My Pretivation Of Early Child Observation

There were ten children and three teachers in the class. The teachers have a structure scheduled for their class. Breakfast is the first on their list followed by an hour recess at the playground. The kids were very active and engaging in exploring their environment and interacting with children from different age groups. At the end of the recess, the teachers lined the kid-up and walked them to the toilet to void.

I got an appointment for observation on July 13 at De-Anza Child Development Center. I chose room No. 26 for observation. I observed one child from 3:26 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. There are total 10 children present in room no.26 at the time of my observation. Out of 10 there are 4 girls and 6 boys. They range from 3 to 5 years of age. There are three adults in the room, all are female. One adult for every 3 children- 1:3. When I entered kids are doing free play. I settled myself and started to observe a kid named Aaron. He is around 3 and half years of age.

It was 9:45am on Tuesday, October 20th, 2015: The children were taking part in an art activity. On the piece of paper, each child had a drawn out bubble lettered number one. They were given each given four popsicle sticks and a small pile of glue. The teacher instructed them to use the paint brush to spread the glue out inside the number one and then place the popsicle sticks on top.

This classroom was very organized and it did have a lot of things labeled. I recognized that the teacher had a lot of things in her classroom labeled. She had words like door on the door in the classroom. She used a lot of bright colors. I also recognized that the teacher did a lot of one-on-one with her students. For example, she did very small group activities and a lot of the activities consist of one-on-one activities. She allowed the children to experiment with the project. She stated that she like to have children to participate in morning discussion. This time allows her to introduce the new letter of the week. She believes that children learn a lot of literacy through song and dancing. The children would sing the songs as they played in the classroom. Some of them would dance to music.

Within my ten hours of observation, I witnessed an Early Childhood, Childhood, and Middle Childhood classroom. Through the duration of these hours, I visited School 17 and School 30. My seven hours at School 17 consisted of experiences within an Early Childhood and a Childhood setting. The Early Childhood hours occurred in a Pre-Kindergarten classroom setting with Ms. Mitrakos. The Childhood observations occurred in a first-grade classroom with Ms. Hordan. My three hours at School 30 involved experiences within a Middle Childhood setting. These observation hours occurred in a 6th-grade math class. My observations within both schools inspired me to continue my passion for Early Childhood Education.

Social: (Description) From 9:45 am to 10:15 am, Anna was inside with her individual group of six girls and two boys and their teacher for story time, sharing, weather report, and selection of books. Anna listened to the teacher read, "Duck in the truck". The teacher keeps Anna's attention by pointing out different things on the pages. Then the teacher holds up cards with something wrong in each picture. Anna and a friend on either side of her are enjoying figuring out what is wrong with each picture. Anna is friendly and is not aggressive. She relates well to the teacher and answers questions. Earlier, when Anna was outside in the sandbox, she gave scoops to two other girls to play with while she played with the

To complete my Preschool Atypical observation I went to Bruceton Elementary School. While there I observed a 3-year-old boy named Tucker who was diagnosed with High Functioning Autism. Tucker is a little boy who was born and raised in Preston County, West Virginia and is attending the Preschool offered at Bruceton Elementary for half a day. He is an only child who speaks only English, both Tucker’s parents are local and have been part of the Bruceton communities for years. I observed Tucker from 7:30 in the morning till his lunch at 11:30 while he participated in multiple activities showing off his development in all 5 major areas.

Ms. Nicole Ince's classroom welcomed me for an observation on Wednesday, July 29th, 2015. Ms. Nicole has recently had a few drops with children preparing for kindergarten so her numbers have changed. There were 21 children when I began my observations but the class roster has dropped down to 18 with the class split nine boys and nine girls. Her classroom is located in the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians Child Care Center which is located in rural Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The school is also a private school that maintains a waitlist. It contains four classrooms; Ms. Nicoles preschool class, two toddler rooms consisting of children 18 to 36 months and an infant room with children birth to 18 months.

During this lesson students were working partners and they had the ability to use the think pair share strategy. This means that students could complete the activity in a lower stress group with just partners before they had to present to the class. This gives children the opportunity to work with just one person to get their idea “rule” across and they would have support from their partner and teacher if needed. This strategy is great in preschool because students are all beginning to interact with others and how to express themselves. This can also be done in small

I have talked to the classroom teacher about three similarities between activity transitions in the learning environment for infants and toddlers compared to children 3- to 5-years-old the teacher said that parents, childcare teachers, teachers need to teach children when they are they are still infants to help prepare them for their life when they grow up. Teacher and parents need to have schedule for infants and toddlers for feeding, sleeping,and playtime so that they can learn so that they can become to depend on their own (Honig, 2002). Teachers can have mobiles on cribs or on things so that they infants can listen to the play music, or the teacher can have toys that can sing to the infants and toddlers to help them develop

The pre-observation conference was held with the Health Care Cluster (HCC) instructor on September 10, 2015. The instructor is a twelve year veteran and has taught HCC at the Lancaster County Career & Technology Center (LCCTC) for all of those years with two years at the Brownstown campus and ten years at the Mount Joy campus. Before becoming a teacher she was employed in the medical field as a nurse, staff educator, and manager at hospitals in the Lancaster area. She has earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and has her Vocational II Teacher Certification.

On October 26th I observed at Park Elementary in Munhall, Pa. The school is from kindergarten to 4th grade. Park Elementary was the same Elementary school I attended and the second-grade classroom I chose to observe was the same classroom that I sat in ten years ago taught by the same teacher. I chose to observe Park Elementary because the school and the teachers are who inspired me to become an elementary school teacher. The classroom was very colorful and organized. The walls were covered with decorations such as calendars, months, star student, alphabet, and number lines. The lesson I observed was a second-grade mathematics lesson and language arts. Classroom sizes are 25-30 students per classroom. The lesson was making numbers using ones, tens and

I was assigned to observe a class comprised primarily of four year preschoolers; room 102. These students had a

I observed a lesson for my Classroom Sociogram from 12:10 P.M. to 12:40 P.M. on February 24, 2017. My class consists of forty-eight kindergarten students. It is a co-teaching classroom, so there are two teachers. During this time frame, the class is divided based on ability. This enables all students to get constructive instruction time with a teacher. For phonics, Ms. West takes the higher-level students and Ms. Rogers takes the lower- level students. Since Ms. Rogers is my Cooperating Teacher, I went with her while she taught the lower-level students.

The third cycle began with the children and the teacher still on the large carpet together. Mrs. Easy was guiding the children through an alphabet song, allowing the children to lead the activity with the pointer stick and the word wall. Some children who had begun to demonstrate a loss of interest in the previous cycle seemed even more restless now. The alphabet activity ended quickly and the teachers and children transitioned to a table where the Mrs. Eady introduced a math activity with the children using zip-lock bags and candy corns. Mrs. Eady used these materials to facilitate the concepts of more, less, plus and take away. While the children’s understanding of these concepts was fleeting, the teacher and children thoroughly enjoyed