Classroom Behavior Video Analysis

One of the primary responsibilities of teachers is to help their students learn. It can be difficult for learning to take place if the learning environment is not productive and conducive to learning. In this class the teacher to a kinesthetic approach to the lesson, which involved keeping students engaged in activity with and without the presence of the teacher. She used letter tiles to model the words they mentioned to the students, or those mentioned by other students. Secondly, this video depicts behavior issues as a result of lack of concentration. The teacher decides to move the students who are having trouble concentrating to a seating area just next to her. She uses this proximity strategy to monitor behavior, reactions, and also …show more content…
It is always good to assess and address a students’ level of engagement during instruction rather than after... In this video the teacher encourages students to demonstrate their mastery of the concept being taught by engaging them in small group discussions. In these small groups, students take turns sharing how that interpreted what they read in class. The goal was to help the students learn how to correctly write words and pronounce words with short vowel sounds. They used letter tiles to individually create words that contained the /ur/ sound. The students then took turns reading the words such as furl or curl and the teacher used the words that the students create to create sentences, she used these sentences to reinforce the concept later on in the …show more content…
First, the teacher should maximize the structure in the classroom. That is to ensure that the class is not congested and that the students have free space for seating and movement. The students worked on several tasks during this video and the classroom would have been ideal for learning/work stations. Secondly, the teacher should spend some time posting, teaching, reviewing, monitoring as well as reinforcing classroom expectations. Students should know the goals and objective at the beginning of any class which was not evident in this video. It would also help to increase student engagement through more small group discussions and formative assessments during instruction since many of the students were learning material that they didn’t understand before class started. The did engage students in a review of the concept at the end of the lesson, but often times waiting to the end to identify students’ understanding of a lesson can create issues as there is no time to go back and find where the student is having trouble. Finally, the teacher should incorporate more strategies used to reinforce appropriate behavior and to respond to inappropriate behavior. In the video the lesson required to actively listening without talking, maintaining eye contact with the speaker, as well as keeping their feet and hands still. Though the teacher acknowledges when a student wasn’t