Rachel Johnson
Observation
June 18, 2013
Reflection 6
What I observed in the first class, is that teacher is really calm, but he lets them know who is in charge. He sent half the class outside reading the passage for today and to do the worksheets. The students seem more in control and had little to no behavior problems. He played music that the kids wanted to hear as long as they were on task and the teacher set a time limit to which they were suppose to be done. Which I noticed actually made them stay on task to meet the time requirement. For the second part of the class, we came Inside and students had to work on a prezi. He instructed the students that wasn’t there In a small group and gave the rest of the students a paper with all of the instructions and detail about what the assignment was, and what they were require to do, just in case they forgot. He never once sat down, he walked around making sure each student was on task and if they needed help or was getting frustrated he helped them without doing the work for them. His room Is set up In a circle, so he can walk around the class easy and see all laptops. The second class was more hyper and loud. Right when students started walking in the class, he pulled the kids that cut up in class to the side and showed them their name on the board and explained to them if they do something to distract the class he was going to erase a letter and once all the letters were gone, they would be asked to go home. I think that was a great approach because they actually did pretty good. A few tried to see if he was serious and got a couple letters erased but once they saw he was serious they calmed down and completed the task that the other class had. Considering that this was summer school there wasn’t much in the classroom he had the desk in an ‘O’ shape and students could sit wherever as long as they was on task. A couple students he moved around so they wouldn’t get in trouble. I noticed that the teacher did a lot of positive reinforcement. He let the students know when they were doing something distracting and also gave them positive feedback when they cleaned up their act. As kids were getting frustrated at the task he told them that its ok, ask for help because he’s there to help them. He really didn’t have discipline strategies accept the one i mentioned earlier. Overall he had a good class and I had a good day observing the class and talking to the kid, it was very interesting.
