug in front of the class as the teacher was reading a short story to them. When she finished they would go over their reading assignment.

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

Berger, K. (2011). The Developing Person through the Life Span. (8th ed.). New York: Worth Publishers

I attended Rudd Middle summers school program for EL students. I witnessed students from 3rd grade to high school students. The location of Rudd Middle School is within the city limits of Pinson, Alabama. Rudd Middle School is one of 9 middles schools within the Jefferson County Board of Education. Pinson, Alabama exact location is 33°41′11″N 86°40′55″W/ 33.68639°N 86.68194°W. Pinson is approximately 7 square miles. Rudd Middle School is a rural community. You can find the school surrounded by a nicely laid out neighborhood. The school has a small town community feel to it. The technical building is an older structure that seems to need to be replaced in the near futrure. The classrooms were average, but many of the instructors were

Out of all of my community service efforts, Volunteering at Travis Middle School is how I give back to my community. The athletic program at Travis Middle School taught me perseverance and discipline, coach Eric Casas being a huge factor.

For this scenario, I am a general education 6th grade math teacher, at the amazing campus of Our Lady of the Lake Middle School. The school that I work for has 8 periods each day, and I teach 6 out of those 8 periods. The classes do range for each period, but I roughly have 23 students in each class and with a diverse set of students; Hispanic (50.1%), White (40.8%), Black (4.8%), two or more races (3.1%), Asian (1%), and Pacific Islander (.2%). At Our Lady of the Lake Middle School the student’s population is broken down to 46% females and 54% males that attend the school. Socioeconomic details for the school is broken down to; eligible free lunch (43.3%), eligible fore reduced lunch (8.2%), and ineligible for free/reduced lunch (48.5%).

I begin observing Faith Sanchez a six-year-old, who is in the first grade at Emerson Elementary School on November 7, 2017 over the course of three days. The observation took place at the child’s home, where we had access to the materials needed for the different set of skills that I would be conducting during the observational period. The reason for observing Faith was to see if her Physical, Cognitive and Psychosocial domains are developing at the average range for a school age child or if she was showing signs of atypical development.

Mastery promotes a non-violent community; restorative practices are in place and Mastery believes true learning comes from understanding of one’s responsibility to one’s self. The school is built around strengthening and repairing. Mastery promotes respectful and trusting relationships, both in the classroom and within the communities they live in. The way the restorative practices are applied depending on the grade level of the student. Kindergarten through 3rd grade use a rewards and consequence system. Colorized codes display what kind of day a student had, and from this color system a language is created for teachers to communicate with students. Grades 4 through 12 use either the Merit or Demerit system. The merit system tracks the exemplary behavior and actions. The merit cards are given and are to be carried along with school Id on the lanyard. Demerits track minor infractions. A new demerit card is given each month, and once a new card is given, it is considered a “clean slate “for the student. A filled demerit card is given to the dean of students which leads to a detention and a new one will be given for the remainder of the month. Mastery’s discipline system is created to have a safe, respectful and cooperative community. The discipline system is broken up into three levels. Level one is anything that negatively impacts Mastery’s high achievement culture and community safety respect and cooperation. Level

The purpose of this paper is to locate, observe, and collect information on a school-aged child between the ages of six and 17 in different settings. Once the child is identified, a pseudonym will be assigned to the child. The child will be observed on his development, to include: school performance, emotional characteristics, social characteristics, cognitive characteristics, motivational characteristics, self-concept, interests, language development, moral development, and health. Also, the child will be placed in proper development stages according to theories based on the work of Piaget, Vygotsky, Erickson, and Kohlberg. The goal of this paper is to develop a comprehensive portrait of the subject.

The “Good Behavior Game” is a method in which students depend on each other in a group setting, and is applied class wide. This article focus on the behavioral changes of a fist grade general Ed class in the inner city, and its changes in relation to the Game. The purpose of this article is to share these findings with educators and individuals who are interested in classroom management.

Authoritative teachers will often “try to catch their students being good” and will reinforce the good behavior, rather than focusing on the bad. (Iannelli, 2004). It is critical that teachers praise their students for their efforts. A teacher can teach the entire classroom by recognizing one child’s positive action. Children desire praise and they will learn appropriate behavior when their fellow students receive praise. When teachers focus on bad behavior and make an example of a particular student to the entire classroom, it only makes the child that is being reprimanded feel alienated, ashamed, embarrassed, or possibly revengeful.

I believe that the 15 year old high school boy should do community service. He needs to understand what he did and the consequences of his actions. He needs to be punished not thru time in jail or money or physically getting hurt. He should have to have 100 hours doing firefighter volunteering and helping out at a community center as well.

When explaining the situation about the two 4th grade male students, they did involve a third student. However, from my observation as they were explaining their side of the story, the third person was not important. The reason to what happened between the two student involved the third person, but the third person had no input in their situation. If the two male did involve a third person, I would have to talk to the third student that is now part of their situation. It would be complicated when hearing all three students side, but it would have to be done to address the present issue.