Disengaging In Classroom

In class, again we discussed what a boring vs interactive class looks like. Mr. Marin’s class seems to be the engaging classroom we talked about in class. A lot of are class discussion is on engaging students. He doesn’t really use videos to engage students but we did talk about that being a thing. We talked about how being distracted could be very disengaging for the students. There is a no phone policy in the classroom which we talked about in class and was in the weekly reading response. What we could do about cell phones in the classroom. His approach is to have a complete ban as he was talking to staff about it in the film. There are other distractions in the classroom. Well each other. They distract each other which could be disengaging.

I believe that most of the environment is negative, but it has some positive qualities. The teachers seem to not care about the students that much at all. Some do care and stick up for the students. The room layouts and decorations seem to not promote a positive environment. The teachers’ lounge seems to have a negative association with it. They had a conference in a classroom which shows negativity, although it looked like a conference room, the principal said classroom. The principal’s office seems to be an uncomfortable place. It is small and doesn’t really accommodate the student. School seems like a place students don’t want to be. The building looks really bad on my opinion. Administration has a bad rap also for not caring about the students much at all. The school seems to not have very good teachers. It seems to have a high turnover rate for teachers. I saw in the beginning the retiring giving a speech to the teachers aimed at the new teachers, so it seemed there was a lot of new teachers. I think that’s because there is a high turnover. I see that Mr. Marin’s classroom isn’t decorated and the desks are just in rows and too close