Leah Mueller traces her interest in singing back to fourth grade, when she started taking voice lessons. That same year, Mueller was a student at Boalsburg Elementary in David Rockower’s class. Today, she and Rockower are colleagues at Delta Middle School, where Mueller teaches music and theatre. Unlike most schools, including those within the district, Delta Middle offers a curricular theatre program. “We are very fortunate,” said Mueller.…
For session 2, we did a basic facts assessment over number recognition with our client (flash cards). We decided to do the basic facts assessment over number recognition because that is the prerequisite for addition/subtraction and that is what our client currently learning about. Our client did really well with the basic facts, so for the next session we decided to move onto addition and subtraction. Session 3 is where we finally discovered some gaps that our client has. She had some trouble with subtraction: single/double digit and word problems.…
The class began Math with a “Math Mountain” in which students have set problems to solve on the screen and students solve a new set every day. Mrs. Torrent had a lot of manipulatives on hand in which helped students visually comprehend what was going on. Students were encouraged to work with one another in content as they shard some of these manipulatives and students looked engaged and entertained with this. At the end of the math section, the students did 15 minutes of math centers in where students worked together in stations on certain things. One station had addition while another station had fractions.…
On Monday February 22, 2016 Mrs. Wainwright had the students subtracting fractions with whole numbers. The problems had the same denominator, for example, 7 wholes and 3/10 subtract 2 wholes and 1/10. She would put a problem on the board, and when the students were done she would check them. The students are in groups, like Monday, Tuesday,etc, so if all the students on the same row got the answer right she would give their group points.…
In this process, the student first solves the problem and verbalizes the processes used, then writes he step-by-step process and identifies it on the model.” (Miles and Forchs, p. 6). While the teacher is helping the student along, he or she can monitor what areas the student might be struggling with. If the teacher is instructing a large classroom, this strategy might be better done in small groups. There is considerable evidence to indicate a that verbalizing upper level math problems has a pos6itive impact.…
This is an example of how math in this classroom is a subject that was overlearned. Overlearning helps students develop automated basic skills.…
For this observation I observed a second grade classroom at Farmdale Elementary. When I walked into the class they all stopped and waited quietly until the teacher introduced me. Once the teacher introduced me they all greeted me with “Good Morning, Mrs. Tatiana.” I felt the teacher had good classroom management that brought good manners. The class started with reciting Martin Luther king’s speech, she called a couple students to recite it alone.…
Throughout my observation time spent at Reese Elementary, I have had the opportunity to observe two teachers, Mrs. Church, who is a second-grade teacher, and Mr. Dohrmann, who is a fifth-grade teacher. The teachers teach different grade levels and have very different teaching styles which lead to differences in classroom management and assessment, as well as, other categories. Even though there are many differences between Mrs. Church and Mr. Dohrmann they also have many similarities, such as the way they handle discipline and motivation. During my observation hours in both classrooms, I noticed the classroom management procedures that both teachers use. Both teachers have a class schedule they go by to keep the students and themselves on task throughout the day.…
From the moment Mrs. Grier’s preschool room is entered on February 19th the theme is evident. The reading nook is filled with presidential books (some borrowed from the library), the math center is money themed and the walls are adorned with Abraham Lincoln wall cabins. Students file in as normal, moving their pictures from the “home” board to the “school” board, putting away their belongings, and then sitting down for breakfast. When the timer rings and their spaces are cleared they meet at the rug for circle time. A ballot box is brought out-…
Florida Educator Accomplished practice ensures teacher’s adherer to high expectations and professionalism. The professional teacher must include effective assessments, communication, critical thinking opportunities, consider diversity among students, teaching ethics, student development, positive learning environment, purposeful planning, and enriched technology experiences. The role of the teacher is to facilitate effective instruction; which includes continually improving their instruction, increasing their knowledge of subject matter, and planning effective lesson for all students in their class. The lesson plan, combination multiplication problem solving strategies, meets FEAP 1, because it provides different assessment opportunities to ensure students are understanding the whole-class instruction and can use problem solving strategies to solve multiplication combination problems.…
My observation of Ms. de la Fuente’s 5th grade class this week started after lunch during their math time. On Wednesday, their schedule had been different from normal and there was two other teachers in the classroom teaching them about different types of rocks. On Thursday, a sixth grade math teacher came to the classroom to further explain what they had been learning about conversions, and to tell them about what they would learn next year when they went to sixth grade.. During arrival in the morning and dismissal in the afternoon, the same routine is followed on almost all days. In the morning, the students go wait in the gym and are picked up by the teacher when the first bell rings.…
Discussion As outlined previously, there were 3 domains from the CLASS use to conduct observations on a teacher and children in a preschool classroom. The 3 domains used to conduct the observations are Emotional support, Classroom organization, and Instructional Support. The Pre-K CLASS has 10 dimensions that are scored on a 7 point scale, from low to high with a score of 1 and 2 consider being in the low range; 3, 4, and 5 are mid-range; and 6 and 7 are a high range. In general, the quality of the classroom was very positive, in the middle-high ranges. As you can see from Table 1, there were multiple scores of 5 and 6 such as in the positive climate, teacher sensitivity, regard for student perspectives, behavior management, productivity,…
Ana Rodríguez Jennifer Anderson Math for Elementary Teachers I June 6, 2018 Journal # 3- “An Eastern Approach to Problem Solving.” Just like most people when struggling with a problem my first instinct is to step away from the problem.…
SEP #4 In my observation of a Kindergarten class, there were many different teaching methods used. The teacher used many visual aids, and example would be when she asked the students to draw a pig. She displayed a pig on the board that was drawn by a guest speaker, and the students were asked to replicate the drawing. The teacher I observed also used games to enhance the student’s learning.…
Throughout the course of my five days at the SAHETI primary school, I found myself astonished at various activities that are done throughout the day. Through the course of my practical, I was given a Grade two class to observe and I unquestionably discovered a recently developed love for that age group. I was always adamant from the first time I knew I wanted to become a teacher that I wanted to teach Grade one’s, but my thoughts have definitely evolved. During the course of my observing I was more than willing to help with various activities such as marking, doing spelling tests with the children, as well as helping them with any difficulties they were having with their work. I have gained a lot of experience after helping out with the activities and my knowledge for teaching has grown immensely.…