Science And Classroom: Video Analysis

1. Describe the organization and physical setting of the classrooms you observed. Pay particular attention to safety and accessibility, the physical arrangement of the room, the classroom environment and appearance (Danielson 2e):

1. The only change in the classroom was all of the children special notes from their parents, "My child is Special because" The teacher posted them on all them were posted on the door.

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.

In short, the video titled, “Extending Lesson Understanding: Vocabulary Development,” explored the practice of covering vocabulary at the end of the unit rather than the beginning. While this is a rather uncommon practice, the video captured 7th grade English teacher Katie Langlois’ attempt to do so. Langlois utilized the “Jigsaw” strategy and divided her students into heterogeneous groups of four to determine vocabulary words from clues. All of the vocabulary words related to Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address,” which the class previously covered. Each student possessed a clue—the first letter, number of syllables, last letter, and definition—that would help reveal what the vocabulary word in question was. Students had to work together

This video segment occurs in a self-contained special education classroom with two children Alec a 9-year-old boy with autism and Tami who will be assisting the teacher. Alec has difficulty with displaying appropriate behavior with his peers. He previously greeted a student by kissing them and he greeted another child by saying, “You are a little boy” which hurt the other child’s feelings. The teacher’s goal for Alex is to teach him socially appropriate ways to communicate with other students and also how to respect their boundaries and personal space.

For my second classroom observation I decided to go back to Shandin Hills Middle School. While at Shandin i had the honor to observe my eighth grade honors algebra one teacher, Mrs. Shanti. Mrs Shanti at the time that she was my teacher, taught the only honors algebra one class on campus but recently due to Common Core, Mrs Shanti is now a intermediate seventh grade math one teacher. It was rather interesting in seeing how Mrs.Shanti taught intermediate students opposed to honor

As I reflects on the video, I feel that parents should understand the importance of the brain and how it can determine the way a child achieve in live. As educators we have to educate our parents on how the brain can affects the early adversity on children development. According to what I have learned, we have to recognize problems and address them before they get worse (Harvard University). In early childhood, research on the biology of stress shows how major adversity, such as extreme poverty, abuse, or neglect can weaken developing brain architecture. The earliest years are the more crucial to the child, however, there should be prevention to protect the brain (Harvard University). Consequently, this can cause the body to react to stress

I enjoyed reading this article and watching the videos because classroom meetings and positive classroom management seem like very beneficial concepts for a new teacher, like myself. Starting the day off with a classroom meeting full of handshakes, eye contact, and friendly comments sets the tone for a great day and gives the students important social skills for later in life. How many times do you walk into your workplace and go sit at your desk without talking to people? Typically, people make eye contact, greet the people going by, and carry on friendly conversations with others before they even start their actual work day. Classroom meetings open up the floor for positive discussions and help students feel like they have a voice in the classroom. I like the activity that involves the students getting up and changing seats. Like the boy on the video said, sometimes students just need to get some energy out. An interesting point from the video was that attendance is up since that school started having classroom meetings. That is an excellent indicator that these meetings are beneficial.

Being well communicator bring me a positive relationship between the children and co-workers too. From the preschooler video, the RECE is asking questions about their favourite foods and asking compare the fruits and veggies. From the infants and toddlers video, the RECE asking a child what do you doing Lilly? Jack and Jill went up the hill. Furthermore, another RECE calling the child when she look an “Elmo” book” she said hi Elmo “Asking open and end” question will help their cognitive development. Effective communication will builds a positive and strong relationship between the RECE and the children.

Primary, some parts of the case preparation chart was confusing at first, such as putting values on certain criteria in order to choose the best possible answer. However, it did help me gather my thoughts and formulate potential solutions for the case study. Conversely, I was stuck when having to put myself into the instructor’s point of view in order to correctly access the issue. Correspondingly, my initial solution to the problem was for the instructor to look back at previous works of the students to in order to compare writing style and credibility of the doubled assignment and both of the student’s past work. However after discussing it with my group I realized my solution wasn’t an effective method as it essentially focused on judging the two students con their past. Ultimately, my final answer was to give them both zeros on the assignment which did surprise me considering originally I thought that giving them both zeros was unfair.

As there is not much instructional time in this classroom, it is very hard to assess their use of visual supports, differentiated instruction, or classroom management. There is one strategy that is used every day for in many different settings in the classroom and that is the use of song. Songs are used for transitioning from one area to the next throughout the day. For example, when playtime is over the teachers sing a sing to let the children know that there are five minutes left to their play. This however is never accurately timed and the time until clean up varies from one minute till five minutes. Once the time is up, the teachers sing the clean up song to try and motivate the children into helping them clean. This is the transition to

The researcher observed a class of twelve four to five year olds at a preschool in New York. The majority of the children were white and male presenting. However, the gender ratios in each trial varied, since not all children were in attendance every day. Furthermore, not every child in class was observed in each trial, which also caused variability in how many children were observed in a given trial. For instance, in the first trial, the researcher studied three girls and three boys of eleven children. In the second trial, the researcher observed four girls and four boys of ten children. In the third trial, the researcher studied four girls and four boys of nine.

Working scientifically is extremely important within the classroom, for it is an educational process which allows children to advance upon their scientific enquiries and knowledge through the means of investigation, bettering their ‘understanding of the world around’ (IAP, 2012 cited in Harlen and Qualter, 2014:100). The nature of working scientifically incorporates the children’s learning of systems, methods and contexts within the scientific world, allowing them to develop an understanding of the scientific ideas and processes whilst using ‘skills employed by scientists’ (IAP, 2012 cited in Harlen and Qualter, 2014:100). These scientific enquiry skills developed and used through scientific working are especially significant within the classroom because they are also applicable to colloquial life, for example, the enquiry skills of: observation and questioning.

Second graders are expected to do numbers of things such as tie their shoes, color inside the lines, and memorize their multiplication table, but they are rarely ever expected to learn a new language. My first time moving to America, I did not know a single word of English. I used to be a an honor student when I lived in the Philippines. After moving, I wanted to continue being the same successful student that I was in the Philippines. So I worked harder than the average second grader and learned a new language because I was determined to. Now I am fluent, and it was all because I wanted to be that kid who wanted to excel in his education. I believe I have the determination, work ethic, and necessary drive to attend RAHI.

In the first video “Mr. Keating's Unorthodox teaching”, the teacher uses a variety of processes and content, in very unconventional ways, to maintain the student’s attention by moving from one activity to the next; while, maintaining focus on the same lesson (359). This was an active learning or hands-on classroom because of the group activities requiring participation. This style of teaching brought the students into the center of the lessons and gave them a different understanding by observing the lesson from a different perspective by using differentiated instruction (368). This brought the whole class as a group together under instruction by the teacher doing whatever it took to bring the class to an understanding of the lesson.