Observation Experiences
I observed four very different classroom for my observation hours. The first classroom I observed was a high school culinary class. I stayed for the entire day because I wanted to see the difference between the periods and the different levels of the culinary students. The first period of the day at cypress high school is called check and connect period I found this to be very interesting because the way this program works is students are assigned one teacher and they keep that teacher for the entire four years of their high school careers. So every day they start off with the same teacher for four years, this is to establish a connection with the students and would call under the category of TPE 8 learning about the students. The reason for this period is
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The last day when I came the students frosted the cupcakes Halloween themed they made spiders and zombies and witch cupcakes. Usually the teacher was telling me because they are different levels she has different lesson plans for them to match their skill set. She was also informing me that the students don’t cook every day its every other they have in class time where they learn about sanitation and other things, kitchen safety. This class was very engaging for the students was covered in TPE 5. The teacher was telling me by teaching this class she gets to know all her students very well and she encourages any all kinds of questions, monitors progress over the years of their cooking skills. This specific teacher does a lot for the school she will cook meals for the football team, cooks meals for all the banquets the different sports teams have. This teacher cooks for almost every event and for every event she asks for student volunteers to come and help and so many of them come to help her every time and as a reward for helping they are given dinner. She calls this her catering program on campus because it is sort of like a catering business this calls
Extended class periods and block scheduling will improve student’s grades and can diminish their stress level significantly. A normal day in block scheduling consists of only four classes a day, alternating each day. These classes would last 120 minutes each, with the same 5 minute passing periods in between classes. This scheduling gives teachers more time to explain their lesson. It also gives students time to recover from the late nights due to sports and other activities because they only have four classes a day. Their homework for these classes isn’t due for another day, so they don’t have to stress over getting it done. 120 minute classes combined with blocked scheduling increases the amount of time teachers have for instruction and will overall increase the student’s knowledge, in turn, raising their grades.
Yes, we all know that one teacher who gives his/her all no matter what the case might be, but the old saying “one bad apple spoils the bunch” most definitely reigns true in this case. For example, there are teachers who do what they have to do in order to receive tenure and once they have it they feel
When I walked into the school, I was greeted by the receptionist who kindly showed me where to sign in and then directed me to the teacher I would be observing for the day. The staff was dressed very appropriate for the day and on Friday they were able to wear pink because it was October. Although I did not see much interaction with factuality with each other, I was able to witness when the teachers of a certain grade would come to pick up their students. I saw how the teachers interacted with Mrs. Lee and they were very respectful. The student’s behavior varied from class to class. Most of the classes were well behaved with only a few students causing disruption. Mrs. Lee had warned me that the kindergarten class is normally noisier than other classes, but to her surprise the students were very quiet and did their work independently with no interruptions. Mrs. Lee did a wonderful job at keeping the students disciplined within the classroom. She would give positive re-enforcement and correct students when they would do something incorrectly. She worked really well with the students and they students responded in a respectful manner to Mrs.
John Henry is a 15 year old 9th grade student who suffers from ADHD and anxiety disorder. John frequently makes inappropriate verbalizations during teacher’s instructional time. This behavior causes distractions for himself and his peers. The teacher would ask John to stop talking out of turn, but the student only stopped for a short amount of time. The teacher would then pull John out of the classroom to speak one-on-one on some adjustments he can make with his behavior to make his learning more successful. After pulling John out of the classroom, he would be complaint for 2-3 days, but not for a week long period. Afterwards, the parent/guardian were contacted, but the target behavior was still not altered in any way.
“Educational practice is necessarily based on the assumption that students are willing to engage in educational activities that they will lend their cooperation and support to the process in their education. Students who do not offer such cooperation, who are unmotivated, present significant challenges” (Williams and Ivey, 2001, 75). High school school-children show the most trouble with cooperation and motivation; they only have a few more years of schooling and for some pupils that is the end of their education. That was one of the main reasons why I wanted to observe a high school classroom; the other main reason is because I have actually considered teaching high school grades. I observed Ms. Edith Stone and her Algebra II mathematics classroom.
