Teacher Observation Paper

The teachers I was fortunate to work with were all very different from each other, of the four I worked with at were different grade levels and had different years of experience. They were all math teaching in middle school, the first I met with was Ms. Hall a seventh grade teacher in her second year of teaching, the second was Ms. Ambriz a sixth grade teacher with twelve years of experience on that same day I also visit Ms. Martinez eighth grade with more years than Ms. Ambriz and finally Mr. Bravo who was also a sixth grade teacher on his first year of teaching. When observing I was able to see all of them conducting various types of activities from reviews, group work, individual work and to the teacher teaching as a result I was also …show more content…
They all had different approaches of dealing with their students, Ms. Hall had the best overall result with managing her class, but Mr. Bravo seemed to have the most difficulty of handling students. His method was pretty sloppy, for example a student was being too loud so the student first received a warning, the student was asked to move from the rest of the group to a separate lone desk in a corner but the student didn’t he would therefore he began to count down from five than walked away. One of the students made remake about the punishment that Mr. Bravo did to him when the student didn’t follow directions and that when the girl finally decided to move, Mr. Bravo later told me that he either makes gives detention, contacts parents or writes a referral. In Ms. Hall’s classroom, there was a small rectangular poster divide into four levels, when I had a chance to ask her about it she let me know it was a noise level chart. She admitted that the noise level chart was very elementary but still very effective with her students. The bottom level was no talking when testing and individual work, the second level whisper for instructional work or students presenting a project, the third was for partner and team work so the students can collaborate in their normal voice and the top was loud for debates where the whole class gets involved. She reinforced noise level chart by punishing the class as a whole which would vary from a homework to a zero as a class grade. This goes to show how much a teacher can learn from their first year to their second, Mr. Bravo should make his rules on discipline clearer like Ms. Hall who most likely learned that from her first