The teacher leads the class more times then not. She’s a very involved teacher, constantly moving around the room. She wears high heels most days, but always beings a pair of sneakers to change into so she can continue teaching while moving around. The first day she changed her shoes within the first two hours of the day. I observed in her room on Tuesday and Thursday, so I wasn’t able to observe the activity she tries to do every Wednesday, but she told me about it. The class does teacher led yoga, where she uses literally terms and correlates them to yoga poses. An example of what she would do is a dynamic character vs a static one. The kids love receiving this reward, and it helps them remember the terms a lot better. She told me about how when …show more content…
She told me her tactic here is a deliberate one, if gives the boy a edge off the shyness of answering the question/not being involved, and allows him to pick someone else, which makes the student feel more comfortable. The students seem to be engaged most of the time, otherwise she made comments like, “Aww you guys are sleepy, and it’s killing me” or “that’s an awfully nice phone” to acknowledge a student off task in a light hearted way, while continuing to correct the wrong behavior. If students are talking among themselves when they are not supposed to be, which seemed to happen more often among the girls in the class, she would say, “girls let’s get back on task” and it usually corrected the behavior the first try. The kids can move around the classroom when they are doing independent reading, to get in a more comfortable spot, around their friends. She allows them to do this as long as they are doing good that