School Observation In School

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.

In single sex schools teachers can tailor their teaching to accommodate the different learning styles between genders to meet the individual needs of their students (Hughes). Without having to worry about making sure both genders understand the curriculum, teachers in single sex schools can focus on one group of students; meeting the needs of that specific gender.

In conclusion, researchers agree that more attention needs to be drawn upon this matter. We are still left with the question of whether same-sex physical education classes or coeducational physical education classes provide the best learning environment. Griffin (1984) and Stamm (1979) discuss that “at one end of the spectrum, some physical educators point to coeducation as a prime opportunity to test the limits of or, ideally, to

PS. 45 is a school in in Staten Island New York, serving 900 students, 61% of the students are economically disadvantaged. This is a diverse school where 5% of students are Asian, 17% Black, 48% Hispanic and 27% White. They have a population of English Language Learners that take up 6% and 23% of the school's population have disabilities. I am observing a 4th grade classroom at P.S. 45. This class is a general education class with 26 students, two of these students are English language learners and two others struggle with focusing. There are also a number of students in the class that need extra support.

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.

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.

As a child, i went to a co-ed school with both boys and girls. We had a lot of fun. These articles may lead one to believe co-ed schools are not good for children. That is not always the truth. The 1990s are much different than nowadays. A lot has changed throughout schools such as having a seating chart, the sports are organized by genders, and gym locker rooms are divided by the two genders. Kids tend to be happier when around a mix of genders. The passage "Co-Ed Schools are Here to Stay" has a lot of support for keeping co-ed schools.

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.

On the first day of observations, Ben entered the classroom and began crying once his mother left to go to the restroom. He ran after her and followed her into the restroom. Once she left, he was able to calm down and began following his teacher around. Eventually, Ben moved over to the coloring table and colored with the other students. He continued to try to talk to his teacher, Cindi, even though she was talking to other students. Ben played with other students and took a toy cash register from another girl. After he returned it, he then began to play with a toy and walked around the classroom showing it to his classmates and other teachers. He continued to play by himself, singing and talking to himself as he played. Before moving to the sensory table to play with a student teacher and another student, he gave his teacher a hug. He copied what the student teacher was doing with the beads and asked to take another girl’s beads before simply taking them. Ben was very excited about playing with the beads until he slammed his bowl down, screamed and ran over to talk to another student teacher. Later on, he returned to the sensory table only to watch the girl playing next to him.

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.

Nowadays, it seems like more and more people are pushing to put kids in public schools in segregated classes. Not by race this time, but by gender. This has been a common practice in private schools for a while, but is just now being pushed to public schools. There are pros and cons to both sides, but even though single gender classes do have some merits, co education helps development, leaves students with the same grades, and is much easier to operate.

Nowadays, it seems like more and more people are pushing to put kids in public schools in segregated classes. Not by race this time, but by gender. This has been a common practice in private schools for a while, but is just now being pushed to public schools. There are many pros and cons to both sides, but even though single gender classes do have some merits, co education helps development, leaves students with the same grades, and is much easier to operate.

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 observation take place at school, where several students was asked to try out using a website called Trello. Trello is a website that allows a group or team to manage projects as well as any single person to manage their own personal tasks. The subjects was asked to create a few common lists such as To-Do, In Progress, and Complete. Then create a few tasks that they needed to do. Most subjects really this service once they get used to it. However, when first get started without any instruction, the subjects found it to be confusing. For example, the cards (tasks) have to be drag from one list (In Progress) to another (Complete). For most other todo softwares, the users only have to click on a task that they have finished, and it will automatically be crossed out with a single click or button. This new web application found to be quiet new, but the users were willing to learn to use this web application, since they can put many details into each tasks rather than just a sentence of what they needed to do like other todo softwares.

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