Observation In The Classroom Observation

The classroom is well organized and orderly. Students have a routine that is followed each morning. John’s morning activities are without disruption, the morning routine works.

c) What teaching approach did you take in your session? How well did it work? What evidence do

The students were thrown into a military style regimentation of classes and activities. They were up at the call of a bugle at 5:45 a.m. with exercise and military drills following. Breakfast was at 6:45. Industrial work began at 8:00 and formal school at 9:00. After lunch there was more industrial work and school with lectures into the evening. There was less than an hour of free time during each day, and the students were in bed at 9:00 p.m.

10. What were the methods (e.g., intuition, market analysis, surveys, etc.) used to identify learning needs? To what extent were these the most appropriate in this situation?

During a given day in Mrs. Bakers classroom, student enter and exit the room quite frequently. Students come and go from their classroom to Mrs. Bakers room back to their classroom; some students do this twice a day. During the school day, Mrs. Baker taught ten students. When students arrive, they are greeted and then told what they were to do for that day. On the day of observation, tests were administered for assessment and records. All ten students did

Mrs. Wansong has established a morning routine with her students. Every morning she picks up the kids at the gym, walks them up to the classroom. She sets 10 minutes for their morning routine. During that 10 minutes the children enter the classroom directly go to their lockers and puts their belongings away. They come to their desk grab their pencils, sharpen them and then start their morning work. Usually the morning work has something to do

7. During the Student and Parent Orienation you were asked to set your own school schedule. Give a detailed description explaining what time of day you will work in each course.

On February 15, 2017 I observed the three-year old program at Harmony Elementary School. At the start of the morning, the students participated in their morning exercise which consisted of all the students dancing to a video on the smartboard.

This personal journal is discussing and to reflect back on my experiences in our Wednesday morning classes. I will be answering five questions in this Journal. The first question is “What were my thoughts or feelings about the Wednesday morning class at the beginning of the semester?” Also,” how did my thoughts or feelings change over the course of the semester?” The second question is “how I would describe the dynamics that I noticed or observed during class on Wednesdays?” The third question is “did I notice our group “moving” or “growing” over the course of the semester?” If so, how, or in what ways? The fourth question is “what did I like or enjoy about our class time on Wednesdays. The last question is “what did I learn about myself or

A. Describe one student’s behavior from either scenario, including relevant examples of how this behavior affects the learning environment.

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 morning procedure for the students once they have arrived at the school is consistent every day. The students travel to their lockers where they place their coats and backpacks. The students remove their lunch boxes and take-home folders from the bag and enter the classroom. The students immediately place their lunch boxes by the door on a cabinet and afterwards walk to the teacher’s desk. At the teacher’s desk, they place their take-home folder in a basket and write down if they are eating lunch from home or the school’s lunch. Once they have completed these tasks, the students grab their laptops from their charging station and log into an Accelerated Reading computer program. From here they participate in a quiz on a book they read the

Question 2: What can Ms. Rollison do to increase the chances that her students will behave appropriately in class?

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.

The following data was gathered while fulfilling duties as a principal intern at Theresa Bunker Elementary School. The data was observed during five to seven minutes of classroom observation as part of a walk-through in the spring of the current school year. My cooperating supervisor for my internship was able to go on these walk-throughs with me in order to have a productive reflection meeting afterwards. This elementary school has two of each grade level from Kindergarten to sixth grade. Since it was more feasible in this small school setting, I actually was able to do a walkthrough in eight classes. Here I will report my observations from five of those walk-throughs. As I went in to each room I was looking for four