...I went to visit Willow Grove Elementary School on March 3rd 2017 from 9am – 2pm to observe a physical education class. The school’s address is 153 Storrs Rd, Thiells, NY 10984. According to the NYSED enrollment data website, there are 655 students who attend this school. The gender distribution is about even as there are 330 girls and 325 boys. There are 94 students with some type of disability, which is 14% of the total number of students. The day that I was there to observe a physical education class there was a school wide volleyball tournament that was taking place in the gymnasium. Each grade, 4th through 6th each had a block of time where one class would play another in a game of volleyball. The principle made an announcement at each time a certain grade would go to the gymnasium for the tournament. The entire class was encouraged to play but if they did not wish to participate, or unable due to an injury, they were allowed to sit on the bleachers. The physical education teachers were assisting students when it came time to change formation when it was someone else’s turn to serve, basically showing them which direction they should all be shifting if they were unsure. The school’s dance team performed during the intermission and the announcer, one of...
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...I observed on Thursday November 10, 2016 at Wasson Elementary school. I observed a K-5 Autism support classroom. The classroom was very child friendly, colorful and everything the students would need was at their level. The walls also had helpful hints for the staff reminding them how to reinforce students as well as when students needed to be in certain places. The classroom was staffed with one teacher and six student aides, while there were nine students. I chose to focus on a student who would wander away from his desk. I would operationally define this behavior as any time the student was out of his seat without permission, a set destination, or reason. I recorded the behavior using a frequency data collection table for the rest of...
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...Key Theories of Child Development Worksheet EDU 305 Week 2 Culture and Development EDU 305 Week 2 DQs EDU 305 Week 3 Classroom Observation Summary EDU 305 Week 3 DQs EDU 305 Week 3 Preschool Program Design EDU 305 Week 4 Applied Development Theory Handout EDU 305 Week 4 Applied Developmental Theory Activity EDU 305 Week 4 DQs EDU 305 Week 4 Elementary School Design EDU 305 Week 5 Classroom Observation and Teacher Interview Paper EDU 305 Week 5 Media Influence EDU 305 Week 5 Middle School Design Activity mode aims to provide quality study notes and tutorials to the students of EDU 305 Complete Class in order to ace their studies. EDU 305 COMPLETE CLASS To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/edu-305-complete-class/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM EDU 305 COMPLETE CLASS EDU 305 Week 1 DQs EDU 305 Week 1 Key Theories of Child Development Worksheet EDU 305 Week 2 Culture and Development EDU 305 Week 2 DQs EDU 305 Week 3 Classroom Observation Summary EDU 305 Week 3 DQs EDU 305 Week 3 Preschool Program Design EDU 305 Week 4 Applied Development Theory Handout EDU 305 Week 4 Applied Developmental Theory Activity EDU 305 Week 4 DQs EDU 305 Week 4 Elementary School Design EDU 305 Week 5 Classroom Observation and Teacher Interview Paper EDU 305 Week 5 Media Influence EDU 305 Week 5 Middle School Design Activity mode aims to provide quality study notes and tutorials to the students of EDU 305 Complete Class in order to...
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...Field Observation Reflective Paper Field Observation Reflection Paper s Albany State University March 15, 2015 Field Observation Reflective Paper Abstract Education is important. It helps improve individuals. I want a career in education as a third grade teacher. I want to potentially work in a Magnet School. Recently, I have spent a total of ten hours at Lincoln Elementary Magnet School. The experience was pure bliss. The teacher that I worked with offered me inside advice that I would not have received if not volunteering. I was given an extra push to become an educator with this experience. Field Observation Reflective Paper Education is the fundamental key of life. Education is an enlightenment experience; it provides a space where learning occurs. The purpose of education is to express, introduce, and produce skills that will intellectually and socially improve an individual. These skills help guide children and adolescent throughout life and experiences. Education expresses new ideas. These ideas evolve individuals to think critically and form their own ideas on lessons. Education also introduces new lessons in which will ultimately do the standardization and basics of educationthe lessons. The skills that education provides are thinking critically, time management, and social skills. The social skills include speaking with others, making new friends, and sharing...
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...Pope Elementary School Pope Elementary School is in Cypress, Texas. Pope’s classrooms are all open concept. The class rooms do not have doors and the walls are made of glass. To enter the school everyone needs to push a button and then the main office opens the door. The speech language pathologist who works at Pope Elementary School, has an office to consult and provide information to parents and a classroom within the main office to work with the children. The speech pathologist works with the students in small groups. The speech pathologist works with children with language disorders, voice disorders, fluency disorders, dysphagia. The speech language pathologist at Pope provided therapy to children with an articulation disorder, preschoolers with a speech and language delay, and a child with a fluency disorders, during my observation. Articulation disorders are common in schools, which is why most of the information and content below is related to articulation. The articulation problems I observed included the misarticulation of /r/,...
