Observation And Reflection Of The Classroom

By providing different learning experiences in the curriculum teachers will be able to meet the needs of each student’s learning style. For ELL students, New Caney Elementary offers Bilingual programs dedicated to teach both languages, Spanish and English, that will essentially allow ELL students to learn the language. Programs like these were created to help students to thrive academically no matter their circumstance. To assess students at all times, one as a future educator must ensure that we are assessing the students in each lesson plan. The teacher must ensure that each student is grasping the content presented to them by monitoring their gained knowledge. In order implement the units from the curriculum, I will strive to provide various learning experiences to each student. I will provide visual activities for my visual learners, have hands on activities for my hands-on learning students, and provide discussions for the ones that learn through hearing and repeating things out loud. Each learning experience is crucial to the student’s academic success. By providing different types of learning experiences I will be able to make the lessons more effective and

| |literacy skills are not confined to the language arts classroom, but are embedded in the school curriculum. Language arts programs are | |

The class I observe is called World Humanity class. In this class students learn Social Study and Literacy together. There were 25 students in sixth grade, including two special education students under IEP (Individual

This movie, The Classroom, which was very interesting to watch, discusses all that goes on in the school system, the good and the bad. But it also shows how things at home can affect the way the student acts during the school day. This movie definitely makes you look at students that act out differently, instead of punishing them maybe we should all look deeper into the issue and find a way for the student to thrive and use school as an outlet.

S. school system despite speaking, reading and writing English. The classroom environment was foreign. Not only did I need to learn academic content, I had to learn the cultural nuances as well. I remember feeling overwhelmed and sometimes overburdened. The use of pictures, artifacts, diagrams and video clips during lessons help to some extent, even so, the study “suggests three ways that teachers can enhance knowledge construction of ELL students: (1) Teachers should take time to understand the cultures of their ELL students, (2) Teachers should be open to new possibilities of meaning, and (3) Teachers should take time to listen to the storylines each ELL student brings into the classroom learning environment” (Strickland, 2012, pp.

My time spent in the Clinical setting, so far, has been extremely inciteful as to how to become a better educator in a classroom setting. Through the data I collected I was able to connect Borich’s Seven Variables of learning to the students. By being in the clinical setting for nearly two months, I have been exposed to new ways of thinking when it comes to structuring a classroom and instructing a classroom. Within this reflection you will find out how I would better plan an effective lesson for the pupils in my future classroom. You will also discover what I will do about certain issues in the classroom and how I will address/fix them.

Wy’east Middle School (Wy’east) is the targeted instructional setting for this paper. Wy’east is an urban middle school that serves grades six through eight. Wy’east is a Title 1 school in Step 5 of the school improvement process. Wy’east has a population of approximately 851 students comprised of 449 male and 402 female students. There are 18 different home languages spoken. Approximately 54% of the students qualify for the free and reduced-price lunch program. There are 84 students active in the ELL program (ELLs) and many more that have been exited from the program. There are 146 students in the Special Education program.

They have to take optional classes, like Art, Music, Band, Theater, Technology, and Foreign Language. Students in 7th grade have the possibility to take 8 week block classes in French, Spanish, German and Chinese. By taking these blocks, students are exposed to all these languages and can make a decision whether to take a Foreign Language class in 8th grade and high school. If they choose to take a Foreign Language class, it is easier for them to choose that language in which they are interested because they had been exposed to four of them. Students who are interested in theater and show choir, on November 12th, the day I was and Pleasant Lea Middle School, had the opportunity to go to Lee’s Summit High School to watch a play presented by the high school students. Based on their abilities and test scores, students may take regular or enriched classes for math and Science

The Literacy II class was made up of Hispanics, African Americans, Caucasians, and Asians. Alana, an African American, was the teacher in charge of this class. She was one of three teachers and the only African American staff member at the school. Because attendance is not mandatory as it is in public school, the students’ attendance seemed fairly erratic. Many of the students were parents themselves and there may be adult issues such as child care, transportation, time constraints, and a lack of confidence in their ability to learn that may have prevented them from coming to class consistently (Thomas, 2008, p. 27). The largest attendance I observed in class during any one session was about 8-9 students. However, the Literacy II class was given on Tuesdays and Thursdays and I was only in attendance on Tuesdays for 7 weeks so I cannot make a well-informed observation in that regard. Sometimes students spent their entire classroom time in one of the libraries taking practice tests or doing other work so I have to also take that into account. The students’ ages ranged from late teens through their 40s. Many of them work in

After growing up in McPherson, Kansas, I proudly attended Emporia State University. In 2009, I obtained a Bachelor’s in Elementary Education and Secondary English Education. Upon graduation, I accepted a position teaching 8th grade English Language Arts in Emporia Middle. I thoroughly enjoyed this experience and worked with amazing educators. However, after three years my husband, three children, and I relocated to Lawrence, Kansas. My husband began teaching high school English, and I dove into a third grade blended learning classroom at Hillcrest Elementary School. While the overall professional experiences and demographic make-up of working at an international school was fabulous, I missed the interaction with middle school students.

At the beginning of the school year, the school had to adapt a curriculum which focused more on the components of linguistic structures. The goal of the curriculum was focused on improving the student’s language and literacy understanding. The second and third grade students had to be instructed on how to improve their oral reading skills. The students had to learn how to

Many of the things that we have talked about in class were illustrated for me in

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.

With the reference to the curriculum, at grade 3-4, the learners have to comprehend the visual, spoken and written forms of the language as divergent forms of communication. Moreover, they have to understand that the choice of features of a language varies dependent on the cultural background, context and the audience. The learners have to understand that knowledge changes when people assume different roles in classroom and social interactions (Doering, Beach & O 'Brien, 2007). With regard to reading, the learners are supposed to be able to read texts that have different sentence structures with divergent punctuation marks. They should also interact with different images accompanied with information. Pertaining to writing, the learners are supposed to utilize writings and images to express and develop

I chose to observe Mrs. Tijerina for my classroom observation. There are many reasons why I decided to observe Mrs. Tijerina. I elected to observe Mrs. Tijerina so I could see another teacher’s perspective on teaching Spanish, as she and Mrs. Fiechter are the only Spanish teachers in the school. Furthermore, I never had Mrs. Tijerina for Spanish 2, as the teacher I had left Adams Central. Additionally within the hour I was observing, there were many sophomore students that I knew personally so I was able to ask them on their options of the class. Finally, Mrs. Tijerina’s goal was to teach in a similar way to Mrs. Fiechter’s teaching, and by observing her I was able to compare and contrast the two