Examples Of Focused Observation

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Focused Observation After having assisted at Cragmont for the last couple of years, it is hard to remember what I noticed first. However, this time I did walk through the library to get to her new classroom and the first thing I noticed is that it was small. It was stuck upstairs kind of in the passing of classrooms. It was located in the middle of the two wings of the schools, so you walked through the library to get to the classes on the left wing or the right wing. The library was a little bigger than a classroom and neatly organized with bookshelves containing books both in Spanish and English. Ms. Cherene’s class being right next to the library caused students to stop and look at books during any transition time, whether from snack back to class, or on their way to the bathroom. I think the library surprised me because at my Elementary School it was …show more content…

However, besides that descriptive moment I have a tie between my most memorable moment being a student interaction as well as the discussion that went on during the sinking ship activity. While we were completing the sinking ship activity, there was a student who was raising his voice, saying “you shouldn’t be part of this table group”, “my ideas are better than yours”, and “we are bringing the axe not the bow and arrows” to his table partners. His face sagging with arms crossed across his chest. I went to sit at their table and discuss what was going on. When I sat down there was two girls to my right at the table and two boys to my left. They were at the southern coast table. They quickly blurted out that the problem was they couldn’t agree on whether to bring an axe or a quiver of bow

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