Classroom Observation Paper

To observe people’s listening habits, I paid close attention to each person’s nonverbal behaviors. Each time an individual moved I took note of their behavior. I carefully observed them in one of my other classes at FSCJ’s Kent campus. Since the class is three hours long, I was able to see behaviors that showed each individual actually listening, pretending to listen or not listening at all. In this essay I will discuss the behaviors of individual students during the beginning, middle and end of the class to see if the students are listening or not. At the beginning of class, I took note of what each of the student was doing. I noticed that most students were leaning forward intently with the materials they needed to take notes. Specifically,

In about the hour and half mark, I noticed the guy with the hat on lean back in his chair, while he was stroking his beard. Also the lady with the big earrings was growing tired because I noticed several times that she covered her mouth since she had to yawn. Though this wasn’t surprising because since the class is late in the day and is so long. A girl in dress who was sitting directly behind the woman with earrings brought her laptop in to take notes, but after we were in the class for two hours, I saw her shopping online on Amazon, and holding her head up with her hand as if she didn’t have the energy to keep her head up without her hand. For almost the remainder of class the girl in the dress browse the web, while the teacher was talking. Furthermore, when the teacher began to drag on a topic, students grew tired and aggravated. They began leaning back in their chair, the girl in the dress began to constantly yawn and started to playing with her hair, the guy with the hat even placed his head down on the desk to rest for a

Typically, the teacher would let us out 10-15 minutes early, so when it was 8:15, some students began to gather their belongings, but the teacher continued to elaborate on the subject she was talking on. The woman that was wearing earrings was leaning forward, as if she was about to get ready to walk out of the class, and the guy with the hat was kept shifting his eyes towards the door, he also was bouncing his leg up and down showing that he was growing impatient. Although the students were growing anxious, the teacher still continued to talk. In fact, the class actually ran pass the time schedule by almost twenty minutes. Since the class is supposed to end at 8:30 and the teacher still continued to talk, some students were sighing, especially when the teacher continued to scroll through the PowerPoint. The students were obviously not listening during this time and were more concern of leaving than what the teacher was talking about. Around 8:40, ten minutes past our scheduled release, students leaned back on their chairs, slouching, nonverbally communicating to the teacher that there were no longer interested in the subject. It was clear that none of the students were listening to what the teacher had to say. About 15 minutes after the class was suppose to end, the teacher began talking about the assignments that were due the following week, students