Kidwatching Essay

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Kidwatching shows many different things when it comes to collecting data on how a student or student’s learn over a period of time. When doing kidwatching observations, it is important to monitor everything that could have an influence on a student’s performance. Different things such as resources, environments, interactions, etc. are a few things that can affect a student when it comes to learning. Being able to kidwatch at Killian Elementary, I’ve been able to collect a great deal of data when it comes to seeing a student as a scientist. This opportunity has allowed me to look at teaching science many different ways that can show how much students are interested and how much he/she understands. During the weeks of EDEL 450, I served …show more content…

Giving this opportunity, I can say when it comes to being a scientist my small teacher focuses more on the bigger picture than the actual findings of assignments. For example, during the Owl Pellet observation he focused more on the overall owl pellet like how it looked, smelled, etc. but instead of wanting to analyze what was inside of it. Realizing how much his focus normally is on the bigger pictures shows how much teachers should stress how important other things such as predictions, hypothesis, etc. are when it comes to analyzing science experiments. Normally allowing students the opportunity to make predictions before experiments helps them to understand the objective of the assignment. According to “Teaching Science to Every Child”, we use what we know to anticipate what’s going to happen, and we find out whether our prediction is correct (Settlage, 2012). Stressing how important it is to make a prediction to my small teacher would better his focus on looking for particular things during the experiment because it would also help him focus on whether or not his prediction is correct or incorrect. Also during my observations at Killian, I can say my small teacher has trouble focusing during assignments, but with my help of explaining assignments and the …show more content…

My first way would be explaining to them that Dan is a student who is autistic. By getting them to understand this particular thing would help understand how much affect this has when it comes to learning. Informing them about this condition will show them why things such as instructions, directions, etc. should be stressed numerous of times to Dan because he can be distracted fast. Another way I would communicate to an outsider to understand Dan is by informing them that he becomes motivated in learning when he is interested whether it’s the topic, resources, assignments, etc. The article “Meeting the Needs of English Language Learners” states that people do not learn if they are confused or bored (Freeman, 2000). Students become more engaged in lessons when he/she is interested. Using the previous example about my small teachers excitement to use the chromebook showed his level of motivation. Also during this lesson, he was very interested in watching the videos their teacher allowed them to watch. During lessons, videos give students the sense that he/she is watching TV and most of the times videos provide great animation information on topics that strikes students

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