Mt. Stuart Elementary Classroom Observation

On Friday May 13 I was able to observe two P.E. classes at Mt. Stuart Elementary. There were two sections which I observed, first group was a 1st grade class and then a kindergarten class. It was a very cool experience, since I don’t remember P.E. classes back when I was young. One thing I enjoyed was the teacher’s enthusiasm when the students walked into the gym. He welcomed each student with a smile and with excitement. The students just came from class and was almost done with their day, but he was able to get them excited to do the activities he had planned for the day. This is an important part of being a teacher, whether it is P.E. class or an English class you have to show excitement in order for your student to become excited. Another characteristic that I liked was the activities he allowed the students to do. The activities reminded me of what I wanted to do for my lesson for our class. The student lesson was …show more content…
Although he was able to transition each group of students from section to section smoothly, there was a little chaos during the activity time. During the activities, he could only keep his eyes on one group at a time, which is not his fault, but I think he could have created a way in which he was able to watch each group. There were many students not doing the activity correctly or just sitting around. I do not blame him because there was so little time for each class, that he has to have each group at a different section or else the student would not be able to perform every activity. I feel an effective way was to make bigger groups. Also, at time there would be students who would get hurt or he would have to tie a student’s show lace, that there would not be anyone watching the students, so this was a mall problem. Most of the student behaved themselves, but I feel something may have happened while he was not paying full attention to what was going