Classroom Observation Paper

Everyone learns at a different pace and in different ways. When trying to manage different learning style it can be difficult for the teacher to teach the whole class. In this paper, I am going to identify, analyze, critique instruction and assessment, and behavior strategies that affect a typical, special need, and gifted student.

Typical Student I observed a six-year-old girl, who was a kindergarten student. In this classroom, it was designed to make sure each student was able to receive proper instruction. There were picture visual schedules, alphabets letters, and numbers posted on the walls. Her family was very religious, and their religion background was Baptist. The teacher views were for every student to feel comfortable and respect

This allows student more options on how they can learn and understand from different concepts. Students will have clear expectation set to follow from beginning of the school year. When students raise your hands before speaking, do not get out your seat without permission, and always use their inside voices, good behavior is rewarded. I think changes I would make will be introducing PBIS for my students. “PBIS is an approach that schools can use to improve school safety and promote positive behavior. It’s also a way for schools to decide how to respond to a child who misbehaves” (Lee, A, 2018). This will help promote positive behavior and prevent bad behavior. Assessment has been used to gathered and provide educators and families with information in regards about their child development and growth. It helps identify how well the student is doing and areas she is struggling with. Instruction and behavioral support were aligned to prepare students to master their skills and individual

His family was not involved much, his grandparents participated occasionally. The classroom he was in was set up based on what was necessary to meet his learning objectives. Picture visual schedules and print wall information such as numbers and math charts were displayed to help make it easier for him to learn. Families play a significant role in how their child perform when at school, it can affect their education from lack of support from family. His family background influences resulted in him having some delay in some additional and subtraction problems, however, he enjoyed working as a team with math group assignments and small projects. Differentiation classroom instruction that were used for him and the students in this class was flexible grouping. In the group, each group was given a math problem and students was given an opportunity to raise their hands to answer the question. Students was also given a problem and they utilize counting blocks to show how they get their final answer to addition and subtraction problems. For example, I will give students 20 blocks and I will give a problem such as 5+5, the student will use the blocks by counting them out to equal 10. Positive behavior support that was used in this classroom is making sure students are being respectful of others. I think rewarding students when they display good behavior helps promote positive behavior