On October 2nd and 9th, I went to the Northampton elementary school in the Klein ISD district from 8:30 – 2:30 to go observe some of the teachers. Both days I had 3 separate classrooms. My split amount of time each classroom consisted of an hour and 30 minutes in each class. I observed majority of the daily routine the teachers went through. During my time I was able to see each subject being taught and a variety of ages being taught. I observed first, third, fourth, and fifth grade. I noticed that all the teachers were very interactive and outgoing. Every teacher had their own different personality, they added their own flare to the classroom rules. A couple of my teachers had this sort of game that helped with conduct, it was call economy.
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They had rewards like no shoe day, sit in the big comfy chair, etc. I noticed that it helped really well with classroom management and kids also learned the value of money. The classroom management was very focused on with the teachers. The teachers were always attentive and maintained flexibility. All the teachers had kids entering the classroom and getting to work on their activities. Kids who would finish their activity early, they were able to go to stations. The stations teachers had set up where all focused on a certain subject, like English was sentence shuffle, math was cubes, and social studies was learn the continents. Even without the stations teachers had a variety of things to switch to and I noticed there was a lot of visual contents around to help the children. Teachers did not only attended to visual learners they used different styles to help other style learners comprehend the subject. Example for auditory learners there was a lot of repetition used within their learning. I also know that with their repetition there was a certain wait time during questions to give the children time to process. They would use different tools like that to help the kids break down
They had rewards like no shoe day, sit in the big comfy chair, etc. I noticed that it helped really well with classroom management and kids also learned the value of money. The classroom management was very focused on with the teachers. The teachers were always attentive and maintained flexibility. All the teachers had kids entering the classroom and getting to work on their activities. Kids who would finish their activity early, they were able to go to stations. The stations teachers had set up where all focused on a certain subject, like English was sentence shuffle, math was cubes, and social studies was learn the continents. Even without the stations teachers had a variety of things to switch to and I noticed there was a lot of visual contents around to help the children. Teachers did not only attended to visual learners they used different styles to help other style learners comprehend the subject. Example for auditory learners there was a lot of repetition used within their learning. I also know that with their repetition there was a certain wait time during questions to give the children time to process. They would use different tools like that to help the kids break down