My Observations of Classrooms

My feet hit hard on the cold cement steps as I slightly jogged up to Armstrong hall. I stepped into the old building and saw my classroom right away. No one was in the hall and all I heard was the air conditioner blowing. I entered the room at 20 minutes to six there was only one kid sitting in the back of the room. The room was tiny and plastered white without one pop of color in it. I take a seat in the middle of the desks as they were all facing the front wall that had a huge whiteboard on it. I reached down into my backpack and pulled out a notebook and pencil. As I looked back up more students are starting to fill the room, and the professor walked in. I watched as people walked past me to go sit somewhere else and wondered who it would be that would sit in the empty cold chair next to me. I heard a laptop slammed onto the counter and I looked over at the professor. He had anger written all over his face as he struggled to hook up his laptop. I was expecting him to ask a student if anyone was good with technology and could help him. He did not speak up to ask one of us and he just sat there struggling till he finally gave up.

According to the Philosophic Inventory, my two personal educational philosophies are progressivism and existentialism. These philosophies show that I am likely to try and make a change within my class and mold my future students to create a positive change in the world. I will also value the rights of each of my students to believe what they want without fearing persecution by their classmates or other teachers, regardless of whether I agree with their views. The results of this assessment were no surprise as they seem to line up with my personal viewpoints on running a classroom.

Observations at Columbia High School were collected in the Student Services department for 9th and 10th graders in the Huntsville City Schools (HCS) district. Students enrolled in this self-contained, special needs unit are supported by a curriculum design with prevocational transition targets. These exceptional learners work toward benchmark academic, behavioral, and vocational skills development.

Teaching requires creating a classroom where all students are able to participate in the learning. Chapter 1 discusses the importance language, expectations, and integration. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of multicultural teaching.

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.

Last semester was exceptionally challenging; however, it was extremely beneficial because I had to work harder than any of my other classes before. I think various elements contributed to me being unsuccessful in Nursing 204. My aunt died in March with Lupus and that affected me in a huge on the grounds that she played a big role in my life, since I was a child. I was still in the denial stage and my emotions took over, which caused me to become less motivated in school. I just felt like I had no inspiration last semester and I should not have let my emotions hindered my education. In high school, I generally experienced difficulty taking tests that were not seeking the direct answers, and the Nursing 204 tests were not quite the same as the tests I would regularly take. My procrastination last semester played an enormous role in failing the course. When I initially

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

Every time I go to a salon I am very open about my life with my beautician. It made me wonder; Am I the only one who does this? I set out to observe this behavior by scheduling a pedicure. What better way to complete a homework assignment and to be able to observe without looking conspicuous? The salon I went to had ten pedicure chairs. As I walked in, I noticed that I was only the third customer there for a pedicure, so it looked as if I would not be able to observe what I came to see. An employee of the salon asked me to pick out my nail color, have a seat in chair number 7, and then proceeded to ask me what type of pedicure I wanted. After I chose my color and type of pedicure they then asked me if I wanted anything to drink. They offered me water, soda or wine! I thought about the

My mind is still processing all of the ideas and challenges presented by George Couros during our most recent institute day this past Friday. After this day of professional development, I feel revitalized, encouraged, and motivated to stretch my teaching muscles and rethink how I incite learning in my classroom. Technology has opened a world of opportunity for us as learners, but as Uncle Ben quips in Spiderman, "With great power comes great responsible."

In this lesson, my students used all of their knowledge obtained from the previous lesson to investigate and explore in the science lab. The content of this lab is asking students to compare and contrast basic properties of matter. The objective for this lesson is for them to measure the length (Type of matter), weigh different objects, and measure the volume of different objects using types of matter. These objective coincide with my unit objective 2: Given multiple choice questions students will compare and/ or contrast the physical properties of solids, liquids, and/ or gases. To make certain that my students will meet the objectives given I created three mirrored centers with twelve minute intervals. The class was also divided into six

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Today I entered into the classroom to see the students placing their homework on their desk and working on “Word Ladder”. A “Word Latter” is an exercise that asks students to brainstorm a word and reshape that word multiple times to be other words. When they were finished with that, Mrs. K. handed out new homework to be put in their homework folders. Then she went over the answers to last night’s math and social studies homework. Mrs. K. was expecting the bus to arrive at 8:30 for the field trip but instead it arrived around 9. As the class finished discussing homework, Mrs. K. handed out bag lunches and asked students to put their backpacks and coats on the back of their chairs. Then the class waited for the bus. When the bus arrived, students

It was early in the morning and Mrs. Gault turned the light off in the main classroom and said we just needed to calm down for a while. About 10-15 minutes later she told me I could take some of the students in the kitchen/classroom and work with them. I ask Jacob, Nick, and Levi to go with me. We worked on our sheets All About Me. I talked with Levi about not breaking the crayons and putting them in his mouth like he did yesterday. I gave each student one crayon to color with. Levi was finished coloring and he broke the crayon and laugh at me. I ask him to get up and to come over to main classroom and sit at the desk and think about the choice he just made for a little. I went back into the other room and could hear Levi asking to go to

For the third lesson in this unit the students were to be Scientists and observe the sun's different locations in the sky. The students were to observe the different positions of the sun during the morning, noon, and afternoon. The students had to go outside and stand in front of the school to see where the sun was in regards to the school. When the students faced the front of the school, the sun was on the East side of the school so it was a great experiment for the students to see that the sun was in the East in the morning and it's position continued to change as it moved towards the West.

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.