Classroom Assessment Essay

on the crossword. I have done to 5 minutes about missing left to the square in a grid are skip answer with multiplication. I made sure to check their finished homework from class then changed scats. Same as before, I enjoyed observing students in classroom. I saw the teacher do activities for teaching vocabulary words and math. My students asked how I learned sign language and I said “In the 1st grade in Egly Elementary school they wanted to teach us how to use vocabulary words in American Sign…

“Why Laptops in Class Are Distracting America’s Future Workforce” was written by Timothy D. Snyder in 2010. His purpose in writing this article was to persuade professors against having laptops in the classroom because he feels they are a distraction. The arguments Snyder uses against laptops in classrooms are, they distract students’ attention, students miss out of the best part of American life, and he generalizes that this lack of attention will spill over into the workplace. Snyder discusses…

One of the classrooms that I observed was a fifth grade class at Mt. Hall Elementary school. The class is comprised of 21 students who are spread out between six tables, with three to four students per table. When you first walk into the classroom you are greeted by a wall of self-portraits of the students. One wall is dedicated to math. Posters about math rules and concepts along with student created math concept posters align the wall. Another wall is dedicated to language arts. Grammar and…

The story The Freedom Writers follows the story of an English class lead by a teacher called Ms.Gruwell. The book follows the lives of the students in her class by their diary entries Ms.Gruwell allows them to do. The book takes us through relationships each student has with drugs, gangs, race and problems with their families at home. The book gives talks about the journey of at the class all way through the junior year when they wrote the book. The Freedom Writers story is also told with a…

Classroom arrangement is a crucial part in having an effective classroom management. A classroom arrangement allows the teacher to observe, walk around, and help their students throughout the day in the classroom. Having an inefficient classroom arrangement allows time for students to become off task, disruptive, and to get up from their seats to wander around the classroom. Creating a layout that is efficient and easy to move around in allows students to learn, and participate more effectively.…

A. Promoting Student Self-Awareness. To my understanding of the scenario one, the evidence from Vignette 1 shows that Mr. Fowler is trying to promote self-awareness with Sasha. Mr. Fowler has met with Sasha’s parent many times, and I believe his meeting with Sasha’s parent is to discourse her performance at school. Mr. Fowler has also positioned Sasha’s desk near his work station, Mr. Fowler positioned Sasha’s desk near his work station so he can be able to monitor her activity closely and…

also posted her classroom rules visible for students to see. So my first day observation the students all came in and once thy came in she told them to pull out their bell ringer assignments and waited for class to get started. The announcements…

The espousal of multicultural learning and the seating arrangement of the classroom truly helps to facilitate the diversity in the friendship and interpersonal relationships in Ms. Bunker’s class. The students engage in play and discussion amongst each other in an easy-going, non-hierarchal manner. Moreover, the students worked/played together without nullifying their cultural/ethnic and gender differences – but while embracing them and working well together in spite of them. I did not see…

A Guide to Classroom Gamification Games have become an essential part in the EL classrooms. Many teachers tend to use games either to introduce the lesson, practice a piece of grammar, revise vocabularies, or even as energizers. Hence, the term gam-ifi-cation might be confused with the use of different games inside a classroom. Gamification, as defined by Claudia Pesce, "is the use of game elements and game design techniques in non-game context” ( Claudia Pesce, para. 2, n.d) In this article, I…

A cheerleader is a person who leads spectators in traditional or formal cheering, especially at a pep rally or athletic event. That might be the formal definition of a cheerleader but what is a cheerleader to society? Cheerleaders are stereotyped in many ways, and most of the ways have a negative light. I can honestly say by being a cheerleader more relationships have been created for me, and I have been created into a more friendly person with a lot of character. I am like other people…