Reflection Paper On Observation Of A Teacher

Field Observation Reflection Paper Observing teachers as they implement instructional processes in the classroom is a significant way to learn how they effectively manage, educate, engage, and motivate a diverse group of learners. As a candidate, a teacher’s job may not appear to be demanding. On the contrary, teaching is a challenging job that requires organization, patience, and determination. Each classroom consists of its own group of diverse students whose level of knowledge vary on the subject matter being taught and how they comprehend the material. Teachers must be capable of meeting each child’s specific learning needs. It is important for teachers to establish rules, follow a routine, and form positive relationships with their students …show more content…
However, of the four classrooms observed three of them engaged in co-teaching. Co-teaching is beneficial with supporting one another professionally since each teacher contributes their own experiences and knowledge base when working with students from diverse backgrounds. Of course, co-teaching is not as common in a typical classroom which is why it is important for general education teachers to collaborate with parents, teachers, professionals, and administration to support the needs of their students. I also realized how the students genuinely respected their teachers and positively formed a connection with each of them. The exchanges between students and teachers are essential to the teacher-student relationship. I found the interactions among teachers and students to be important and satisfying since each of the teachers observed demonstrated interest in the students’ personal lives about their families or various other …show more content…
Although the curriculum for this grade level is not as rigid, one student of Asian descent demonstrated the ability to copy text appropriately onto his own sheet of paper completing this task on his own. Typically, children at this age are still learning how to properly hold and use a pencil, color inside the lines, recognize shapes, colors, and letters. His teacher informed me that the student’s mom would like her son to expand his reading skills. In this same classroom, there was a student that was dropped off at school with no shoes, small fitting, soiled clothes. When the student arrived the teacher’s aide retrieved a pair of shoes from the dramatic play area and put them on the student. The young student thanked the teacher and joined her classmates. This small, kind gesture demonstrated the compassion has for her students. It also made me feel appreciative to have teachers’ exhibit consideration of across all areas to their