Eagle School Classroom Observation

Eagle School is an intermediate school for third through fifth grade in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The area surrounding the school is urban with apartments, housing, and many businesses. Houses surrounding the school are close in proximity to one another. Through an interview with the school principal Mr. Mullenax, the majority of the students live in poverty and have parents with criminal backgrounds. The school is a title one school with free breakfast, lunch, and take home meals for the weekends. The students whose families struggle to feed them over the weekends, are given the opportunity to take meals home every Friday free of cost. Eagle School has a population of 713 students and are the most diverse school in Berkeley County. 52% …show more content…
Three of the students have behavioral issues while five of the students are always ahead and following classroom expectations. For the students who can follow the school and classroom expectations and stand out from the other students, they will receive a red rewards card. The reward cards are drawn on Thursdays for students to pick a prize from the school cabinet. For the students who need to be reminded of classroom and school expectations, anchor charts are posted all over the classroom and the hallways. The students are given one chance to fix any negative behavior they have or classroom expectation they are breaking. If the student continues to keep the negative behavior, they will clip down. For the students who clip down they have to correct the bad behavior in order to move the clip back up. For example, if a student is being disrespectful and talking over others and clip down, they will have to prove they can be respectful of others before they clip up. They cannot clip up for being the first one ready for the next subject. Also, if the students in the class can go an entire Monday through Friday without having a student end the day on any color lower than green they will have a reward