Classroom management

well as videos. Throughout the dialogue we were required to take notes on three different senses dealing with the actions happening in the classroom. I decided to write down my observations on the senses sight, hearing and smell. One of the first things an individual notices are the details that one can see, including myself. When walking into the classroom, I first saw how it was set up. Drabkin was rearranging the desks into a horseshoe shape so that everyone would face…

The facial-feedback hypothesis states that whatever your facial expression is is what you are feeling, meaning that even if you are angry and you smile you will feel happy instead because of biofeedback from the facial muscles to the brain telling the brain what emotion to feel. However, people whose faces are paralyzed either permanently or temporarily can feel all the same emotions as before the paralysis occurred. Even those that are born with a condition that causes them to not be able to…

The first part of the original research I did was an open-ended survey for both the students and teacher with a pet in their classroom at an elementary school. Only one open-ended question was asked for the teacher. “Do you like having a pet in the classroom?” The teacher thought it was helpful for the class to have an animal to help care for, teaching responsibility as well as academic subjects. “The guinea pig helps the students with learning math, science, and even helps the shy kids read…

During childhood we were always instructed to sit straight. In my class (age 16) with 40 students, I noticed about 15 students slouched during a 45 minutes lecture, and towards the end about 22 were seen slouching. The students slouched for an average of 20 minutes in a lecture of 45 minutes. Contrarily, in middle school classes students (aged 13) slouch less, in a class of 30 students only 6-7 students slouched. The time for which they slouch was for about 5 minutes which is lesser in 16 year…

This “Mom’s Demand Action” advertisement is visually dreary and bleak - the dullness of color creates this effect. Ethos is present in this advertisement. “Moms Demand Action” is a campaign focused on securing gun reform to promote safety for all, particularly school-aged children. Therefore, this improves the visual’s credibility and effectiveness. Additionally, the font is appropriate and the organization's name and logo are positioned in the bottom right corner of the advertisement. As we…

Examine just for a moment an average sized classroom of twenty-eight or so students; they are fidgeting, squirming, a tad rambunctious, undoubtedly bored, and most likely not retaining anything. Their grade does not matter. These could be third graders practicing their cursive. Or perhaps they are eleventh graders paraphrasing Shakespearean literature. The problem still stands, they are wasting their time. Many people assume that this is strictly the student’s fault, others might suppose it to…

Looking around the classroom I see everyone pulling out their homework from last night. I reach into my backpack, grab my assignment, and set it on my desk. Checking it over everything looks complete and then I turn the paper over. My heart drops. The entire back page is incomplete. Scrambling to see if I was missing something, I turned to my right and looked at my classmate in shock. Luckily for me, he let me take his answers off his paper. As I was writing down the last two answers onto my…

Students get loud and obnoxious in class sometimes. In fact, students have a difficulty concentrating and being quiet in class. For example, on a late Friday afternoon, a student at Forest Park middle school was talking very loud and obnoxious to his friend in math class about the plans they were doing this weekend, while the rest of the class was working on an important test. This is important because the student is not getting their work done during class time. This leads to the student…

different classes about what actual behaviors they exhibit in different classes, how they feel when exhibiting certain behaviors, and how others respond to their behaviors. Or I could take this theory and apply it to social contexts outside college classrooms; I could also study the norms of deviant communities and compare them to the norms of the dominant culture/law. Nevertheless, taking a more qualitative and interpretive approach to researching this phenomenon would yield more important…

I walked in Mrs. Turner’s Kindergarten class today is my last day observing this classroom. Mrs. Turner was going over the words sentences that the students formed the last time I observed which was on Monday about what they liked to do with their families. The students are sitting on the carpet; she had to tell the students to behave on the carpet. Mrs. Turner is handled each student a dry erase board where she wrote a word from part of the sentence on it. She split the class in half having…