Third Observation Middle School

I observed a sixth grade classroom (eleven to twelve years of age) at a middle school in Ringgold, Georgia. The classroom seemed to be fairly even in regards to how many children of each sex were in the classroom. The majority of the students were white with a few african american and hispanic children among the mix. The sixth grade classes did not have enough employees to only teach one subject therefore, the teacher that I observed taught language arts and mathematics. The first thing you notice when you walk into the classroom is the mathematical shapes all along the upper wall like a wallpaper border. These shapes were projects from her students in the years before. The next thing that you’ll notice is the way the desks were set up. They were set up in three separate groups. One group of around twelve desks faced the

One amazing thing that I observed at my field site occurred on Wednesday. I was working with two girls on their math packets, as we usually do for the first half hour. I was doing my best to teach them a little bit more about what they were doing and some tricks to help them develop fluency with the skills they were using. When it came time to work on the project of the day, making kaleidoscopes, the girls chose to continue working on their math with me instead. One of them only stayed for about 30 more minutes, but the other girl sat with me and did math for nearly 2 hours until it was time for lunch. I was impressed by her drive and interest in mathematics at such a young age (she had just finished second grade, but we were working on a fourth

An activity that I did in elementary school that I think would be a great idea to keep it going is that the teacher brought in a bunch of goodies that are circular. Some of the things that she brought in were pizza’s, cookies, pies, Oreos, etc. Before we got to eat anything, she explained to us that pi is the ratio of the circle’s circumference to its diameter. We all washed our hands and put on gloves to measure the diameter of the food available. Not only did she stress the importance of Pi, but when she cut the pizza we talked about fractions with the number of slices that the pizza had. I think that this is a great lesson for teachers, that I would love to use in my future classroom. Pi day is always supposed to be fun when in elementary

As big 4th graders you will be coming to the scary middle school next year, only it isn’t so scary. To start with, our middle school’s mission statement is “The mission of the Upper Dauphin Area Middle School is to provide a safe learning environment for students, to encourage them to settle for nothing less than their best, and to build character that will lay the foundation upon which they will build their futures.” First, one of the best parts of the middle school is our character building discovery program. As a result of this program, we are able to believe that character is who you are when nobody's watching. This discovery program encourages positive behavior and helps kids to check their own character. In addition, our mission statement

Panther points. I read this chapter with both of my observations in mind. My observation in North Minneapolis with Erik, at the middle school, at first seemed like I wasn’t going to learn anything. However, I think I have seen the example of what NOT to do in a school environment. My co-operating teacher along with all of the teacher’s in the middle school have decided to give Panther points out as a way to positively enforce good behavior. Eric’s yellow and red card system, followed by removal from class was used as the reinforcement of bad behavior. I directly witnessed a kid, let’s call him Marcus. On day one he was helpful in helping other kids with projects and was given a Panther point for his awesome leadership. On day two he even stayed after class to clean up and pushed many chairs in to straighten up. I even commented he was so well behaved when the rest of the students were out of control. On day three I saw a change. Marcus was told by Erik the co-operating teacher, that he should be doing these respectful and nice things without the Panther Points awarded as Erik had given him a lot of points throughout the days. This child turned his attention not in a good way. His behavior went from model student back to disruptive in one twenty-four hour period. Why? Toshalis writes the answer, “….students reach the following conclusions: nothing is worth doing unless it comes with a reward.” (Toshalis. p. 281)

The Students at Brookeville high school resembled the students of any high school, broken and in need of a savior. As my team entered the football stadium we immediately recognized immodesty in the girls, in which many of those were just in middle school. We continued walking and I notice the less popular kids sitting on the grass hill, or off to the side not participating in the event. We finally reached the bleachers and observed the parents screaming and cheering on their emphasis Brookeville bees. After passing the section of adults, we found our seat behind the student section. This area was prime for observing the high school students interact.

My Observation for Ms. Lydick class started, as the students were in stations, working on fluency, word work, and writing. This week I was assigned to provide accommodations that the teacher has to do with certain students.

After observing an unusual situation in my middle school classroom I decided to research if physical activities/ sports clubs were helpful or harmful to student grades and test scores. I observed two different middle school classes, one an 8th grade the other a 7th grade. The students are from Imagine Avondale, which is located on 950 N Eliseo Felix Jr Way, Avondale, AZ 85323. Imagine Avondale is a public charter school in the Imagine Schools network, and is only 7 years old. Imagine Avondale is a racially diverse, lower middle class, K-8th school with a small population of students. There are only around 550 students, 130 of which are the middle school students; with percentages of male to female students is almost equal at

In this paper I will discuss an interview that was done with a pre-k teacher. I will also focus on the observation in which I observed regarding the program, environment, teacher guidance and classroom interactions. The interview and observation took place for forty minutes. While observing I was able to the creative curriculum.

Last night I went to a Pre-k graduation for my grandson. I decided that would be a great place to observe parenting styles. Little did I know that I would be observing parenting styles of the older children instead of the 4-5 year olds. There was a family standing next to us during the ceremony and after. I noticed a 10-12 year old boy talking to a man, maybe dad, maybe mom’s friend? The two of them were communicating back and forth fairly well. There was a little girl in the graduation class that was very out spoken and she was cute, for a little while. My granddaughter made a few cute remarks about the little girl and the lady beside us did too. So Chloe, my granddaughter, ask the lady if that was her daughter. She relied, no, I couldn’t

The school that I chose to do my field work at is called Diamond Lake Elementary School. I chose to do this school because it is five minutes from my house and I work doing recess duty at the school. I am not a teacher at the school but I do work at the school which allows me to do observations there. According to the Illinois report card Diamond Lake has 330 students enrolled.("DIAMOND LAKE ELEM SCHOOL (2-4) - DIAMOND LAKE SD 76") both the Illinois report card it is 62.4% hispanic. Upon looking at the other races I found out that there are 24.5% white students, 6.1% Asian students and 1.8% black student.("DIAMOND LAKE ELEM SCHOOL (2-4) - DIAMOND LAKE SD 76") 60% of those students are low-income and 1% of them are homeless. Although they have more than half of their students on low income they have a surprising 96% attendance rate .("DIAMOND LAKE ELEM SCHOOL (2-4) - DIAMOND LAKE SD 76")

One day in middle school, the whole 8th grade class got to go to the gym because their teacher was out for the day. Everyone knew the gym was were the bullies came to harass the other kids. The 6th graders were sitting across the gym just minding their own business, no one really ever bothered them, unless they came to the 8th graders side of the gym. There were always a few of the kids that would happen to linger across sides and the inevitable always tended to happen. They never really saw a big deal with it, other than it being sitting with the older kids. Two of the older girls were sitting at the top of the bleachers, while the younger two had come over and sat almost at the bottom of the bleachers. Even though the 8th graders were supposed

As usual, the children begin the day by having free play. I noticed that this method is used as a way to give everyone enough time to check in, while not having them miss anything specifically. I would say that the schedule for the Pre-K class begins at 8:30 am, when breakfast is served and mostly everyone has arrived and settled down. At times children do arrived while the other children have already been served. Today, I served the children their breakfast, which included a pancake, half a banana, and a cup of milk. As other children arrive, Mrs. M or I would offer them breakfast. Some said yes, while other said no. During breakfast time, Mrs. M joined one of the tables, as she had her own breakfast. Before sitting, she did ask “Is it ok if I

First, do you enjoy teaching others? If so, teach something for which you have a deep passion.

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.