Ewell had to get on to 1 of the boys for continuously making racist comments. She made him settle down by making him her assistant for today’s lecture over flower dissection. It seems as though Mrs. Ewell has not really found a classroom management strategy that works for this class. The students were not out of control, but if they were a little less rowdy, more could have been accomplished. She did not put much force into making the students participate. Although this is frustrating, I think it is a good decision because some days that may not be a battle worth fighting. I admire that Mrs. Ewell took the time today to do a hands-on lab with the students. I know she can get irritated with their behavior at times, but I could definitely tell they enjoyed today’s flower dissection. It gave them a chance to relate the vocabulary words they have been using to live flowers. The only thing I would do differently with the flower dissection is make sure to mention the safety precautions necessary when dealing with the sharp
On April 14th, I got the opportunity to observe Mrs.Osborne's 11th grade AVID class and her 12th grade AP Government class. Mrs. Osborne is a social studies and AVID teacher at Reynolds High School. She has been teaching for 33 years. In the classroom the desks are set up in rows facing the front of the room. Mrs.Osborne's desk is placed in the back corner of the room. On the left side of the room there was a white board and on it written out was each classes learning objective of the day, the days agenda, and what the homework for the day is. At the front of the room students grades are posted by student ID number on a board. The left side of the room had labeled drawers with supplies.
This is used not only in the classroom and in lessons, but in meetings with other members of staff and possibly people outside the school environment, such as government officials. Being on time is a necessity, and this helps to notify people if information and plans have been altered to suit a better time or accommodate for more people. How cohesive lessons are to one another is an important factor of a child’s learning; if a student has a specific subject at the start of the school day and then at the end of it, the teacher should arrive on time, and moreover remember what happened in the period before the current lesson they are taking. This helps to keep students focused on their learning, and also aids students in developing skills of organisation that can be extremely useful in their later
Child X is 15 months old. He has dark brown eyes and has dark brown curly hair. His eyes were as big and have this loving look to them. His skin was a soft almond color. He was wearing this blue shirt with a green dinosaur on it and khaki pants. He was sitting on the floor of his classroom which is surround by many toys. The classroom was filled with colorful posters to catch the eye of anyone that comes in and is very welcoming for the infants as well as having safety in mind with how the classroom is set up.
In a classroom teachers are often limited on time that they are able to have one-on-one interaction with each student. During the class period, they are required to lecture, assign homework, and at the end, manage to find to time to work with the student. Jonathan Bergmann, a Woodland Park High School chemistry teacher, stated that the idea
Observation It is believed that observing allows a teacher to see how children interact with adults and each other, as well as, becoming familiar with their everyday behaviours and the range of abilities in the classroom (Dowling, 2010). IPTE has allowed me to observe a number of teaching techniques, assessment methods and positive behaviour management strategies. Across a period of four weeks, I was able to spend two days a week observing in four of the five classrooms within the school, both in Foundation Phase (FP) and Key Stage 2 (KS2). The observation period enabled me to gain a good insight into lesson planning, the running of the school, strategies and policies used as well as the integration between FP and KS2. However, what stood out to me over the four weeks was the schools methods and use of Assessment for Learning (AfL).
Everyone that attends Brickell academy, please rise as we share our ideas about the science project. I am comparing the cells to an environment. I also am starting from the outside of the organelle and closing in. The plant cell that I am using is a vascular type. I choose our learning environment. The superior school. I think, that the school is a great example because of it's cell wall and membrane.
"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as every child should be instilled with the wish to learn."
For my observation experience I went to Southern High School in Harwood, MD. Southern High School has a special education department for the students with disabilities. The teacher that I met with for this classroom observation was Ms. West. In the classroom there were at least four assistant teachers that helped Ms. West throughout the school day. The assistant teachers helped Ms. West co- teach the class and were there to help the students if they needed extra help. The school also has a couple of student aides that come in to help the teachers and the students in the classroom. There were at least twelve students in the classroom. The students in the class had many different exceptionalities such as learning disabilities, Down syndrome,
Through classroom observation I was exposed to the different methods of teaching a lesson. The methods of teaching depends on how will the teacher execute the lesson well. I learned that modern learners today needs both modern and traditional way of teaching as for them to fully learned the lesson in a meaningful way.