Focused Observation #2
Entry C: Identify the content and language objectives. Then identify the number of opportunities a specific EL student had to achieve them during a lesson.
Description: For this observation, I observed my third grade Cleveland partner during a lesson that Kayla Borges-Vaz taught. He had the opportunity to use various watercolor paints to develop a better understanding of how different colors mix with each other.
Reflection: Through my observation, I learned that it is essential for teachers to spend amble time helping EL’s learn vocabulary words before using such words in a lesson. During the lesson, many of the words that were used (e.x: predict) by the teacher were too difficult for my student to understand. He …show more content…
Reflect on what you learned about student engagement and instruction.
Description: I observed 22 sixth grade students (three of them are EL) at Larsen Elementary School on November 16th. During my observation, the students were participating in a writing lesson regarding editing, topic sentences and paragraph structure.
Reflection: After looking over my observations, I was able to see that the EL students in Mrs. Bartlam’s class were engaged the majority of the lesson. Upon reflection, I hypothesized that the students may be acting in this way because they are fearful of participation or interacting with mainstream students. None of the three EL students’ in the class are seated together. I believe it is a strong possibility that these students do not want to come off as sounding stupid or uninformed to the teacher nor their fellow classmates so they choose to not speak or engage. This observation taught me that I will need to make a conscious effort to make sure there is extra classroom support (given by other students) for EL students. I will be able to accomplish this by seating them near other EL’s and sitting them closer to the front of the
Entry C: Identify the content and language objectives. Then identify the number of opportunities a specific EL student had to achieve them during a lesson.
Description: For this observation, I observed my third grade Cleveland partner during a lesson that Kayla Borges-Vaz taught. He had the opportunity to use various watercolor paints to develop a better understanding of how different colors mix with each other.
Reflection: Through my observation, I learned that it is essential for teachers to spend amble time helping EL’s learn vocabulary words before using such words in a lesson. During the lesson, many of the words that were used (e.x: predict) by the teacher were too difficult for my student to understand. He …show more content…
Reflect on what you learned about student engagement and instruction.
Description: I observed 22 sixth grade students (three of them are EL) at Larsen Elementary School on November 16th. During my observation, the students were participating in a writing lesson regarding editing, topic sentences and paragraph structure.
Reflection: After looking over my observations, I was able to see that the EL students in Mrs. Bartlam’s class were engaged the majority of the lesson. Upon reflection, I hypothesized that the students may be acting in this way because they are fearful of participation or interacting with mainstream students. None of the three EL students’ in the class are seated together. I believe it is a strong possibility that these students do not want to come off as sounding stupid or uninformed to the teacher nor their fellow classmates so they choose to not speak or engage. This observation taught me that I will need to make a conscious effort to make sure there is extra classroom support (given by other students) for EL students. I will be able to accomplish this by seating them near other EL’s and sitting them closer to the front of the