Describe The Diversity Of The Classroom

Teachers are versatile, not only in subject but in job requirements. Over the course of my fifteen plus hours of observing I found one thing that stuck out most often each day, a teacher’s job is of course to teach, but also learn each day. The degree only will take a teacher so far, educational classes teach the basics, and provided the guidelines to help students turn into teachers, but it is not matter of hours or training that makes a teacher great, it is the ability to adopt. Again, not to just subject matter, or every changing state requirements, or even the administration 's own rules. The adaptation that is most profoundly important is how a teacher communicates with each student. The book teaches the perfect and ideal conditions, with …show more content…
I Also saw in fourth period a student who seem to have some type of disorder, as he had trouble reading and staying quiet throughout the class, the teacher I was with at the time also told me that he needs a bit more attention. Now, although I was not in an ESE room I do recall that in elementary school a student with a disability had to meet with a counselor every week to help gage whether or not a student is on track with the lesson plan the teacher is teaching. Understanding the diversity of a classroom is important, as every teacher should understand that each student learns different. If a student is ELL or ESE or perhaps just a normal student the facts are simple, everything thinks differently, and needs to be taken into consideration for classroom mangagement and lesson plan creation. As stated on the TeacherFirst website, top ten tips for teaching ESE and ELL students “becoming familiar with ESL websites can be a great resource”. I actually say this goes a step forward, I feel as though a teacher should truly understand what it means to be a student with a learning handicap, this way when the student presents them with a question or problem the teacher better understands that the student may really not understand a concept, which could help other student understand if the teacher were to go a bit more indepth for some answers. For example, the classroom I observed that …show more content…
The most common teaching strategy I observed with my time in the class was a presentation or almost lector like style, where the teach taught from slides and answered questions accordingly. However, this is also becuase the days I was at the school happened to be when the lesson plan called for a paper to be written, meaning it is not really about teaching but rather just giving instructions for the students to demonstrate their mastery of the previous week 's research or work. Other teaching strategies I saw employed were one on one tactics, such as when the teacher would help just one student or a small group instead of the whole class. For overall classroom management I saw only a few tactics employed; the class I attended was a 9th grade English honors class, and the teacher I was with had said most of the students throughout the day were not normally very rambunctious. So, sadly, the only classroom management I saw was just subtle words of the teacher telling them to stay on track when talking got a bit off topic. The teacher I was observing did ask me if I wanted to see how a regular, non-honors class behaves, knowing that one of my questions to answer was classroom management, I accepted this offer and sat in on another class. From what I say, the normal population of students are not necessarily