Observation Report
William Loesche Elementary is an exceptional school for what I have seen thus far. The community as a whole is warm and welcoming. I was pleasantly surprised when I met my cooperating teacher. She greeted my partner and I with a smile and told us a little bit about her self. I was instantly intrigued when Mrs. Timber told us that she was a Temple University graduate because I felt like I could quickly relate to her. Mrs. Timber told us about her prior experiences and the many up’s and downs she has had. For instance, the last school she worked in was about to lay her off until she stumbled upon Loasche and fell in love with it, she has been there and teaching third grade for the past three years. Mrs. Trimber’s class is …show more content…
Trimber teaching style. The objectives are always written on the blackboard and she refers to them before every lesson and had the children read them aloud. Students are seated in-group tables, table 1, 2, 3, and 4. Majority of the in-class work is completed together by their group tables, “ I like the way the kids bounce ideas of each other” Mrs. Trimber explained. For example, they did a main idea lesson where the teacher passed out four different bags for each table. In the bags there were different materials, such as a bag full of materials used to make a cake, a bag full of items to mail a letter, a bag full of things needed to have a movie night at home, and a bag that had items needed to help a head cold. Students were instructed to work together, observe the materials in the bag, and come up with the main idea based on the materials in the bag. The students loved this activity and I appreciated the incorporation of many of the temple standards such as critical and creative thinking, Mrs. Trimber also incorporates coherence and continuity and real world connections in her lessons by relating all of her subjects to each other in some way. For example, she had the class as a whole create a bar and tally graph about if they thought bats were cute or creepy before a literacy lesson. Mrs. Trimber also incorporates deep content and understanding and active learning in her lesson by teaching in a variety of ways. For example, during a math lesson she had the students get up to act as a number line so the kids could see it in a different
William Loesche Elementary is an exceptional school for what I have seen thus far. The community as a whole is warm and welcoming. I was pleasantly surprised when I met my cooperating teacher. She greeted my partner and I with a smile and told us a little bit about her self. I was instantly intrigued when Mrs. Timber told us that she was a Temple University graduate because I felt like I could quickly relate to her. Mrs. Timber told us about her prior experiences and the many up’s and downs she has had. For instance, the last school she worked in was about to lay her off until she stumbled upon Loasche and fell in love with it, she has been there and teaching third grade for the past three years. Mrs. Trimber’s class is …show more content…
Trimber teaching style. The objectives are always written on the blackboard and she refers to them before every lesson and had the children read them aloud. Students are seated in-group tables, table 1, 2, 3, and 4. Majority of the in-class work is completed together by their group tables, “ I like the way the kids bounce ideas of each other” Mrs. Trimber explained. For example, they did a main idea lesson where the teacher passed out four different bags for each table. In the bags there were different materials, such as a bag full of materials used to make a cake, a bag full of items to mail a letter, a bag full of things needed to have a movie night at home, and a bag that had items needed to help a head cold. Students were instructed to work together, observe the materials in the bag, and come up with the main idea based on the materials in the bag. The students loved this activity and I appreciated the incorporation of many of the temple standards such as critical and creative thinking, Mrs. Trimber also incorporates coherence and continuity and real world connections in her lessons by relating all of her subjects to each other in some way. For example, she had the class as a whole create a bar and tally graph about if they thought bats were cute or creepy before a literacy lesson. Mrs. Trimber also incorporates deep content and understanding and active learning in her lesson by teaching in a variety of ways. For example, during a math lesson she had the students get up to act as a number line so the kids could see it in a different