Schoolroom Classroom Observation In The Homeroom Activity

I had the pleasure of observing a classroom containing kindergarteners through second graders. In these classes I observed two students. One male one female. They had a variety of different traits and displayed skills to provide information of their development. Each of these children was at different stage of their development. I also visited a special needs classroom. They had a variety of traits that showed their development as well. They differ from the other students I observed.

Another aspect of creating an enabling environment is the indoor environment. Rich indoor environments have a positive impact on the children's learning and development. An enabling indoor environment is a place where children who spend their time their feel comfortable, interests them and is appropriate for the children's age. It is important that practitioners plan the indoor environment carefully so that it is flexible and accommodates the children's interest and their needs. Also practitioners should make sure that the resources that they are providing are interesting, attractive and to a high quality standard. Practitioners should also make sure that all resources such as building blocks, colouring pens and pencils, dressing up clothes,

A high quality learning environment should have enough (indoor) space for children to explore their interest and supportive adults to engage them to regulate their feelings and behaviors in it. I will be assessing the “Indoor space” from the Space and Furnishings subscale section of ECERS-3 to rate an early childhood education environment. This playful learning environment is located in Discovery bay and it is named Nolan Kindergarten and Nursery School. I choose to focus a 5-6 years old children’s classroom which has two different areas namely dramatic pretend play and reading. In this essay, I will pinpoint the indoor space with reference to ECERS-3 and assess the selected venue pictures to elaborate whether it supports child development.

Prior to my observation, I was eager to have an opportunity to observe a class for an entire school day. While I certainly have a background working in school settings, I have never been able to focus on understanding and evaluating the different aspects of the school day. For my observation, I was placed in an inclusive fourth grade class. Two co-teachers ran the class of eighteen students.

The room is arranged in a way to promote group learning. The desks are grouped together in either groups of four or five. There are 18 students in the room, 3 are absent in first period. The room has three separate places to do reading, one with just a cluster of pillows, another in the corner of the room with book shelves, drapes to create a warm and fun environment, with more pillows, and another underneath a paper made tree, with a seat and more pillows. There are no other adults in the classroom, other than the teacher. There are no students with obvious physical impairments of mobility issues. There are no rules for the classroom behavior posted. The teacher is very firm, yet quite loving, the students seem to hold a great deal of respect

Previous to the activity, I was there before the children to help prepare the classroom for the day and get my activity ready. I sealed shut three, one gallon zip lock bags filled with three different colored paints including: purple, red and green. Before choice time I taped them down and set out the cards with the children's names and pictures. There were nine children in the classroom today and had six children participate. It was a big turn out and each child stayed between five and ten minutes each. The children who participated included: Jocelynn, Romeo, Luk, Brody, Emily, and Mckenna.

A safe indoor and outdoor environment of a school is very important for the young children safety and wellness. It is important that the indoor environment should be free from all hazards.It should be attractive and functional. The class should have safe equipments. I will arrange a safe and attractive classroom for the 2 year old children because furniture and good indoor environment support children's well being.I will use the furniture that will be comfortable and will have appropriate size. The children will be able to use it easily. The chairs and tables will have comfortable size for eating and working. “ furniture is an important part of the children’s environment.

Enable environment is important for children and young people in the setting because children needs to feels safe and secure in the setting because setting becomes second home for children as they eat and sleep in the setting as they all provided by the practitioners in the setting how their parents would do it therefore they have to feel safe and secure. Because indoor environment have effective quality on their learning and developing this is really important in children health and grown development and also meeting their milestones. Environments should be attractive for children and make children feel safe and secure and happy to be there in the setting and they should also be places where they can confidently play and

Room arrangement: The classroom I am has a child sized bathroom right in it making toileting easy. The children can get around the room easily as there is open walk spaces and the room is arranged well. The room itself is not very large as it is shared so there isn’t much room to engage in active play.

I attended a studio recital that featured singers of all different ages and abilities. The end of the song, when the singer would receive applause, was my favorite part of the performances because they would just light up and have a bright smile on their face. I also loved watching them take cues from their voice teacher, who was in the very back, giving them small reminders as they sang. A lot of them, whenever they would receive a cue from the voice teacher, would just start to smile and laugh a little bit. It seemed like their personality came out more when they were focusing on the voice teacher.

For the third lesson in this unit the students were to be Scientists and observe the sun's different locations in the sky. The students were to observe the different positions of the sun during the morning, noon, and afternoon. The students had to go outside and stand in front of the school to see where the sun was in regards to the school. When the students faced the front of the school, the sun was on the East side of the school so it was a great experiment for the students to see that the sun was in the East in the morning and it's position continued to change as it moved towards the West.

Properly conducted classroom observation is a powerful tool in the continuing professional development of teachers. The revised performance management arrangement for teachers, which came into force on 1 September, 2007, clearly set the expectation that classroom observations are to be developmental in nature and multi-purpose in usage. The Education ( School Teacher Performance Management) Regulations 2006 state that the total period of classroom observation allowed per performance management cycle should not exceed three hours and, in many cases, will be less, depending on individual circumstances.

On August 8, 2017, I observed a toddlers classroom and the teachers in the classroom. I enter the classroom at 8:00 a.m. that morning. The teacher introduces herself to me, and I informed the teacher what I would be doing in the classroom. During my observation, the teacher and the children start their day off with a great start for my view for my field experience. The toddler classroom had a learning rich environment that let me know that the teacher and the children are engaged in their learning and development. The class also provided great pictures on the wall to let the kids know what center to enter in when interacting with the teachers and peers. In this observation reflection paper, the readers will read about a little information about the view of the physical, social environment and the information from interviewing the caregiver, comparing and contrast one aspect of the physical and social environment, insights on what I have gained from observing the physical and social environment. In this paper, you will also read about how the caregiver helped me to understand how the center promotes safety, health, learning, and development and what standards were meet during the observation.

I observed Mrs. Ruffs First grade class at Carlin Park Elementary. The class consisted of 11 girls and 11 boys. While I watched the class, I focused in on trying to notice the difference between the two sexes. I observed that the girls and the boys are similar in the way they carry themselves. They were both very active in the activity they were playing. The activity they played was a version of tag that there was one person it and they all needed to run away from the tagger and if they were tag, they turned into a zombie where they crawled around trying to tag other people that were still in. The catch of the game is that everyone needed to run on a line in on the gym floor. Boy or girl, they all were very energetic in not wanting to get tagged. The boys sometimes went off track and didn’t pay attention to directions as much as the girls did but for the most part, the instructions were explained in detail that the first graders could understand the game and have fun playing it.

Setting up a comfortable environment when working with children is a vital component. Directed by Dinham (2011, p. 65), children learn better in well-managed, safe, and psychologically secure learning environment. Therefore, when setting up the workspace, I chose to do the activity on the table of the living room with Jenny because “she’s more comfortable working with other people around” (Scholastic, n.d.). This place also nears to the kitchen which