Essay On Classroom Observation

Hi everyone, I am observing on Wednesdays from 8-10 and Fridays 3-4 in Cuesta Children’s Center Preschool 2. I believe a child’s environment can affect their mood, social skills, ability to learn, mental health, and physical health. These essential elements need to be meet or it will affect their adult lives. I feel the Cuesta Center does a remarkable job of offering all of these, and has wonderful transitions throughout the day. I enjoy observing the teachers modeling acceptable class room behaviors, asking open-ended questions while using descriptive language to help to expand children’s speech, and they were engaged in the children’s presents. I was engrossed with how the class offers multiple opportunities for children to broaden their

Tina Pelletier is a Communications Officer at the Prince Albert Grand Council, which represents 12 First Nations in northern Saskatchewan. She is responsible for health promotions and communications in the area of Health and Social Development and has been actively involved in providing communications support to various Emergency Operations Centres created to deal with wildfires, oil spills and other health-related states of emergencies.

During the week on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays I volunteer at pine meadow elementary. I get to spend some of my time with kindergarteners that range from an age 5-6. I leave Sartell high school at 10:05 ish by walking and get to pine meadow elementary around 10:25 the time I begin. When I walk in the front doors I go straight to the office and sign in on the sheet and on my time card while grabbing a number card to clip to my clothing. Right before I begin to walk to my designated classroom, I blow my nose and sanitize my hands just to be safe. It only takes about five minutes to walk from the main office to my classroom. I go straight to the locker Mrs. Drais gave me with a special magnet on it that says volunteer; I open it up and put my

As walk into the Preschoolers classroom, I notice the kitchen straight ahead with the door closed. To the right side of me, there’s a gate to divide the Preschool classroom from the Pre-K classroom. There are three sinks inside the classroom so that the students can wash their hands, two bathrooms, one for the boys and one for the girls. As I continue to observe the class, I noticed four rectangular tables with eight chairs to each table to left side of me. There is a big blue round circle shape rug that is placed in the middle of the classroom for circle time. The students have pictures displayed on a Daily Learning Activities Board (DLA) showing math, writing, science and art work.

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

I was assigned to observe a class comprised primarily of four year preschoolers; room 102. These students had a

To understand the importance of volunteering, I volunteered at one cultural event in San Antonio downtown. It was the festival of Diwali, a festival of light celebrate in India every year, organized by the San Antonio municipal and Indian Association. In San Antonio’s downtown we have a Riverwalk and the booth was on one side of river with the bleacher and on the other side was the stadium. Folk dances of India were performed on the stage. I volunteered at a booth of drink. My job was to sell soft drinks like coke for a dollar. I made a working there on the booth and we both had almost same interests due to that I was very surprised. There was also another booth next to us. I helped them to load, carry and organize their booth with food. This

I entered the restaurant at 7:27 pm and went straight to the restroom, someone was occupying the restaurant so I decided to get in line at 7:28 pm there was 5 customer's ahead of me in line to order. I notice a lady left the bathroom, so I exited the line for ordering and went to the restroom. The bathroom was clean, well stocked with tissue, napkins and the trash was low as if it had been emptied, there was no paper or debris on the floor and the mirror was clean with no smears. I exited the restroom and reentered the line to order at 7:30 pm. I approached the counter and Anjanetta said, "my I placed your order," I ask Anjanette for the current specials and she mention the $5.00 box and I said I would like that, she ask me what piece of meet

I believe that volunteering is an important experience that shows us to just how a group of individuals can come together for a common and selfless good. While volunteering at the Croatian Cultural Center I was able to truly see men, women, and children all come together to celebrate their Croatian heritage. While I was there, I was able to read to children not only in Croatian, but with Croatian books and texts that had significant cultural references and meaning. I also taught children and young adults cultural dances and saw just how important it was to be able to connect back to your heritage and culture even though you were an ocean away. I would describe my experience as being: fulfilling, genuine, and hopeful.

Every Saturday I volunteer at a Japanese Saturday School. The particular class I help watch are the 4-5 year olds. Throughout my years volunteering I felt as if these are the years when children tend to experiment. They figure out how to push you to your braking point, they figure out what annoys you and then know just how to get at you. They know most of the differences between right and wrong though sometimes still choose the wrong decision. These kinds of actions can be seen in any type of person, but I think this is where it all starts. I feel as if at these moments my patience is being tested because I do not have much patience. But throughout the year I have grown to have much more patience from working with these little children. A

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

I work in a call center, and we decided to do a food drive. The organization we donated is called Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank. This particular organization distributes food to people in need from Phoenix east valley. When I presented the idea to my team about donating, they were not enthusiastic about it. I tried to get them engaged about donating. One of my agents is from Lebanon, which is very close to Syria. He had just came back from vacations while we were doing the food drive. He became very excited about the idea of donating, and shared his experience of volunteering in the middle east. He described how difficult it was for people to look at their kids and know they could not feed them for the day. For the next couple of days, people

It is really amazing how excited students get with the possiblity of using the computer in the classroom to assist them with their lesson. The teacher added that she uses it as a reward system, stating how affective it is in maintaining order and control in the classroom. Students knew how to navigate, go to various websites that were related to the lesson and create a folder in which to put their assignments in.

I chose to observe Mrs. Tijerina for my classroom observation. There are many reasons why I decided to observe Mrs. Tijerina. I elected to observe Mrs. Tijerina so I could see another teacher’s perspective on teaching Spanish, as she and Mrs. Fiechter are the only Spanish teachers in the school. Furthermore, I never had Mrs. Tijerina for Spanish 2, as the teacher I had left Adams Central. Additionally within the hour I was observing, there were many sophomore students that I knew personally so I was able to ask them on their options of the class. Finally, Mrs. Tijerina’s goal was to teach in a similar way to Mrs. Fiechter’s teaching, and by observing her I was able to compare and contrast the two

Many of the things that we have talked about in class were illustrated for me in