One amazing thing that I observed at my field site occurred on Wednesday. I was working with two girls on their math packets, as we usually do for the first half hour. I was doing my best to teach them a little bit more about what they were doing and some tricks to help them develop fluency with the skills they were using. When it came time to work on the project of the day, making kaleidoscopes, the girls chose to continue working on their math with me instead. One of them only stayed for about 30 more minutes, but the other girl sat with me and did math for nearly 2 hours until it was time for lunch. I was impressed by her drive and interest in mathematics at such a young age (she had just finished second grade, but we were working on a fourth …show more content…
After working very well on his math packet for the first half hour, one student did not want to work on our project of the day, a lenticular print made from folded paper. Even though the first step was only drawing two pictures to use for the project, this student did not want to participate. This confused me; he had been focused on his math, but as soon as the material became what I assumed to be more “fun” and engaging, he lost interest. I tried a few different methods to motivate him, as did some of the staff, but we were unable to get him to really engage in the project. I noticed that I value participation and effort more than how many questions a student gets correct. Grades are definitely important, but I would rather have engaged students who try their best and get a range of grades, because I know that engaged students will improve greatly if they are taught well. I also saw this in my previous job. Students who were not motivated did not progress quickly, while students who were, even those who were years behind, made fast progress. Thus, I think one of my most important tasks as a teacher will be learning to motivate students and help them to engage with
For the third observation, I made changes to grammar and fixed my sentences so they could flow better. I started by breaking the third sentence into two in the subjective portion. I did this so that the sentences could remain clear and flow. Next I changed the words "seen alone" to "one on one" to keep a professional tone in explaining that the client was seen by the clinician alone during the therapy session. In the subjective portion I also added details about when the client had his stroke, the effects of his stroke on his facial muscles on his right side, and his personality. For the objective section, I made changes in the spelling of the clinical term rote and used the term "tactical cues" to describe how the clinician helped the client
An unannounced monitoring inspection was conducted on 1/6/2016. I arrived at the operation which is located at 3422 Richmond Rd, Texarkana about 12:57 pm. I was greeted by Comekia Island, the person in charge while director was at lunch. I handed her business card and then explained the purpose of my inspection and reviewed the subchapters I would be observing. Roshonda Epps the director arrived approximately a hour later. When Epps arrived I handed her business card and then explained the purpose of my inspection and reviewed the subchapters I would be observing.
Today I had the opportunity of observing a left above the knee amputation, which is removal of a body part. This patient was a diabetic with neuropathy and had a wound for several years in his left leg that was severely infected, which was compromising blood flow to his left leg. First, the patient was sedated with general anesthesia followed by prepping and scrubbing the patients skin. Thereafter, the surgeons marked lines on the patient’s skin to guide them in what areas to incise the skin. As the surgeons, were cutting through the skin, I saw that they carefully divided the muscles and clamped then cut the blood vessels to stop the bleeding. Once they reached the femoral bone, the surgeons then used a bone saw to transect the bone. Once
My Observation for Ms. Lydick class started, as the students were in stations, working on fluency, word work, and writing. This week I was assigned to provide accommodations that the teacher has to do with certain students.
Observation of PE or Health Lesson 1. The physical education lesson the teacher was facilitating to her class focused on the various moderate and vigorous activities. In the beginning of the lesson, each students was given a stationary beanbag, and the teacher instructed a serious of physical activities they had to complete. After completing every activity, the teacher would ask student if it was a moderate or vigorous activity. One example of moderate, is that students had to walk around the basketball court and touch five beanbag and then return to then return to their beanbag when they were finished with the task.
Item 4 – Room Arrangement (Score = 6): This room received a six because the mats were back in a corner. This caused the caregivers not to be able to see the children at all times. Other than this corner, the whole room was very open. The cubbies are child sized so the children can access them. Also, having the cubbies being shorter, the caregivers are able to see children at all times.
There time is scheduled based on the student grade levels. Since there is a teacher and two aides in this classroom, each teacher is assigned a grade level lunch hour. For example, Mrs. Whaley and I both have lunch during the 3rd grade lunch hour, Mrs. Jordan has lunch during the fourth grade lunch hour and Mrs. Beaver has lunch during the fifth grade lunch hour. Both of the aides are also assigned to a lunch duty. They are to supervise the playground during recess. Recess duty is the only time of the day the aides spend time with genera education students. Both Mrs. Beaver and Mrs. Jordan had different schedule. Mrs. Beaver comes in at around ten o’clock while Mrs. Jordan is at school early so that she can be at breakfast duty. Since Mrs.
On 09/19/2017 at approximately 1715 pm Hrs. I Officer Mather was contacted by a teacher in the east part of the parking lot of Goddard Jr. High during school released. The teacher was identified as Cheryl Pallet. Pallet reported that she just left the school and found that her vehicle hood had a big dent in it. She also reported that other teachers told her that the custodian Mr. Green said that he caught a young man jumping on his car when school was released at 1605 pm Hrs. from the in school suspension room. The in school suspension room is located in the Portable 1 which is located on the east side of the school. For student that rides the bus would have to walk through the parking lot to leave.
For this assignment, I chose to observe an afterschool program session with ETSS at their North I site. ETSS is a local nonprofit organization, whose mission is to be the focal point of integration for immigrants, refugee families, and low income individuals in Central Ohio in order to improve the quality of their lives, to facilitate their integration through education, training, supportive services, and self-development opportunities, and to increase the awareness of their culture and heritage in Central Ohio. This site hosts children from the Nepali community, ages 6-18. I chose to observe this site the first week of April. I was first introduced to ETSS this past program
Observing is a when you watch something very carefully and closely. I had to observe two classes close to my major. I want to become an early childhood Intervention specialist meaning I want to work with little special Ed students. I observed a middle school and elementary school class. In my middle school class which was 6th grade, it had many students who had IEP’s to 504 and had some accommodations. In my elementary school class, I observed a kindergarten and first grade Special Ed class, which was much smaller and had all boys. The students got all the accommodations they needed from shortening test to if they need a break in the middle of class. Both classes were very different in their own ways. Therefore, I will talk more about the observations with the goals they had, their unique learnings, assessments, technology, teaching strategies, resources they teachers had, and my perspective on the whole observation.
My unique highschool situation has had the largest impact on my future goals. In Chicago there is a specific subset of the public highschool system denoted as selective enrollment and within these schools are programs known as Academic Centers. An Academic Center allows seventh and eighth graders to take high school classes and are highly selective. I started attending Lane Tech’s Academic Center(LTAC) when I was twelve and the experience was life changing. School became both more competitive and more specialized. The one thousand students or so students in my graduating class split off into more specific pursuits. I joined both Alpha and the high school robotics team. Alpha is a program specific to my school which allows students to take
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.
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.
Looking out the window, anyone could see from the dark, shady sky, it was going to rain. It was the end of freshman year, end of spring, early summer, and everyone had formed their study groups to study for the Algebra final the following week. I, however, wasn’t in a group and kept to myself, in my corner by the window. I had no interest in studying and instead was captivated by the dim, warms, of the outside world.
My last set of observation hours were done at PJ Jacobs’s Jr. high grades 7-9, located in the Stevens Point school district. The teacher I observed at this school was David Hauser. Prior to this practicum experience I had no knowledge about David, or any knowledge about the Stevens Point school system. David seems to have a very strong background in team sports and athletics among the Jr. high school and high school levels. I feel David’s involvement in sports reflected strongly in the way he managed the classroom, supported student learning, incorporated different teaching styles, and ultimately lacked the ability to maintain students attention resulting in irrelevant play and poor classroom behavior from students.