The Kindergarten classroom is large, especially compared to rooms I have seen in other public schools. Upon entering the room, small closets and cubbies are located to the left and right hand sides of the entrance way, each child sharing a closet with one other student. Behind the closets on the left is a crowded section with Mr. A’s desk pushed to the corner and piled high with assessment materials and reference books (I never witnessed it being used for anything other than storage). The section
how to achieve certain goals in a classroom. I almost wish I could just list all of the concepts that I want to use in my own classroom for when I start my first year of teaching. But I get to pick three I want to talk about in greater detail and two concepts which I really want to use in my own classroom. Some of the concepts that were talked about that I would still like to keep in mind, even if I don’t find them to be in my top three are; the layers of classroom management, setting up different
My classroom is geared for a Kindergarten class of 20 students, in a general education setting. The learning environment has been organized to maximize the students’ safety, allow for student and teacher movement, promote collaboration among peers, and foster student engagement in classroom activities. Furniture utilized in this setting is developmentally and size appropriate, so that children are comfortable. Storage cubbies, equipment, and materials have been placed in areas that are easily
Working with young children, helping them grow and learn, has always been my biggest passion in life. My philosophy of education has the main focus of knowing that each child that comes into my classroom is unique and deserves a safe and stimulating environment to learn and grow to their full potential. It is essential to create an environment that allows each student to grow physically, mentally, emotionally and socially. In order to create this environment, the most important role I have is to
experience. Throughout this course I had the chance to work in an actual classroom setting, create my own lessons and teach them to the students in the kindergarten classroom. It was an amazing experience and helped me become more comfortable working with early childhood students. Each lesson was recorded and showed my strengths and weaknesses in being in front of a classroom. The three of my strengths and what went well in my microteachings are; creativity, student engagement, and preparation. The
social studies classroom where they are learning geography, government/civics, economics and history of five specific world regions. My collaborating teacher has a spectrum of students ranging from special education to on level children. She does not teach any gifted or advanced classes, but has 3 inclusion classes. Some of her students require more attention and guiding through their work, so Mrs. Carter comes into her classroom to aid these students in addition to Ms. Crull. Thus far my experience
My classroom observation took place at the Barwise Middle School during Ms. Yearly’s sixth grade social studies class. There were fifteen students in the class which comprised of seven girls and eight boys. One student in the class was classified as special needs, two students had autism and two ESL learners. The racial make-up of the class was four Hispanic, two African Americans, two Asian, and eight White students. The classroom was medium sized and appeared to be very limited in moving space
Based on my curriculum for the first principle of the recommend practice I would use a job for each student on the classroom to complete every day, also they would have to switch the work weekly this will create a climate where the student want to feel as part of the classroom. On principle two, I would have a monthly activity where family member would have to come to the school and read a book for the kids, this way family would be aware of what we actually do in the classroom and also this would
During my observations hours for Exceptional Learners course I observed two 4th grade classes that had special education students placed in a general education class room setting. I also observed the Inclusion teacher pull out SPED students and teach in a resource room conduction content mastery. My observations were mainly based on the SPED student but I interacted with all the students in the classroom. During this time I observed great interaction with students from the SPED teacher MRS.R while
one of the smaller classrooms in my school. Nestled into a central hallway, the classroom sees a lot of traffic and is conveniently located near the Special Education office that houses a printer that I can pillage from in a pinch. Being an older classroom with original vents and windows that look directly into windows of another classroom, the room is not without its rustic charms (And by charms, I mean dust. An abounding amount of DUST). Nevertheless, I love this little classroom and the memories