While completing my walkthroughs for CED 100, I discovered many things about education and teaching that helped me on finalizing my decision to teach Middle School History. After completing all four hours in lower elementary education, upper elementary education, middle school education, and high school education, I had a very good understanding of how classes were conducted and how students from different age groups react to different forms of teaching.
My first encounter in a classroom, at Model, was with Mrs. Noland’s lower elementary classroom. When I walked in, my first thought was, “chaos.” Students were doing different things in different groups. The children were very talkative and were up, moving around. I didn’t see any organization at first, but after I observed the way she was conducting class it made more sense. The students who were more talkative and had more energy were up, doing more active things, such as activities on the iPad or interactive sheets. Student’s who could learn by lecture were sitting quietly in their seat and listen to what the teacher would teach. The teacher knew how every student learned and knew how to assess each student. She was very organized in a chaotic …show more content…
Kendricks’ middle school classroom. She was an English teacher. Before coming into the classroom, I figured that students would be rowdy and she would have disciplinary issues. This hypothesis was based on my experience in the past when I was in middle school. When I entered the classroom I saw that students acted extremely respectful to the teacher. She was going over a worksheet with students about the lesson. She would call on different students and when they would get the answer wrong she would always say something positive back like, “that is a good guess.” I had an overall good observation for this course because everything was very straight forward and not difficult to see. If a student had trouble she would explain it right,
My first encounter in a classroom, at Model, was with Mrs. Noland’s lower elementary classroom. When I walked in, my first thought was, “chaos.” Students were doing different things in different groups. The children were very talkative and were up, moving around. I didn’t see any organization at first, but after I observed the way she was conducting class it made more sense. The students who were more talkative and had more energy were up, doing more active things, such as activities on the iPad or interactive sheets. Student’s who could learn by lecture were sitting quietly in their seat and listen to what the teacher would teach. The teacher knew how every student learned and knew how to assess each student. She was very organized in a chaotic …show more content…
Kendricks’ middle school classroom. She was an English teacher. Before coming into the classroom, I figured that students would be rowdy and she would have disciplinary issues. This hypothesis was based on my experience in the past when I was in middle school. When I entered the classroom I saw that students acted extremely respectful to the teacher. She was going over a worksheet with students about the lesson. She would call on different students and when they would get the answer wrong she would always say something positive back like, “that is a good guess.” I had an overall good observation for this course because everything was very straight forward and not difficult to see. If a student had trouble she would explain it right,