Classroom Observation

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2. Observing the teacher/student interaction, the students are highly eager to get involved in discussion. This shows that they understand and appreciate the material that is given to them. This caused me to reflect back on my sophmore year in English we didn 't have much to read that was actually enjoyable. Sure we talked about ethnicity but we didn 't get to embrace the meaning of diversity as much as he does in this class. He has two groups, the class as a whole, and the four students whom make up the honors group. I got to spend time with the honors group and you can tell the different roles and the different qualities that students have that compliment each other. Even though the class is interactive some students still hold back and …show more content…

He really wants to prefer the students for what is next for them. His lessons are focused around identity and how students should understand and appreciate the differences in each other, but to embrace the differences. Cassell explains what ever he is planning to do to the class throughly. Students are willing to interact when they have questions and concerns. He starts the class off with grammar check. He has handouts where students have to go through and correct either sentences or paragraphs. He then leads to the class reading book and as a class they discuss what they found interesting, not so interesting, and what they understood and felt about the story. Cassell at this point fades into the background and allow the students to discuss among themselves. He comes in to only steer the students back together if the topic becomes different, and or to move to something else. To make sure every student understand what they are reading, they take a quiz on their computers, and the results are sent to him. He then knows what the students do not understand and will focus his direction …show more content…

The students know who is in charge and they respect authority. He doesn 't have a set of rules on a board or anything, they just know. When I was with the honors group as they were having their lecture, they treated me with respect and looked at me as an authoritive figure. One student had asked me if he could check out a book, (we had went to the library), and it felt like I had power. These students are very respectful, and it 's funny because I don 't really remember that about my 10th grade class. They don 't question him, when he tells them to do something he does it. The class is pretty face paced but students are able to keep up. Sometimes they may spend 10 minutes on an assignment but because the students take the class every day students are able to pick back up on it. Wen he is ready to move to something different the students follow his

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