Classroom

The environment of a classroom is a very important factor in a child’s education and should include a variety of centers, equipment, and space. Ideally the classroom will provide the students with different learning tools and stimuli in an area that does not feel overcrowded or cluttered. Children should be provided with an environment that is not over crowded with too many students and not enough resources- something that can be difficult in certain school systems. Overall the indoor…

My child observation and classroom observation took place at the Mt. San Jacinto Child Development and Education center in the preschool/pre-k (ages 36 months to 54 months) program room. This classroom has 2 teachers and 15 children in attendance during my observation. My study child is a male student age 4 who for this assignment I will refer to as C. The classroom environment as a whole can handle the children within the program, however I will provide a better picture of the entire room to…

the most welcomed by greeting me every time I observed in their classrooms (none of the others made me feel unwelcomed). I believe that the welcoming also came from the classroom environment that Mrs. Whitelaw provided her students. The class was covered in the students’ school work and achievements. The classroom also provided escapes to any of the students that needed alone time or a quiet space. There was a room in the classroom designed for students that needed alone time. This space was a…

Knowledge Throughout this practicum experience I gained many insights into classroom management, organization and instructional strategies. I would like to begin with classroom management, my facilitating teacher utilized the clip system and reward ticket system in her classroom. While the clip system is an excellent system in theory the success of it can be determined by how the teacher utilizes it. While in the field I found the clip system to be more of a threat to be leveraged against…

In a classroom, as a first time teacher, not only are you the teacher but also a student. As a teacher you learn your new environment and also in the beginning of a new school year, your students. Classrooms are very unpredictable places for both teachers and students but, determining reinforcements and consequences is essential also teaching them to the students and spending the time to explain the benefits of following them, is a critical time spent well for a new teacher. It saves them time…

Susan Hillmeyer at Albuquerque High-School and learned so many incredible things in just a short amount of time. In a special needs classroom, things are always going…

I would respond to a child who constantly misbehaved in my classroom by using classroom management skills along with teaching behaviors that were appropriate with the problem that I was faced with. I would communicate with the child to see why they were behaving that way and see if there was anything I could do to calm down the child. I would enforce class rules and create a personal behavior plan for that student to follow. When a professor knows my name it makes me feel like the teacher…

I visited three different classrooms at north shore elementary. For my internship, I am in a first-grade classroom, so I decided to observe a second-grade classroom as it would be a good opportunity to see how wide the gap of only one year would be with students. I also visited a gifted and talented third-grade classroom and a Special education resource class. From my day observing different classrooms I learned that techniques and strategies change to accommodate each individual child. In the…

For my observations this semester, I am observing Mrs. Debbie Clay’s 8th grade US history class. Mrs. Clay is the head of the social studies department at Brink Jr. High in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This school is one of the top junior highs in the state. Though her room is quite small, Mrs. Clay effectively utilizes the space she has. Desks are arranged in rows and columns, with one set of desks facing directly towards the front, and another set facing towards the front at a slight angle. A…

While observing all of the wiggling around him, I’m astonished at how quiet and polite Truth is, never taking his eyes off of his teacher. At 2:45 the students are taken back to their classroom. Truth joins his classmates in a discussion about vibrations, he interacts with his neighbors, listens when the teacher is talking, and is very interactive. At 3:00 the class return to the carpet for a story where Truth sits with his hands in his…