Observation Of Ms. Velasquez First Period Class

Mr. Wray was the first teacher and the only male teacher I observed. The class was a 7th grade Social Studies academy class. Throughout the observation I noticed he really cares about his students. He took his time going over the topic of discussion, and when some of the students couldn’t catch on he stopped to help the individuals. His class was very well behaved. The only time I really noticed any of the students socializing were when Mr. Wray put them in groups to complete a study guide. The second teacher I observed was 6th grade teacher Mrs. Dunn. She was teaching English to her students. She went over verb phrases and helping verbs throughout the class. I noticed whenever she asked questions quite a few of the students participated by answering. Mrs. Dunn had a positive attitude throughout the class period. I felt she truly enjoyed all her students and treated them the same. Even when some of the students didn’t answer questions correctly she didn’t make them feel dumb. She would just tell them good try. I could tell her students really liked her as a teacher also. The last teacher I observed at Westside Junior High was 7th grade Science teacher Mrs. Dugas. This lady came off as a very strict teacher compared to the other two I had observed. Her students were very talkative, which only made her become more annoyed when having to fuss at them. At the beginning of class the students had a bell ringer to complete. On the particular day I went the bell ringer

At 1:00 p.m. I entered into Evoline C. West Elementary school on Thursday, July 12 2012 for an interview with Mrs. Yolanda Lawrence. As I entered the classroom, I was greeted by Mrs. Lawrence, the head teacher in this classroom. Mrs. Lawrence has no assistant at this present because of it being in the summer. After I entered into the classroom, the entire class welcomed me with “hello Ms. Flournoy”. It made my day to see all of those smiley faces greeting me. This was a 2nd grade classroom which consisted of 17 students of which 8 were girls and 9 were boys. This interview and observation was a total of 2

Conversations in class were a huge contributor to never getting anything done. Whether the conversation was about when our next food day would be or the outfit she was wearing, it was never important. These conversations did not encourage a positive learning environment and certainly did not reflect into our education well. Students should have liked her better considering that she acted like a friend to many of us. One of the things I hate most is when adults try to be friends with teenagers in inappropriate situations, such as at school where the adult should hold a higher standard of professionalism. There is a difference between having fun with students and losing all authority over them. She is lucky that any students listened to her towards the end of the year because most students would not have been mature enough to behave without a teacher disciplining them. She never threatened detention and she definitely did not give a reason to respect her. So, it actually seems like a miracle that the class was not complete chaos. It could have been much worse if we were not such respectful students. Ms. Fetterman should have been a role model as well as a teacher, and she failed at both tasks. Since she lost respect from her students they no longer put in effort towards her classwork, which ultimately lead to a decline in students’ performance in school. The only effort put into her class was fueled purely by that individual’s desire to learn, despite no motivation to do so from Ms.

The guidance counselor stated that the other three teacher could not attend the meeting however they provided a report about Shonquasia’s grades and behavior in each of their class. Ms. Witkers stated, that the other teaches reported that Shonquasia is not doing well in their class, and that she is often caught sleeping and that she has an aggressive attitude toward the teacher and her peers. MS. Witkers stated, that the other teacher reported that Shonquasia is not complete assignment and homework. RORC teacher reported that Shonquasia is fail his class because she refuse to wear her uniform. Ms. Witkers, recommended that Shonquasia should be encourage to participate in her class, and to be more respectful to other. Ms. Witkers suggested that consequences for behavior and accountability should be reinforced in the classroom and at home. Per mom Shonquasia does not like to be told what to do and that Shonquasia is capable of getting better grades, however she do not want to put in the work required to get better grades. Per mom Shonquasia likes to do her own thing and it is very difficult for her to punish Shonquasia for bad behavior. Per mom, since last CFT meeting Shonquasia s behavior at home and in school has not

Monday, January 29, 2018, was my first day at Saraland High School and it was my first day of observations. Saraland High School is located in Saraland, Alabama where it is a part of the Saraland City Schools School System. Saraland High School has a student population of approximately 1,000 students. The teacher that I will be observing for this semester is Mr. Kendric Cook. Mr. Cook teaches Health to 10th graders. Mr. Cook has been teaching and coaching for 6 years and this is his first year teaching at Saraland. On my first day, I got to observe Mr. Cook and his teaching styles. Mr. Cook told me before he started his lesson that he considers himself to be a non-traditional teacher. He likes to sit at his desk or sit on top of the student desk when he teaches because he really wants to make sure that his students are engaged in the lesson. Mr. Cook told me that when he was in school his health teacher would just sit at his desk and he would not really “teach” and he

Throughout the first few class periods of Dr. Alvarez teaching, she began to take note of complaints from class

In her class, there was a time where I was there when a student was saying that another student was cheating because he kept looking at his work. Ms. Gaines was trying to ignore him, but then she went closely to him, and separated the students. But she let him know if she disrupted her class again that there would be no recess for him.

