Art Observation For my art observation I went to preschool. I observed a Jr. Kindergarten class that consisted of 12 students between the ages of 4 and 5. It was a Monday‚ Tuesday‚ Wednesday class. The day that I observed the students and teachers sometimes (as well as the whole school) were a little distracted‚ because it was picture day. So after the students took their pictures they did their art activity so that they wouldn’t have to stop and they wouldn’t get dirty for the picture. Overall
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Observation Two: Gino The observation was from 10:00 am to 10:30 am. During this observation Marks class was participating in a reading lesson. The Counting Jar As I entered the classroom I saw a multicolored children sitting mat with the alphabet around the edge. On the left an e-learning white board was hung on the wall surrounded by blue paper with the days of the week posted on it. On the other side of the mat was a kidney shaped
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challenges‚ to respond to pupil’s diverse learning needs‚ and overcoming potential barriers to learning and assessment for individuals and groups. In other words teachers are expected to develop lessons that are flexible enough to engage the entire classroom‚ regardless of special educational needs‚ behavioural problems‚ physical conditions or the fact that a class may have a wide range of abilities. In order to overcome any of these potential issues it is therefore important for teachers to “differentiate”
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introspection is generally called “reflection”‚ and all professionals have adopted it in order to improve their practice‚ but for educators reflection involves “critical thinking” about past experiences or current experiences that occur or are occurring in classroom settings and looking at them in a positive light on how to make improvements for their teaching techniques and smooth the progress of children’s learning. But reflection is not an innovation in teaching‚ it has its roots in the work of a number of
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Understanding Literacy in the Classroom Danielle Taliaferro COM 172 May 1‚ 2013 Regina Vega‚ MA Understanding Literacy in the Classroom An estimated twenty-two million people each year are added to the adult illiterate population in the United States (The Talking Page‚ 2007). To define the term “literacy” on its own results in an extremely vague and ambiguous meaning. Literacy often used metaphorically to designate basic competencies and many times the definition becomes misinterpreted
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Vocational Test for Clerical Workers and the Otis Quick-Scoring Mental Ability Test and one group was given many distractions while the other group was left alone to take the test in silence. These distractions included a teacher walking into the classroom‚ people talking in the halls loudly‚ and a trumpet playing in a different room. In the end‚ the group with the distractions did in fact do worse than the group that was left alone; however‚ there wasn’t a significant statistical difference in the
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case study of a teacher ’s progress towards using a constructivist view of learning to inform teaching in elementary science.Science Education‚ 80(2)‚ 165-180. Biggs‚ J. (1995). Teaching for better learning. In J. Biggs‚ & D. Watkins (Eds.)‚ Classroom Learning: Educational Psychology for the Asian Teachers (pp. 261-279). Singapore: Prentice Hall. Carin‚ A. A. (1993). Teaching modern science (6th ed.). New York: Macmillan. Cobb‚ P. (1996). Where is the mind? A coordination of sociocultural
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Attachment Observation I observed a 27 month old boy at the a day care center. There were 20 other students present during my observation. I observed this child for approximately one hour in the morning and thirty minutes later in the day. During both of the times I was observing the child he had several crying spells. He would not play with the other children. When the class went outside he wanted to stay next to the caregiver and not interact with the other children. When the other toddlers
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Creating Effective Learning Environment: Challenging & Engaging Students within the classroom. Commissioned by Tania Baldetti 24/05/10 Table of contents 1.0 Introduction .........................................................................................................1 2.0 Key strategies...................................................................................
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had a profound affect on our understanding of child development. His main contributions have resulted in extensive application to teaching practice and curriculum design in elementary education. Some examples of Piaget’s recommendations in the classroom are‚ “with children in the sensorimotor stage‚ teachers should try to provide a rich and stimulating environment with ample objects to play with. On the other hand‚ with children in the concrete operational stage‚ learning activities should involve
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