Chaperon Elementary School Classroom Observation

Context For my observation, I was in Mrs. Scott’s third grade classroom at Parkway Elementary School. The school has a good mix of students from all different backgrounds. Parkway Elementary is encouraging to its students and faculty. There are posters hanging up throughout the entire school of various accomplishments. The school also fosters a sense of community between the different grades. There is a program run through the guidance counselor that pairs an older student with a younger student as “buddies”. This encourages the older student to be a role model and also makes a connection between the grades.
The entire third grade is located down one hallway. There are also rooms for reading specialists down that hall, but no other grades are located on this hall. None of the classrooms have actual doors. There is a large doorway into each classroom and hooks outside the classroom for the students’ backpacks and jackets. When looking down the hall, …show more content…
Scott spend on any category was personal interaction. Over half of her time spent was on personal interaction. Breaking this category down even more, about 18% of the time was used talking to each student about which chaperone they had and giving them a sticky note with the spelling of that chaperone’s name. The rest of the time was used working one on one with students or speaking to students. Of that time, about 38% of it was used working with one specific student to help him write his letter. Though this was beneficial to the student being worked with, there was another student that also had her hand raised and Mrs. Scott did not go over to that student at all. Other students came up and asked questions and she addressed theirs, but the student in the back with her hand raised (which is a classroom rule if you have a question) sat there quietly and never got her question answered. When the class started to transition to the next activity she was clearly disappointed that she was never