My sixteen-hour observation was at Bradley Middle School. Bradley is located in the North East Independent School District. I was lucky to be able to observe Mona Hughes in September 2016. She not only teaches 8th grade history, she is the head of the history department. She has six classes that ranged from co-teach to Pre-AP. I was able to experience the classroom setting with a mixture of students.
It was an amazing experience getting to be a part of those classes. I got to observe her never using just one teaching method at a time, they were always paired up. There was always a visual with every lesson. Ms. Hughes would read things out loud to the class. She always stopped and clarified what the passage was saying by asking questions. The
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It’s a hard job that you have to be passionate about. I enjoyed my time in the classroom, being able to interact with the students. There was one girl in the class that struggled with doing her homework and classwork. I would stop by her desk to help her out and keep her on track. I did this with a few students but I saw that she was struggling to fit in at school. I always tell my daughter to smile at people at school. Sit with the kid who is sitting alone at lunch. You never know if your smile is the thing that made that day bearable for them. This girl made me feel like she needed that extra smile. She was never really friendly towards me, even refused my help. I didn’t back down. I stayed and helped her with a few problems. A few days later I was walking out of the HEB heading to my car. I see the girl from class walking with her mom. Her mom was ahead of her talking on her phone. The girl made eye contact with me and smiled. She waved like she was really excited to see me. I smiled at her and asked how she was doing. As soon as they passed me, I heard her telling her mom that she knew me from school. She sounded so genuinely happy to see me. Every time I doubt my abilities to be a teacher, I just have to think of her. Harmony is the reason I want to
For my second observation I was assigned Mrs. Megan McKee’s 1st grade class. Her class was very warm and welcoming. She is an amazing teacher that shows her kids that she truly cares for them and their education. She shows this love through her student-teacher interactions. An example of these interactions are when a student had a question about their math work she immediately stopped what she was doing and helped explain the work step by step although she has already done this multiple times. Another example I noticed was when a student accidently tripped over another student’s chair leg she easily calmed her down and took care of her. One method of teaching Mrs. McKee used was interaction stations. The students had 6 different stations that they would have a set amount of time at and then they would rotate when their time was through. The stations included coloring, shapes, math, online learning, tablet learning, and word work.
Many of them who kept me inspired and made me want to become someone great, were the same ones who thought they should give it all up and do something different. It was then that I realized that teachers need to be reassured that they are making a difference in the lives of their students. For Cindy, all it took was for Claudia, just one student, to remind her why she belongs in a classroom. One bad year does not deem an educator unfit for the profession, it just means they need a morsel of encouragement to push them to the next phase. Even if it is a single student that expresses his or her appreciation, it is
Mr. Mulcahey taught this class, and he is the best teacher I have ever had. He always kept all students engaged. I would never get bored or confused in Current Events because we would always be learning something interesting. He knew about all of the events we learned about and was able to answer any question the class had on the topics. Mr. Mulcahey knew how to connect with his students in a way that made him not only our teacher, but also our friend.
She employs energetic guest presenters, to keep her adult learners awake and interested. Small group activities keep the class going and you can find help in your groups. Personally, small group activities are a great idea, because it’s a time to get social and bounce ideas off of everyone, causing a better class environment, and a tight knit social experience. She also has lectures that last no longer than 15 minutes per topic. That is a great way to handle lectures.
I was grateful for that experience and moment with my student because it reaffirmed to me that building relationships with your students is very important. The student-teacher relationship can change lives and leave a life-long impact on the student, as well as the
I spent the whole night reading about the differences teachers make on student’s lives and how their hard work pays off in the eyes and minds of their students. The more I divulged in the books, the more I pictured myself leading the future of our community. From that day on, I was determined that teaching was going to be how I was going to spend the rest of life. I never knew that all I needed was for someone to see something in me as a student to affect my whole future and how I can possibly have that effect on future generations.
This past April, I was able to attend the Ambleside Internship held in Colorado, along with two others. Each day started by us coming together with a group of approximately eighteen others to read, narrate and discuss Charlotte Mason's ideas. We were also given set times to observe in the classrooms. When I was able to attend different classrooms, I quietly sat and observed the teacher and student engage different subjects and ideas. Each classroom was a peaceful atmosphere to sit with the text (be in picture study, bible, math, composer study, frobel, or phonics) remain the focus of each lesson. Teachers moved about the room giving support to each child’s individual weaknesses, and yet remain an alley to form a connection with the big ideas. I was able to take part in classrooms from Kindergarten through Sixth grade, learning new ways to bring the children the vast table of information set in front of them. It was also a great reward for me to revisit the Colorado school as this is where I attended my week long institute along with some of the staff currently teaching. On Thursday during lunch the staff came to have lunch with us and we were able to talk with a few about any questions we had after visiting their classrooms.
The classroom I observed Tommy is in has about 20 children and two teachers. The age range for this class is between 36- 48 months and Tommy is 47 months. The purpose of this observation is to assess the child to see what appropriate skills based on their age they are able to accomplish. If children are struggling to meet the appropriate brackets the teacher is to set goals that are to help the children become successful and accomplish the goals. In this paper I will be talking about the Carolina Assessment Log and what SMART goals I think may be appropriate for Tommy.
I had the privilege of doing my middle school observation at Corkscrew Middle School. While I was there I observed a seventh grade language arts class. This school has a total student population of 726. Of those students 320 are White, 55 are Black, 325 are Hispanic, 3 are Asian, 15 are Multiracial, and 8 are Indian. Approximately 52% of the school’s student population are economically needy.
In my EDUC 250 class, I have had the opportunity to be able to observe in three different classrooms in a public school. I observed in a general education classroom, as well as a two different special education classrooms. Being in the environment and seeing how the students learned was fascinating. They didn’t mind me being in the classroom watching and taking notes, they just had questions about me, which was expected because they are curious little youngsters. Overall, I enjoyed my time in the classroom and being able to interact with them as well.
A good education has always been drilled into my head ever since I was a little girl. Boy did I hate that, all I wanted to do was goof off and have fun with my friends. But as the years went on I started to realize how important it was to have a good education. Not that that made me like school anymore than I did; but I was realizing the different ways I was learning and how different people taught. I remember saying one day, when I was a freshman in high school, that if I was teaching this class I would have never taught it that way. Unfortunately, my teacher overheard me and I was forced to go to the front of the room and explain to the class the way it should be taught since I knew so much about teaching. Needless to say I did an awful job of it. That is when I started thinking about becoming a teacher. I know that does not make sense because I did such an awful job and was humiliated doing it. I did not like the way that man taught and I was determined to take his job. However, the reason I am here today is not that I want to take a teacher’s job; it is because I have the desire to make a difference in the lives of many students. I hope I will be a good teacher so that I will never have to hear a student say something bad about my teaching.
In my freshman and sophomore year of high school I had the same English teacher. Her name was Ms. Watkins and she was a graduate from Longwood. She made reading hard more interesting. Dante’s Inferno, and then she had us build a level of his version of hell out of food. After everyone shared what they had created we got to eat it. We read Jane Austin’s, Pride and Prejudice. Shortly after we finished reading it the book called
"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as every child should be instilled with the wish to learn."
Like many people, my personal experiences have shaped who I am. As a future educator, I want my students to respect me as a teacher, but understand that I will be there for every one of them, whenever they need me. I will not judge them; I will only encourage them to do their best. I will show them that learning can be fun and that school is more than just memorizing facts, it’s about opening your mind to new ideas and experiencing things that will change your
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,