Who Is Mrs. Patton's Classroom Observation?

Mrs. Patton is what I call a veteran teacher. She has had many years in the classroom, and her classroom management skills show just that. Mrs. Patton does an array of things that create an environment of respect and rapport with the students. She calls each student by name, and she uses random selection to ensure that every student has a chance to answer questions and succeed in the classroom. Her method of random selection is the clothespin buckets. She has a bucket for each period and a clothespin with each students name on it. Mrs. Patton is also very open and straightforward with her students. If the students are doing anything that she disapproves of, she confronts them. Luckily, the students do not react badly to her. I believe that
Patton also has an assistant teacher in her classroom named Mr. Willie Hinton who works with the students who are struggling at a table stationed in the back corner. These low-level students are still taking notes and working as Mrs. Patton teaches, but Mr. Hinton helps them as they work problems individually or to understand what they are writing down. Her class also has information on every space on the wall and board. The students can find steps to solve just about any math question on her walls. She has extra whiteboards with wheels that she moves and leaves example problems on for the students to refer to while working individually. The organization of her classroom attributes to the students' success by allowing the students to have access to so much information without having to look through their notes. The students come into the room, knowing to work on the extra problems they may have been given the lesson before. This lets me know that Mrs. Patton has established that when the students come into the classroom they will immediately get started on their work. I will be taking away how she uses her classroom walls as a reference tool for the students. I will be hanging up all sorts of information related to science so that the students will see it daily as they sit in my
Patton and the students is clear and accurate, Patton requires that each of her students have a planner that she has them write down any future due dates of assignments in. She also leaves these dates on the left top corner of her board. Mrs. Patton greets every student at the door and she reminds them as they walk in what they need to be working on and the due dates. Some students were still confused the day I observed her, as one student asked about the due date of an assignment that was due the previous day. Mrs. Patton also reminds the students as they walk out what needs to be done. Patton uses a random question technique. She selects students randomly using clothespins in a bucket. However, instead of asking the question and allowing everyone to think before calling on someone she calls the name of the randomly selected student before asking the question. I believe she does this to prevent the other students from blurting out answers, but it causes the other students who weren't randomly selected to not even think about the answer to the question. Students are very engaged throughout the lesson because Patton does not allow anything else or the students are immediately dealt with in front of the entire classroom and sent out if their engagement does not improve. She keeps the students engaged by requiring all students to answer questions and by working problems on the board that the students will need to turn in for a grade.