Mrs. Cirrincione has a structured morning routine. After welcoming the students, she takes attendance while the students read, sharpen pencils, and exchange books. ELA is first. While students are working silently on spelling, Mrs. Cirrincione walks around the room connecting with each student. Overall throughout the day, I noticed Mrs. Cirrincione was very engaged, never sitting at her desk unless she was conferring with a student one-on-one. Dr. Cornell, the

He even asked if I would want her to talk to the other teachers. I told him no right away. He was fine with it and continued with where he left off. He explained that recently my classwork has improved, but that he wanted to more work that should be done outside of class. He said that in order for him to see and know how I write, I should turn in some assignments. He said that I have time to turn in assignments, even though it was from September, that he would like to receive essays mostly. While he was talking the two other teachers, whose classes I was not passing, walked in, introduced themselves right away and allowed my teacher to finish what he was saying. When he was done, he started asking me questions, wanting to know why I was not turning in my assignments right away. I explained myself, telling them all that I was scared to ask for help because I did not think my work was good enough. When I said this, I started to remember moments when I brought myself down because of that

I was in the computer lab reviewing Spanish vocabulary when my fifth grade teacher entered with a stern face. She requested that Jonathan, Luke, Jack, Sydney and I came with her because she needed to speak with us. Nervous, we silently followed her out of the room and down the long,empty hallway. She remained silent as we walked, but my fellow classmates and I were not as reserved. Gathering together and beginning to whisper, we wondered why she was pulling us out of class. What could we have done wrong?

When students arrived, she spent about 7 minutes in a quiet corner with one of her female students, just talking, while all the other students worked on their “eye opener.” I asked her why she did that. She explained that the girl’s home environment wasn’t great and she was often left aside. Thus, she made sure to give her some special attention in the morning, as she doesn’t often get that at home. The other students’ did not seem bothered or jealous by it. The teacher did inform me that in the beginning of the year they didn’t quite understand it, and asked if they could have some alone time with the teacher in the morning. She taught them a lesson on “fair isn't everybody getting the same thing. Fair is everybody getting what they need” and kept repeating her motto every time like questions would arise. Eventually, students understood and stopped asking to have a private morning

The teacher I observe, Ms. Bandura, at B.V.M Visitation School, plans her classroom activies following a specific schedule. Ms. Bandura discussed her planning for Thursdays, the day I observe her, with me last week during my field experience. She takes the kids on a bathroom break right before snack time every day. She plans a journal entry, a religion lesson, and a cursive lesson before the bathroom break. After bathroom break, the children have snack time which is essentially a 15 minute recesses. After this, she does math and spelling with the children before they go to violin lessons. They go to violin lessons in two groups, for an hour total. While one group is in violin, the other group is reading quietly, reading with a partner, or getting

On a Monday morning, a class full of grade 10 students had a supply teacher named Mrs. Jones. The grade 10 students did what they wanted to do like making noises while eating their food, coming into the class late, talking to your peers/friends non-stop, falling asleep when the supply teacher is teaching something new, getting distracted by their cellphones(iphone/android), talking back to the teacher when they did something wrong and etc. But when the supply teacher told them to “Be Quiet!” 3 times they all didn’t listen so the supply teacher had no choice other than to call the principal to come up and to tell her class to “Be Quiet”. And that’s what the principal did. Came to Mrs. Jones class and told every grade 10 students to “BE QUIET”.

My practicum took place on September 7,2016 from nine thirty to ten thirty. The practicum took place at Impact Early College High School in Baytown. The class I observed was Ms. Nguyen’s class of juniors and seniors that contained twenty students, seven boys and thirteen girls. The class appeared to be alert and ready to learn. Since this was their second period class they already had enough time to shake off their fatigue. The subject was Pre-Calculous and the topic was operations of functions. Students entered the classroom in a calm manner and socialized until it was time to start class. The teacher instructed the students to take their seats and take five minutes to write their assignments into their academic calendar. The teacher went

There were two students using iPads with the volume up loud enough to hear as I entered as well. Three students were riffling through a bucket of plastic letters without being entirely successful in finding the letters they were seeking. Two students were using a drawer of foam letters and word cards to put the letters on the corresponding word. The final student was alone just looking at a book herself. The teacher was going back and forth between the groups who were working with letters trying to assist them in picking the correct letters. She would say the sound while feeling her throat and then tell them the letter they needed and find it for them in the box. She went to the group looking in the tub for letters and found letters for them as well. A cause for concern that we noticed was that she was asking the students to sound out the word “said” as well as having written on the board next to the sight words students were spelling that the vowel team ai =e (meaning short e sound). Mrs. Williams though it necessary to jump in at this point and make a correction since she was teaching something contrary to the curriculum and pointed out that sight words like “said” do not follow the rules of phonics always and need to be taught as a whole word. Also during this brief observation we noticed Mrs. M. having difficulty with the student who was alone. She was not engaging in any work after being asked to join the group and instead took a book and hid