Mrs. Carey provided detailed instructions on how to do the class work. The educator had the kids draw a picture of what they did over the weekend (this was an every Monday routine). Now, while this was taking place one student’s was busy removing his shoe laces completely out of his shoes. Mrs. Carey had to ask the teacher’s assistant to help with re-lacing his shoes. During conducting their school work Mrs. Carey also had a saying that she would say to the children to get their attention “eyes on me 1, 2, 3” then the children would say back to her “eyes on you 1, 2, …show more content…
Carey’s class, the environment made me feel comfortable and welcome. All adults were respectful to each other including to the students and the children were respectful back to the adults. There was no signs of favoritism, carelessness or prejudice. Everyone seemed caring and excited to be in the classroom. I do believe the class staff could have worked better together, the student teacher and assistant teacher need to be more aware of what is taking place within the classroom and help out Mrs. Carey more than they do. It has only been two weeks since school started, so maybe that is playing a role. It still has that community feeling in the classroom at this moment. I am assuming as the school year plays out everyone will warm up more to each other to give it more of a family feeling. The only downfall I have seen was that the children didn’t have too much freedom or choices. For the 3 ½ hours I was there the students were on a very strict structured schedule which you could see it puts stress on the teacher and students. The children had to be continually told to their classwork and once they completed their work, Mrs. Carey kept them busy with