My Observation At Mahopac Middle School

How successful was the lesson? Did the students learn what you intended for them to learn? How do you know?

Plan the activities, commencing with a starter for the whole class to familiarise with the topic and finding what they already know about it. Then following with an introduction of the subject and and activity for the whole class, then asking questions and develop the topic, maybe in small groups, for a longer period of

My observation for the spring semester was placed at Pine Richland High School. I was able to watch over John Dolphin’s twelfth grade British literature course. John Dolphin has been teaching at Pine Richland for the past eighteen years. I went to observe his class three times. Two out of three of those visits I was able to be at the school all day long to really get the feel of the way it is like to be at the school all day and seeing the difference of his eight classes. Throughout my time there I learned different strategies on how to keep the students involved, the way that a school of this size is ran, and the difference of how John taught compared to my previous observation teacher.

The first lesson I saw take place was the end of a math lesson. The students were independently working on a set of math problems. These problems were mainly

The reading of the life of Sally Ride appeared as a very engaging activity to me. While reading, Ms. House would allow simple questions and comments, but knew when to stop them and move on. Her students also seemed to know that when she moved on it was time to be quiet and listen. After reading, the students turned to a partner and discussed the story. This was a great way

What specifically do you want the students to be able to know and/or do by the end of the lesson? (must align with content standard(s) above)

I observed that the students were finding themselves hard to concentrate on the lesson plan and I believe there were couple of reasons why the lesson failed to captivate the interest of the students. One of the reason is because, the activity of watching a movie and answering couple questions lacked the critical thinking process. Also, the students had to watch the same story videos from different websites which just seemed meaningless. The materials were extremely repetitive. Throughout the lesson, students had hard time sitting still and seem to lack interest; their heads were on the desks. Lastly, there were no hooks in the lesson plan to captivate the students that will make them desire to learn the

On Tuesday, November 14, 2017, while still on duty, I observed a patrol vehicle parking in the front of the school. I waited until the officer got out and came to the front entrance in order to greet him. As I was talking with Officer J. Conser, I noticed a Hispanic female and male juvenile that was sitting in the lobby area started walking towards Officer J. Conser and me. He informed me that he was dispatched to the school for a harassment call.

Every month the spring side community leaders inspect every house in springside, and decide which house is worthy of the yard of the month title.This is a friendly even competition between the springside community, but it hasn't been so even for the last three months. When you turn the corner onto crestknoll way you see a house with a blue mailbox and matching blue flower pots near a big rock in the yard, this house, house 2401 has won the yard of the month award for the last three month. In this story I will be talking with the people behind this yard of the month streak. I will also tell some of the tricks that house number 2401 uses. The target audience for this video would definitely be anyone interested in winning yard of the month in the springside community, and anyone who would be interested in keeping their

This lesson is to teach what our country is founded on. This is something that students should need to know, being a member of society everyone should know what our country is founded on and where it began.

During my first two days of my placement I got to observe a class role play of the constitutional convention. This allowed the students to think from the perspective of the individuals from the time period and thus led to students better understanding the constitutional convention. It was a real eye opener for me to see how my cooperating teacher created a lesson where students get to place themselves in the time period and serve an active role. The teacher observed and assisted the students, but the lesson was very student centered. Students were placed in groups, each group represented a different group such as farmers, white workers, enslaved African Americans, white women, and Native Americans. Each group had a figure that represented their

If I were to implement this into three lessons, I would do one lesson on speaking and listening, one on reading, and a last one on writing. The theme of these lessons would be the Haitian revolution, and I would start the first day with a short mini-lecture of 10mins with cycles 2mins talking, and 1 min discussing with students the situation of the slaves in Haiti. Afterwards, I would show them part of a film called “PBS Egalite for All: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution (2009)” and before playing the film, I will ask them to write down and define these three words, (Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity) based on their knowledge of our discussion. Then I would cold-call some students, and ask for their definitions, and them tell

The lesson that I got to observe was Math. Miss. Phillips started on the smartboard with naming shapes and then she asked four to five students to look around the classroom and find the shapes they were naming from the smartboard. One student found an oval and another student had found a square each student found what Miss. Phillips had asked them to find, then all the students had traced in the air with their finger what shapes Miss. Phillips called out. Now she plays the dice game, each number that it lands on the student writes down and then add each number on the dice. Example 2+5= 7 and then she ask the students to show the number on their hands. Miss. Phillips has some actives set up around the room for them to do Math centers, one table has AB Patterns table 2 has ABB patters then at table 3 has number writing 0-5 at the end of the lesson she had the students meet back at the ABC rug and then they played counting to 100 by singing and dancing, a

In general, how successful was the lesson? Did the students learn what you intended for them to learn? How do you know?

During my observation time in a kindergarten classroom, I have noticed that the students have a wide variety of abilities, attention spans, interests, and love for learning. When it comes to the teacher’s instructional strategies, she intentionally takes into consideration all of the above characteristics to make sure each student gets what they need to be most successful. During lessons students are engaged because of the teacher’s ability to implement interests of the student’s into things and giving them options. If an error occurs during a lesson, the teacher normally, allows for the student who got something wrong to try again, or to call on a friend to help them out. This way the students are still giving the answers and not the teacher just telling them the information. The teacher chooses a lot of small group instruction and centers where she can work with a small group, but then, easily monitor all the other groups to make sure they are on task and doing their work.