The teacher that I am with for my junior high observations is not really a veteran teacher she’s only been teaching for a little over a year. She has a business background to tie in with her teaching experience. Her main goal for the year is to try to teach the class how to act in a classroom because they can barely stand to sit still in their seats. Her main rules are: be respectful, don’t throw things, keep your hands to yourself work quietly and be prepared for class. If the students break these rules they have to write them all and a paragraph of her choosing as many times as she marks on the sheet for disciplinary assignments. She is a very positive person and keeps track of mistakes, so she can fix them and become a better teacher. This …show more content…
She has to tell the students that the bell has rung and that they need to stop talking and get to work. The student have the skin sensitivity lab and study guide as the last class. This class is very loud disruptive and immature in their groups. The teacher has to keep a closer eye on this class than she did the first one. The students don’t want to sit down or raise their hand and they try to copy other people’s answers instead of doing the work on their own. When the students need help getting their head around an answer she uses real word examples to help them out without doing the work for them. They are easily distracted and continue to act up even when another teacher or student enters the room, the first group didn’t pay much attention to who went in or out of the room. The students have to constantly need to be told, to sit down, talk quitter and to pay attention when she is giving directions. She tries to get them to be active listeners, but they refuse to listen or cooperate with her. The noisy groups refuse to separate when she ask and are every defiant. There is a student who has to do the paragraph assignment for goofing off and causing trouble all
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.
Student teaching has taught me to appreciate the wisdom of mentors and experienced teachers. There were several times when my field based supervisors pointed my in the right direction when faced with challenges. I recall a student that I suspected to have copied his homework from other students. I stressed that we figure out how he did it but I could not some up with any definite facts to prove he had did so. Ms. Darling insisted that I not worry about it and if he did cheat then it would be revealed on his exam. Surely enough, the student failed his exam miserably. During a teacher/parent conference, I asked him how he managed to receive an A on all of his homework and fail his exam so poorly. To my astonishment the student confessed to having copied his homework from other students. His mother immediately addressed both issues with her child and needless to say I did not have the problems form the student anymore. During my computer Information technology Course, discipline problems plagued me during the first two weeks of student teaching. Mr. Washington, another field based supervisor told me to began calling parents immediately after class. He told me to call everyday if I had to. Surely after a few phone calls to parents, behaviors adjusted quickly. By the end of my student teaching time period, in my opinion I had a model classroom as far as classroom behavior goes.
For this field assignment, I chose to observe a seventh grade self-contained math class at William A Morris I.S 61 on Staten Island. I am currently a substitute teacher at the school and has worked at this school for approximately two years. For the purpose of this observations, I worked with Mr. Karl Knutsen, a 6th and 7th grade math, special education and technology supervisor at the school. Mr. Knutsen has been a teacher for seven years and has worked in I.S 61 for five. He currently teaches all self-contained math classes and is the "tech guy" for the building, meaning he is the go-to guy for all SmartBoard or computer based questions and emergencies. I am currently observing and working with Mr. Knutsens first and second period 7th grade class, 717. This class has 12 students, 11 boys and 1 girl, ranging in ages 13-14. Each student has an IEP for varying
I’ve noticed in my observation times that students will only really respect and listen to a teacher if he or she isn’t actually screaming at them. They
She may in turn be an oppressor to her students as she attempts to discipline these students while using aggressive teaching technique to get them to meet testing and other policy
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.
I sat with her every other day for the first four months of the past school year, and gave her specific expectations and examples to ensure extreme clarity. This teacher became one of our most requested staff members this year, due to her successful implementation and the step-by-step planning of the newly adopted Common Core State Standards. She truly respected the time that I took to work along her side, even though I hadn’t taught Language Arts or History at the Middle School level. The wealth of instructional strategies that I provided, alongside her content knowledge served her Steadiness Personality and Behavior style that is motivated by cooperation and sincere appreciation.
There are occasions when teachers rather go by the book and never go out of the box because it will seem too much work for them to do. The teacher of Mike Rose would mention he had been teaching for two years and he clearly had not real life experiences. He did not know how to handle his students and rather go by the book than making it interesting for them. In Mike Rose, short story, “I Just Wanna Be Average” he states, “I developed further into a mediocre student and a somnambulant problem solver, and that affected the subjects I did have the wherewithal to handle.” (126) Mike did not have any more energy to do anything because the teacher cannot handle on making the subject good for him to understand. The teacher did not have any experience in making the class interesting or involving for the students. When there is a good teacher there must be some experience and involvement that can connect them to the real world, but at the same time be compassionate. It shows how some teachers have no expectations for their students to learn and rather be lazy about it and have them fail. Like Mike states, in his story that some parents did not know if they student were being taught correctly or how he was placed on the wrong level classes and had to stay there for two years. It also shows
Our current math teacher usually overreacts to what is going on and then puts 1 or 2 names on the board. Since it is usually the same group of people talking and rarely anybody else the person who is getting their name on the board will also end up overreacting and claiming that she is biased towards the quieter kids. Our class has made her walk out of the class in anger a couple of times this year. I’ve asked other kids in the school about what she is to their class and one of them said that she despises their class and that they’ve gotten her to cry before. I feel bad for her because I kind of thought that she would be better than last year’s teacher but as soon as our class found out that she overreacts to most people talking they just got worse. I’m more of a quiet kid but I’ll still occasionally talk in
Williams it’s very busy with learning stuff everywhere. The classroom has different section called ‘centers’ like the library. In the middle is where the desk are placed they are grouped into 5-6 student at each table. I immediately noticed some negative behavior management on the part of the teacher by yelling at the students that wasn’t listening to her instructions. Another behavior management tool that doesn’t seems to work completely well was the point system that give or take a point from any student based on their behavior or action throughout the day. Most students seem to not be so thrilled or fazed by losing a point or when they gained one. But the teacher used this system quite frequent to make her point and take action. An action taking by the teacher that I felt was problematic is when she questioned a student that was better behaved, if another student was misbehaving. This action could lead to negative behavior for child-child interaction and
It is more than obvious that not every student in the class is completely committed to obtaining the most wisdom possible from a lesson. These students impact the entire environment of a certain class whether the teacher intends for that to happen
I’ve had teachers who taught in a way that was a good way for them to teacher, but wasn’t a good way for students to learn. I know I want to be a high school teacher, and by the time they will reach my class, my students should know how they should be presented the information, so that they can learn in such a way that is best for them. A teacher should be able to teach in a way that’s suitable for the majority of students, and be able to give extra help to those who don’t learn as the other students do. I want to be the teacher who is willing to put in extra time with the students for their classroom
The school that I visited was new. It was the first year of the school opening. The school board had combined two schools into one, so the students had to adjust to their new environments and new individuals. They seemed to be getting along well with each other. Since the school is new the teacher has to adjust to new problems that araise. Times for the subjects and times for using the computer labs change. So the teacher must always be fixable for anything. In this observation of this classroom I learned about the enjoyment of teaching. How you have to adapt to each of the students.
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,
I attended a second grade class at Smallville Elementary on February 22, 2014; the class began promptly at 0855. There are 26 children in this second grade class. There are 15 male students and 11 female students. The student diversity is 2 Hispanics, 1 African-American, 1 East Indian, and 1 New Zealander (White but with an extreme accent). Three children were left-handed.