For my classroom observation‚ I chose to observe two classrooms with teachers I do not work with at my current job Bobbie Smith Elementary in Long Beach‚ CA. My area of interest is elementary‚ I chose to observe a Kindergarten and Second grade classroom. Although I prefer to teach a Kindergarten class and not go over the Second grade‚ I know that teachers never get a pick of what grades you teach sometimes. So I am glad that I am able to gain experience in each grade level. The first hour and a
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REMEMBER: To use pseudonym (not real name) Age of *Child (ren): 3 Sex of Child (ren): male Section One: Little “Bob” walks across the classroom and grabs the peg board. He then sits down in the chair at the left corner of the table. He puts every blue circle peg in its place‚ then he places two of the dark green pegs‚ then all of the yellow triangles‚ then three of the red square pegs‚ then the last rectangular peg and finally the last square peg. He then leans against the
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Ashley C In each classroom there are about seven to ten students‚ some who required a dedicated aide and others independent. The classroom that I observed had a total of nine students‚ five aides‚ and one teacher. With the ratio given‚ it is apparent that the students are about half with and without the need of one to one supports. Although the students’ support needs vary‚ many of the independent students in the class need additional assistance due to their minimal communication skills. In this
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peer relationships and a teacher´s positive guidance. Walking inside the International Technology Academy in Pontiac‚ Michigan‚ I quickly make my way to the elementary section of the school. Ms. Thomas´ kindergarten class would be the subject of observation. The room is tucked away in a small corner‚ cradling an exercise room and a brick wall. Childlike drawings scribbled in red‚ green and black crayon litter the room´s
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Macbeth that Michael wants us to focus on so bad? Why does he portray her the way he does in the play? Step 3: Analyze Shakespeare is showing the audience something that Lady Macbeth tries to hide Artus Scheiner is illustrating for us the observation of Lady Macbeth and the reaction of the Doctor and Gentlewoman who seemed to be shocked by her behavior Michael Lynch really wants us to focus our attention on Lady Macbeth by using colors and tone to make her stand out. Step 4: Evaluate
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An observation of parent-child interaction at the park In the first five years of a child life is when the most complex development occurs. Children develop cognitively as their brain captivates information and they learn to process the information. Children also develop socially and emotionally as they interact‚ play‚ and live with others (i.e. friends‚ family or teachers). Cognitive‚ social and emotional development through play is essential for a child’s growth as well. The development of
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1)4. Why Use Observation to Collect Data? Observation methods are useful to researchers in a variety of ways. They provide researchers with ways to check for nonverbal expression of feelings‚ determine who interacts with whom‚ grasp how participants communicate with each other‚ and check for how much time is spent on various activities (SCHMUCK‚ 1997). Participant observation allows researchers to check definitions of terms that participants use in interviews‚ observe events that informants
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A child’s play is not simply a reproduction of what he or she has experienced‚ but a creative reworking of the impressions that he or she has acquired (Vygotsky). This simple phrase is meant to carry the notion that observation and documentation is key in understanding young children as learners. Observation and documentation of children has been an important part of early childhood teaching throughout history (Stuart Reifel‚ 2011). In the early nineteenth-century German educator Friedrich Froebel
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sSeven excerpts from Erving Goffman’s 1974 remarks on fieldwork can serve as his virtual preface to this narrative about his legacy. I begin with Goffman’s definition of participant observation: “By participant observation‚” he said‚ “I mean a technique . . . of getting data . . . by subjecting yourself‚ your own body and your own personality and your own social situation‚ to the set of contingencies that play upon a set of individuals so that you can physically and ecologically penetrate their circle
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While observing a group of Crystal Lake Central High School students in co-op sometime around early afternoon. Roughly around the age of seventeen or eighteen‚ the age of upperclassmen in high school. The group consisted of five girls. They were in co-op‚ which is basically a study hall here at Central. The group of girls consisted of two of them being of hispanic ethnicity and the other three being of white ethnicity. The group is not all consisting of people that are of just one race is it is a
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