For my observation, I observed Center School in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. I was observing Erin Craft an educator who was teaching third graders in elementary school at Center School. When I first entered Erin Crafts classroom I instantly felt welcomed and she made the environment safe, respectful, and caring. Erin Crafts classroom was creative, colorful and was filed with several displays of helpful posters and children’s work. Her classroom had a very open layout that had one area designated to
The observation began in the pre-kindergarten discovery room, which would be considered a natural setting due to the number of students in attendance and the presence of hearing peers. Moreover, the morning activities observed during circle time are typically featured in non-special education classrooms. Observed morning activities included selecting job helpers, calendar exercises and show and tell. The majority of the children were around the age of three and most used some type of amplification
observe in Mr. Hester's classroom? The first thing that I observed is that Mr. Hester began his class by greeting students at the door and assigning them seats. I noticed that as he did this, he had an assignment ready for students to work on as they entered the room. I observed that Mr. Hester walked around the room next to students to check their progress on assigned tasks—giving them feedback accordingly. I noticed that Mr. Hester not only explained and taught his classroom procedures to students
students at ordinary secondary schools in Zanzibar. Chemistry graduate teachers are core participants of this study to be investigated in classroom and laboratory practices. These teachers are expected to have greater influence on enhancing acquisition of chemistry practical skill at schools. They are expert and responsible for implementing chemistry syllabus in classroom level which has direct contact with the learner. Chemistry students are the centre of learning process. Any teaching activity at school
1. The classroom - Seating arrangement: The seating arrangement consist of six rows of individual chairs with table attached. Some of them are for left-handed people, which is nice. - Classroom equipment: The classroom is fully equipped. It has a huge blackboard that occupies the whole front wall, but also a computer, a projector and a screen. It has a a little stage for the teacher as well. - Space, light, warmth, noise: The classroom has a nice size: Neither too big nor too small. You can not
The video changes to the observation. The teacher requests that all eyes are on him. There is a Do Now on the front board. A boy shows the class how the problem should have been done. The teacher demonstrated to the students how to work out a division problem. He is obviously using kid friendly terminology to relate to the parts of a long division problem. Students get the answers as they are working from their seats. A student shares his answer. The student is then shown leading the class
to interact with. Michael displays several disruptive outbursts in the classroom every week. Michael loves to participate in group work and listens attentively, asks questions, and respects his peers. However, when Michael is ask to do independent work he often goes into meltdown he starts by saying he does not want to do independent work, I cannot do this work, this is stupid, and so on. He then begins to ransack the classroom. Michael turns his desk over, throws seat on side or
Nathan was observed in two classes. The first was a structured class (Science class). During this class Nathan sat in the front of the class, in a seat furthest away from the teacher’s desk, two lab tables away. He had a partner at his table, but no one sat to his left. The teacher was presenting a powerpoint presentation with in-bedded videos describing the compounds and the difference between hetrogenous and homogenuos. The teacher stood after videos and would move around the front of the
Was student: *Prepared? This would include turning the activity planning form ahead of time, having all of the materials ready to go, letting the other adults in the classroom know how they can support student, pre-reading a children’s book several times (if applicable), knowing the words to songs and finger plays by heart, etc. No, Nathaniel turned in his activity plan a week later. When he was scheduled to present his activity he arrrived late. So we re-scheduled his activity for the following
I had the privilege of watching the works of Dance Gallery Festival both nights with, in my opinion, the best seats in the house. Friday and Saturday I worked as an usher inside the house, and I was able to sit directly off stage in the vestibule to watch the performances. Although I was watching the same dances for both showings, each number looked different Saturday night, especially the piece Conversations, danced by Bliss Kohlmyer and Kara Davis. When the dancers first enter the stage the first