The Reflection Of Observation In The Classroom

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Over the few days that I got to observe at Magnolia Elementary, I observed that the teacher followed the same procedure every day. In the morning before the class started she would allow the students to have a restroom break and fill out their water bottles.
Since I observed on multiple Friday, it was the day that the teacher would award her students with a dance break. When I asked the teacher over why she gave them the dance break, she responded with, “If the students acted good during the week, she promised them a 5 min dance party. Plus it wakes them up.” After the dance break, the instructor would start the lesson by huddling them up in lines of five and going over the class objective.
The instructor would read the objective in parts …show more content…

When this lesson was in play, the teacher would sit on a desk and call out certain students to create a group of about eight people with her. Then she would go over the objective in more detail by restating the objective and going over the key words again. Then she would go over the worksheet with the students. At this moment is when I realized how much patience is required to be a teacher. I got to observe how a student processes new information. Questions that were asked where common math question such as “What is the difference between 25 and 10?” From here the students were giving about five minutes or less depending how quick the group answered. Then the teacher walked around and checked the students answer. Without calling out anyone she then copied a mistake a student made. Then she asked the whole group to explain why this answer was incorrect? Step by the step the teacher would go over the problem and purposely mess up once in a while to see if someone caught her. The reason for doing so was because the students love to prove the teacher wrong. She would follow the same process for about two more question and then ordered the student to finish the rest of the worksheet and turn it in at the classroom’s designated

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