Classroom Observation Report Essay

Postings throughout the University are both symbolic of regulations and culture. Varying areas of the University have different rules around these positing that reflect subculture. Due to the numerous subcultures around campus, I chose to focus my observations in Vilas Hall. I visited the fifth floor of Vilas during the morning business hours. In particular, this floor has a combination of both faculty offices and research areas. When observing the atmosphere of the fifth floor, I came across…

Introduction Orangutans spend most of their lives high in the trees; they are seldom seen on the ground. Each night, they build a new nest or add to an old nest to support them while they are sleeping (Caldecott, 2005). Home ranges are typically between 5-25 km for males, and 1-10 km for females (Caldecott, 2005). As you can imagine, orangutans that live in captivity don’t have homes remotely close to those ranges. Not only is it smaller, their enclosures also lack forest canopies for them to…

This observation will focus on the child/child interactions of the Junior Preschool Room. This school is Pasadena City College Child Development Center and has students ages four-months-old to five-years-old. Within the Junior Preschool room, the teachers and assistant teachers there was Ms. Erika(assistant), Mr. Francisco(assistant), Ms. Nimfa, Mrs. Marisol (specialist teacher), Mrs. Erica(assistant), and Mrs. Oswald. During the time of the observation were 14 children in the classroom. The…

This observation was supposed to take place someplace outside of my comfort zone. Outside of my comfort zone would typically be any place outside of my home town Islip. I chose to make my observations at the West Islip Public Library which is ironically not as close as one would expect to be from Islip. To begin my observations, I parked my car in the parking lot and peered out my windows. In front of me was a black Chevy SUV. In the car I noticed there was a red bandana hanging from the rear…

when the teacher or others are speaking, constant questions or interruptions, and the creation of excessive noise by the student in the classroom. The number of times per week the subject is referred to the office during the first baseline should be recorded on the frequency chart. 2. The student will be observed three times a week for twenty minutes in the classroom during the same block of language arts time and results will be recorded on a frequency chart. 3. Figure the average number of…

I was thinking that observation is one of most important elements in teaching young children. Even if I knew that it is important, I did not know the methods and skills to observe the children. By spending time in the classroom every week doing observations helped me a lot to practice and gain the right skills to observe a child. I was able to catch more behaviors in children that I have not noticed before because I was more cautious and tried to see in details of children’s behaviors.…

The purpose of a child observation undertaking is to understand the human developmental process; to practice observational skills and to improve information-gathering technics as well as to illustrate the ability to analyze and apply learnt developmental theories. On Friday, 10/2/15, from 4pm to 5:45pm, a naturalistic observation method was utilized to observe a child for 60 minutes at her residence. Then the child’s mother was interviewed for 30 minutes. Goodwin and Goodwin (2012) defined…

which is considered a school. In the last court date that we had Alisha had brought paperwork from Child Time specifically stating that she was to pay tuition for Mckenzie Bazan. At that time it was the first that I had heard about this. She did not report the change nor did she talk it over as court order states that we should communicate with…

Psychologists prefer to use direct observation of behavior instead of psychological tests. Advantages: Observation can help round out research by offering a real-world aspect to a hypothesis. It offers a better description of behavior and is less hypothetical than other methods. Observation allows you to see how participants act together and separately. Do actions or decisions change in a group setting? Do people act differently when by themselves? Observation allows you to create and observe…

Live Observation Coding- January 25, 2018 The class we observed was Mr. Morris’s third grade class at Sunset Hill. The class was fairly small with a total of eighteen students. The PE class ran a total time of forty-five minutes. When the children walked in the room, I could already tell that Mr. Morris had an entry routine with specific expectation of class. I could tell that the kids’ attention was on us as guests and Mr. Morris addressed it at the beginning; however, after a while the kids…