Walking around the classroom, conducted class polls, specific examples when asking questions along with showing and asking for explanation on cartoons, visual aids such as powerpoints, correcting homework in class which helped the students learn the real answer. One of the best techniques I saw was working on packets together which would really help me because I like hands on learning.
Dispenser of supplies, and giving special privileges was all I really noticed. The school I was at supplied bells for the classrooms. I would like to do all of these because I am so ready to just run a classroom where I control the environment completely.
Yes, the material was engaging and his lecture took place without note …show more content…
I did spot certain students that did contribute to the group more often than others. Sometimes though the students who tend to answer every question are the ones who take away from the real learning of the class. As a teacher I would make sure every student got a chance to make their voice heard.
4. He really treated everyone equal. He asked the same tough questions to the diverse learners, and this helped them feel in touch with the rest of the class. I really found no differentiation.
5. The teacher gave frequent quizzes, and asked a lot of question to the students to make sure they were not only paying attention, but learning also.
Classroom Management
This was a high school classroom. Even though I did not witness rule breaking often most of the time if it was severe they were sent to the office.
3. He used a lot of questions that were real world based. This helped start the conversation because it was so relatable to the students.
5. No, but there are school wide rules. This did definitely help the classroom management because the rules are the same across the entire school, which makes it less confusing.
Ethical and Local Issues
One example was of a foreign exchange student that was in my class. She could speak and hear English well, but not read it. The teacher helped her on tests and quizzes with …show more content…
One of the major things I noticed observing my school, in the matters of actually being in the school was that our school really has a lot of different personalities. What I found with the students in the Government class that I observed is that they were all very well behaved, mostly due to the connection to the election upcoming. This drew a real world situation into the actual lesson almost on a daily basis. In the Psychology class I observed though it was a different story. I honestly do not feel like the students were nearly as interested as the students in government, and I believe it is because Psychology lessons are hard to design around real world scenarios on a constant