Reading Comprehension: According to assessment data, teacher observations and reporting, Chris strengths in reading is his fluency, decoding, capabilities of identifying main event from a “short” narrative text, can answers most “wh” questions about narrative text at grade-level. Chris's poor reading comprehension skills have caused him to struggle with classroom assignments. He doesn’t stay on task when reading is required in the classroom especial with lengthy passages/text at grade level or text that is not a preferred interest. He can avoids reading classroom directions, which has caused him to complete worksheets and assignments incorrectly, with careless errors and fall well behind his peers in the classroom.…
Keyshawn is currently attending Churchland High School full time as an 11th grader. Keyshawn is currently taking regular education classes and does not have any educational disabilities. Keyshawn's performance at school is poor, and he is failing his classes. Keyshawn's general attitude toward education is positive; he believes there is a definite benefit to his education and believes the school environment is encouraging and supportive. In the last three months, Keyshawn has attended school regularly and there have been no behavioral interventions.…
Teacher feedback is a critical in increasing student success. All students including those with emotional and behavioral disorders should receive teacher feedback for task that they are doing. All students may have difficulty with completing tasks, organizing their materials, or transitioning to the next lesson. Therefore after instruction, to help guide the students effectively, the teacher should use lesson summaries, checklists, organizers, and exit slips. Signals may also be useful for students during this time.…
Some remedies for Nathans situation include Ritalin and home schooling, which did assist him in his academic performance. As a diagnosis from Dr. Mel Levine, Nathan’s learning difficulty is a result of an output problem. Question 2: Discuss each of the parents of the students in terms of how you as a learning specialist would have advised them and worked with…
Observation is an important part of learning how to teach. Classroom observation presents an opportunity to learn and see real-life teaching situations that we will not learn from books. The purpose of this paper is to observe a child having typical development to practice the guidance strategies and how can we use the DAP child guidance and discipline in making change in the child environment. I observed Sakai a 2.5 year old child and how he deal with others in aggression way. Through this course chapters I learned how to analyze and understand the way of the class’ environment affects the child physically, socially and cognitively.…
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,…
I want to start my reflection by giving some background information on my student. John has difficulty in each of the five assessment domains cognitive, motor, communication, adaptive behavior, and social emotional. John is in the 8th grade at Greene County Tech, he receives special services under the diagnosis of Specific Learning Disability with ADHD. John is a student in my English and math resource classes. During the first nine weeks of the school year, I observed John having difficulty in English and math with one or more of the following; comprehension, order of operation, classmates, and following classroom rules.…
The name of the center that I have chosen was Omaha Early Learning Community (OELC) located as of now in Skinner Magnet School, in Omaha, Nebraska. The ages of children in the room are from sixteen months to twenty-two months old. I (Kellee R. Smith) am the Lead Teacher and I have a one Teacher Assistant and one Aide who has had little experience with toddlers and infants. ____ Part 1: Classroom observation: What score did you assign FOR EACH Item and why?…
Methodology. The following reports the development of data collected for a specific student observed over a months’ period time. This case study displays problem behaviors that are challenging in the classroom and affecting academic progress during his kindergarten year. This writer will document background information, family setting, and behaviors in the classroom setting as well as a plan for behavioral intervention. The student selected for this study is a Hispanic 5-year-old boy born in New York City named “Juan.”…
Throughout the semester, I have been working with Jake: a delightful and driven third grade boy at Osceola Elementary School. He has remedial reading problems, for which I am there to help him work through. For this second case study, I administered additional reading assessments to Jake in order to gain further evidence for his instructional needs. The first test I administered to Jake was the Informal Reading Inventory.…
Response to Intervention is an approach for differentiating instruction to help students who struggle in learning, in general, and get them to grade level. It is separated into three Tiers to separate student’s abilities so that the teacher is capable of accommodating her student's needs. Tier 1 focuses on developing the students reading abilities and preventing learning problems. Tier 2 focuses on struggling readers and extending the instruction to help the students reach grade level as soon as possible. Tier 3 is referred to as more intense instruction, and depending on the child’s improvement, it may result in the diagnosis of a reading disability.…
I’m currently observing a middle school in XXXXXX County. The school is very diverse, compared with other schools. The school is not to big or too small. The Spanish class consists of a total of 20 to 30 students each period. There is a total of 6 students placed in one group.…
On my first day of observing Mrs. Albita’s 4th grade classroom, I first noticed how she selected the student that would write the objective for the day. Mrs. Alba has a jar with popsicle sticks that contain the names of all the students in her class. She selects one stick and that student is responsible for writing the class objective correctly. First the student has to listen to the teacher carefully. Next, the student writes down what he/she heard.…
I can empathize with teachers who say that the observation and evaluation process does not seem reciprocal in nature. Most of my follow-up evaluations have either been waived or conducted in five minutes or less in which the principal hits upon the highlights of my observation. Very few teaching lessons have been learned through these interactions. In her article though, Shelly Arneson includes sound practices that can be implemented to alleviate many of the concerns of the evaluation process. Her basic premise is to shift the dialogue from inspection-based conversation to a reflection-based conversation.…
Being able to go out and observe in a classroom is something that makes me so excited to be a teacher in the future. I was able to observe a classroom and learn many techniques to encourage learning. On October 11 I went to Discovery Elementary School to observe in Mrs. Hibma’s classroom. This was a 3rd grade classroom, and this interested me because I would love to teach 3rd grade. There were 27 students in the classroom, which I found to be a large classroom.…