Scenario A: Mary is sitting in her high school biology class, paying attention to her teacher’s lecture. She begins to hear a faint snoring and notices that one of her fellow classmates, Tim, has fallen asleep in the middle of the lecture. 1. What does your schema tell you about what to expect in a typical classroom setting? Include expectations about both the physical classroom setting itself as well as expected behaviors of students and teachers. Using an automatic thinking schema from my own personal experience I would except the physical classroom setting for a high school biology class to have students seated at workbenches facing the front of the classroom. At the front of the classroom, I would expect a whiteboard where the teacher would present lectures and provide notes. On the surrounding walls would be posters of animal classifications, lab rules, and possibly even aquariums. Given that Tim has fallen asleep, I would imagine him towards the back of the classroom, possibly, in a corner seat. Whereas, a more attentive student like Mary, would be sitting closer to the front of the room, where she could easily see the board and teacher. Mary, upon hearing Tim snoring during class would feel annoyed that he is causing her a disruption while she is trying to take notes and learn. Several of her fellow students would also view this disruption with annoyance. In contrast, in the back of the class, where Tim is sitting some of his friends may be amused at Tim
The middle school student had gotten about 6 hours of sleep last night. When he walked into class it was easy to tell he was very nervous and fatigued by the look on his face. Today in the school, many classes were hosting midterms because it was that time of year. The student had said that he spend hours on homework and even more time studying. He had indeed lost a little sleep stressing over his test.
Briefly describe the classroom setting in which you are assigned and any requirements or expectations that might affect your planning or delivery of instruction.
During the observation of Morning Meeting, I noticed that my mentor teacher separated the children by gender when the calendar helper counted the number of boys and the girls in the classroom. My mentor teacher asked the calendar helper to have either the boys or girls stand up first to be counted. When the children are getting ready to go outside or to the bathroom, the teacher has also the boys and girls in separate lines. I felt that there were other characteristics for the teacher to separate the children. For example, she could she could have asked the children stand up or line up based on their eye color, hair color, the color of their clothing, their favorite animal, or even the first letter of their name. If my teacher broadened the
Sleep, attention, learning, and memory all go hand-in-hand when trying to improve the ability to learn and remember things. First of all, getting adequate sleep is beneficial in many ways. According to the National Sleep Foundation, adequate sleep for people age 18-25 is 7-9 hours per night. Getting enough sleep allows a person to have more energy to do daily tasks such as going to class and learning. The more sleep you get, the more awake and focused you will be during the day. Focusing your attention is also an important aspect of learning and remembering. Attentional focus basically means focusing on the things relevant to the task at hand and suppressing distractions. If you do not get enough sleep, your attentional focus will be decreased
This lesson was from the Math Investigation books that are provided to the teachers every year. This was the start of a new unit, which was unit five. I was a little nervous to start off the unit considering this would be how the students view the rest of the unit. I had some trouble reading about the lesson when I first saw it. I got a little confused and thought about why the cube train was involved. I ended up looking ahead and seeing how it fit in to other units and it made a lot of sense.
The sound of Carmine’s snoring from across the hall forces its way through my closed door and into my room. It wakes me before my alarm this morning. I’m not sure what time he came in last night, but I must have been in a deep sleep. Slowly, I go through the motions of my morning routine. Taking care not to wake Carmine, I finish getting ready and leave him a note to tell him I’ll be at the library all day. Just as I finish checking my assignments and pack my book bag for the library, I hear my phone ping with a new text message.
Conducting classroom observations are very important to the prospective teacher. Observing helps show how experienced teachers manage their classroom. For this observation it was important to notice how the classroom was arranged, how the teacher interacted with the students, the teacher’s management style, and interview the teacher.
The positive feedback that I received from my peers was the fact that I was able to convey information easily. Even though they had some difficulties to understand everything, my peers were able to learn the basic concepts about cellular structure and function. I was also told that using a diagram to explain the functions of the different structures.
Formal education can be seen as a way of transmitting the knowledge and skills that are conceived important in any given economy and society. (Farrington-Flint & Montgomery, 2016, p. 151)
In the classroom, the teacher uses songs, clapping, and she sometimes switch the lights when transitioning the children to the next daily activity. Everyone in her classroom follow directions as she asks them to do a certain chore. The teachers had implement her daily routine and she is well preparing because she does not struggle with her children when they asked to move to the next activity. For example, in the morning when the children are playing, she would ask them to start cleaning up, singing a cleanup song. She starts singing “Clean up, Clean up, everybody does your share, Clean up, Clean up, lest put the way. Then she would ask them to wash their hands for breakfast, she started signing a wash hands song as she switched the lights,
It had been a long day of school, clubs and homework; everything was beginning to take its toll on her body in the form of dreaded fatigue. With a test on trigonometric functions the next day (or this coming morning, rather) Alice was not so keen on falling asleep so early - or late, since the concept of a scheduled bedtime was practically non-existent for students like her.
My schema tells me to expect the typical classroom to be set up with students all facing the front of the class, where the teacher will be conducting the lecture. It also tells me to expect students to typically be respectful of the instructor and pay close attention during the lecture. Similarly, the typical teacher will be respectful of the students attending their class, privode them with needed information, and pay close attention to which students are attentive and respectful, and which students are not.
Despite the disruptions, it is still important to note the dynamics and characteristics of this classroom. Mrs. Diaz’s room is filled with beautiful and vibrant pieces of chart paper that allow the students to refer back to previous lessons. The various pieces of chart paper are exhibited throughout the entire room and includes almost every academic concentration. Moreover, the classroom is organized into centers that is separated by the library, math, reading, and writing areas. All the centers are spread amongst the room with the library towards the back of the classroom and the math center located towards the community area. The library center is rather large and has several backrest throw pillows on the floor. This area is suitable towards the back of the room due to its large proximity that enables the students to relax on the cushions and read a book. The classroom is not organized in a traditional fashion either, but instead includes elements from P.S. 45’s famous, flexible-seating arrangements that have taken over a majority of the classroom settings. Additionally, these seating arrangements include cushions, portable lap-desks, and a “Starbucks” countertop with stools. Notwithstanding, the classroom still contains traditional desks that are organized by tables, where each child has an assigned seat and seat sack to keep their materials. In this classroom, the organization and use of tools,
For my classroom observation I had the opportunity of sitting in on a first grade regular education classroom. Listed below are the following that relates to the teacher’s classroom design.
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.