February 27,
This observation I did a lot of watching to gain a explicit knowledge of class' learning abilities and personalities. I noticed that every time "R" looks at the board or someone else she is squinting, therefore for our lessons I need to make sure everything is large and bring any examples to each table. "M", "C',"N", and "E" are very bright and speedy with their answers to the sentence creations (for the words of the week). These students did not need any refocusing and when called on gave excellent sentences fast. However "Ch" and "T" were completely off task throughout the majority of the whole group lesson. I observed that "R" does not like to speak at all because when I went to look at her paper she had correct sentences written but when called on she didn't say anything. These learning behaviors will be taken into account when creating lessons. I worked mostly at one table when they were finishing up their stories. I learned a lot about "Te" and "A". "Te" has great ideas and is very bright, however she just needs someone to spark her knowledge for her (like a question, re-explaining, etc.) While "A" needs a lot of one on one time to understand topics and procedures. Because when left to do procedures by herself she is very lost. "M"however is very advanced she asked me how to spell pediatrician and only left out the "a"!
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Observation Two
February 23,
During this observation I spent little time with the students and did more watching. The class worked as a whole class on the smart board then worked individually on worksheets. I noticed that our teacher had to constantly correct this little boy name "T" ( I changed up the name). At first I thought he was being bad then I started paying attention to what he was doing and she actually was being quite mean to him. When they were told to go sit on the carpet it was him and two other little girls being really wild. Our teacher only yelled at him, although he was laughing because one of the girls had put her legs on him. But on a good note the class is extremely enthused with usage of the smart board.
During this observation I spent little time with the students and did more watching. The class worked as a whole class on the smart board then worked individually on worksheets. I noticed that our teacher had to constantly correct this little boy name "T" ( I changed up the name). At first I thought he was being bad then I started paying attention to what he was doing and she actually was being quite mean to him. When they were told to go sit on the carpet it was him and two other little girls being really wild. Our teacher only yelled at him, although he was laughing because one of the girls had put her legs on him. But on a good note the class is extremely enthused with usage of the smart board.
Observation One
The following blogs will not have different dates from today's because I wrote my observations a LONG time ago but now I'm "blogging" them!
February 22,
Today was a very interesting visit. I saw how math can be incorporated into a history lesson and how to teach a sensitive era, Civil Rights, to very young children effectively. I really liked how she taught "carrying" and "subtraction" through addition knowledge. The teacher asked how old would a person be if they were born in 1732 today? Our teacher began with a simple problem 2 +__ = 10. Then she stepped it up, writing 32 +___ = 40 asking what number added to 32 will give you 40 and told them put big number in their head and count on until they get to 40 (33,34,35,etc.) She continued this process of step by step using simple math and addition facts to get 275 years old. Also I really liked how the classroom supported this problem, she asked the students to look around the class to find out who was born in 1732. She constructed a time line to support the segments of the Civil Rights video, each clip had a few sentences summarizes information learned and a space on top for the students to illustrate their knowledge. She informed me that she placed an already made example in front of the class and explained the video clip/words on their story segment to support students whose literary skills were low and others who were lost with the content.. This exercise was a great way to reinforce the information they had learned previously about key American leaders. However I did not understand why she was so hard on certain students for their coloring. She would scold kids if they colored a person's face purple or drew stick figures. I felt bad because I probably would've gotten in a lot of trouble if I were in her class for the fact that I could not draw well.
February 22,
Today was a very interesting visit. I saw how math can be incorporated into a history lesson and how to teach a sensitive era, Civil Rights, to very young children effectively. I really liked how she taught "carrying" and "subtraction" through addition knowledge. The teacher asked how old would a person be if they were born in 1732 today? Our teacher began with a simple problem 2 +__ = 10. Then she stepped it up, writing 32 +___ = 40 asking what number added to 32 will give you 40 and told them put big number in their head and count on until they get to 40 (33,34,35,etc.) She continued this process of step by step using simple math and addition facts to get 275 years old. Also I really liked how the classroom supported this problem, she asked the students to look around the class to find out who was born in 1732. She constructed a time line to support the segments of the Civil Rights video, each clip had a few sentences summarizes information learned and a space on top for the students to illustrate their knowledge. She informed me that she placed an already made example in front of the class and explained the video clip/words on their story segment to support students whose literary skills were low and others who were lost with the content.. This exercise was a great way to reinforce the information they had learned previously about key American leaders. However I did not understand why she was so hard on certain students for their coloring. She would scold kids if they colored a person's face purple or drew stick figures. I felt bad because I probably would've gotten in a lot of trouble if I were in her class for the fact that I could not draw well.
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