Classroom Observations

Fieldwork Report D: Classroom Interactions 1. Focus on one student for half hour during Language Arts a. Ernesto is the students I observed for 30 minutes during my observations. Ernesto is a struggling reading who can get distracted easily and keeps distracting the class. • 9:45- He began working on his spelling during centers. Ernesto looked back at group the teacher was working with because it interested him what the teacher said to the other students. • 9:50- He continued working on his spelling, but he only wrote one word and then he became distracted by the students that were walking around the room • 9:55-I noticed he made several pauses between every word he wrote. He looked back again to group working with teacher, but this time the teacher told him that his work was in front not back there where she was. Ernesto turned back around to face the front, but instead of continuing to write his spelling he began looking in his desk then back at his words. • 10:00- He then once again got distracted by talking to his neighbor in the back. As he spoke with his peer, he swung his chair back and forth. After he talked to his neighbor he walked over to the class library in search of a book. As he walked back to his seat, he stopped and starred at the project the teacher was working on with another group. • 10:05-He began his work using the book he found in the classroom library. He was not too far along with his work when he asked the people in his group what the next activity was that they had to do. He only asked because he saw that the rest of his group was moving on and he was not done with his first activity. • 10:10-At this time, he went on to the next center which was listening center. He put on his headphones to begin to listen to the story, but after a minute or so, it became evident he was not listening to