The sun shines on my notebook filled with connecting pencil marks. I zone out the professor talking in front of the classroom. I don't really remember his name but he usually ends up starting class late since he can never figure out how to get the videos playing. This is my last class of the day before I have to pick up my little brother from school. "Raven..." I turn my head to my best friend sitting next to me. "Hm?" "Your not taking notes today?" I looked at the professor again to see the
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My initial classroom observation went totally different from what I was expecting. I was extremely nervous to be just "staring" at students and typing on my huge laptop. However, a bit of my anxiety went away when I saw my classmate Maggie and also when we both decided that sitting in the front of the classroom was definitely something we were not interested in doing at all. During the duration of the observation I felt like an hour and fifteen minute class session seems way longer when you are just
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The room smelled faintly of playdough and a loud crash rang from the back of the classroom as a tower of blocks collapsed. Nervously, I hung my pink backpack on a hook. My parents smiled down at me before leaving me in the increasingly chaotic preschool classroom. Throughout my first day, I heard an onslaught of new words. My head spun, why was no one speaking Chinese? Suddenly, there were “shoes” and “crayons” - two terms my mother had only taught me in Chinese. Every object my mother had taught
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Mrs. Holdway, I have been an educator in the Claiborne County schools for 36 years, but Wednesday I had an incident occur that has never happened throughout my career. I put in a technology requisition to have computer internet repairs done in the lab. Today, Chad and Brian came to fix the issues. First, let me say that Brian was both and polite and professional towards me. Immediately though, Chad accused me in front of a room full of students, as well as two other teachers, of allowing the
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While I was observing I saw a child who was making "hon hon" noises by opening his mouth and making the noise though his nose. The children giggled at first but then ignored him when he made that noise again. The two teacher seemed to ignore the behavior and eventually he stopped making it. I saw the Aid a few times remind the student to stay focused and mentioned what his rules were. The teacher mentioned to me that sometimes she has him get a drink of water when he needs a break. However she also
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The context. Provide the reader with the setting of the observation including the place and the content of the lesson interfaced for learning. For my peer observation I had the opportunity to visit Ms. Cade’s 1st grade classroom at Hyalite where Savannah is completing her practicum at. Savannah has being teaching a unit on plants and for this lesson I was able to participate in a lesson that demonstrated whether plants need soil to grow. She had created an activity that would but this theory to action
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For the parents that have children coming home from school complaining about blurred vision or eye pain, the answer is in the student’s classroom. The answer is actually something that is used for educational use and is affecting the students of today, but not in a good way. It is the laptop or tablet. Laptops can be a great resource to have but being on one all day can be very harmful to someone. Studies show that laptops are related to multiple health issues. Manufacturing laptops or tablets is
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Currently, Quazonte is enrolled in Churchland Middle School full-time, as an 8th grader. In the last three months, Quazonte has attended school regularly, but there have been interventions by school administration. His recent school behavior has resulted in two out-of-school suspensions, one for fighting and one for being involved in the current matter before the court. Quazonte's performance at school is concerning- he is failing English 8 and Math 8. He is passing all his other classes. The school
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really helped me to perceive what my future career may appear to be by tracing the steps of a real life teacher. In order for Ms. Lazzara to perform well she needs to comprehend the students’ needs and be aware of the diversity within her own classroom. As the class moved to a different subject, so did the students. The students were called up by table numbers to the rug for reading time. Ms. Lazzara called up each table to the rug depending on their behavior while seated. She read aloud a book
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The Importance of Classroom Management An effective classroom management plan is the key to becoming an effective teacher, as well as making sure that is learning going on in the classroom. (Wong, Wong, Rogers, & Brooks, 2012) All classrooms should have an effective teacher to teach the students. An effective classroom management plan will also help the teacher keep the classroom under control and it helps the students focus better. An effective classroom management plan will help keep the teachers
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