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...In her article A Year in the Life of an Elementary School: One School’s Experiences in Meeting New Mathematics Standards, Karen Dorgan (2004) outlines a non-participatory case study undertaken during the course of the 1999—2000 school year. This study focused on the faculty of an elementary school in the state of Virginia (USA) and its efforts in coping with changes in the educational standards of learning for that state. Dorgan’s report indicates that she triangulated her data collection techniques in an ethnographic analysis, employing all three primary/principal methods for data collection during the course of her research, namely: “observation, interviewing and data analysis” (Dorgan 2004, p. 1205). Throughout the study, certain themes emerged from the data which were collected and coded – these themes are outlined in the results section of the report. As these themes are emergent, they allow the researcher to inductively generate hypotheses which result, in essence, in a grounded theory concerning the effects of political policies on teachers and students teaching and learning within the educational system. As a qualitative study, Dorgan’s research involves a certain level of subjectivity but, as indicated within the report, the researcher took pains to ensure that the level of subjectivity remained at a relatively neutral level. She states “the researcher entered the setting to be studied with as few predisposed notions as possible, intending to listen and to...
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...Classroom Observation: Practicum/Field Experience Reflection When doing my observation hours for this class I went to a local elementary school in Frederick County where I live. The elementary school is called Waverly Elementary and while there I observed the ELL teacher Mrs. Megan Taylor. In Mrs. Taylor’s class there were 4 students each day that I observed. While there I noticed a lot of SEI strategies and accommodations that were used. From the time that I walked into the classroom I noticed some SEI strategies that were being used. When Mr. Taylor started teaching her lesson she always reviewed what they had learned the day before. Once they were done reviewing from the day before it led into what they were going to be doing for that day. As she taught her lesson she always referred back to what was already taught to the students. There were also many accommodations that were used in the lessons that I observed. One thing that I noticed was that if they were having trouble saying it in English she would say the word in Spanish. When this was done the students better understood what word was trying to be said. One thing that they did was use note cards to learn the words for the lesson. They had English note cards and Spanish ones; they then had to match each word with the different language note card. Another accommodation that I saw was while they were reading. They would read the book together in English and then if they were unsure of a word they would...
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...Name: Karisa Wilson Section: 002 School Attended: Willard Elementary School Background & Contextual Factors (min. of 1 page) Willard Elementary is a school that would be described as a neighborhood school. There is not a busing system for the students, most walk to school or are dropped off by parents. The school provides educational services to a total of two hundred and seventy-one students. This school is located in what I would consider an urban community and serves a large majority of students from poverty. There are ten classrooms at Willard Elementary with an average of twenty-two students per class. Willard Elementary actually has ten percent of its students labeled as chronically truant. The ISAT scores at Willard are below the state...
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...Crosstabulation & Chi Square Robert S Michael Chi-square as an Index of Association After examining the distribution of each of the variables, the researcher’s next task is to look for relationships among two or more of the variables. Some of the tools that may be used include correlation and regression, or derivatives such as the t-test, analysis of variance, and contingency table (crosstabulation) analysis. The type of analysis chosen depends on the research design, characteristics of the variables, shape of the distributions, level of measurement, and whether the assumptions required for a particular statistical test are met. A crosstabulation is a joint frequency distribution of cases based on two or more categorical variables. Displaying a distribution of cases by their values on two or more variables is known as contingency table analysis and is one of the more commonly used analytic methods in the social sciences. The joint frequency distribution can be analyzed with the chi2 square statistic ( χ ) to determine whether the variables are statistically independent or if they are associated. If a dependency between variables does exist, then other indicators of association, such as Cramer’s V, gamma, Sommer’s d, and so forth, can be used to describe the degree which the values of one variable predict or vary with those of the other variable. More advanced techniques such as log-linear models and multinomial regression can be used to clarify the relationships contained...
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...Josefina H. Cerilles State College – Lapuyan Extention Poblacion Lapuyan, Zamboanga del Sur FIELD STUDY 1 The Learner’s Development and Environment SCHOOL AS A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT Name of FS Student: Marjie A. Tawan Course: BEED Year & Section: II Resource Teacher: Mrs.Leonor V. Tacuhan Date: August 8, 2012 Cooperating School: Antonio V. Apostol Sr. Mem. Central Elementary School An Observation Guide to the CLASSROOM VISIT Read the following statements carefully. Then write your observation reported on the provided space. 1. Describe the community or neighborhood where the school is found. 2. Describe the school campus. What colors do you see? What is the condition of the building? 3. Pass by the offices. What impression do you have these offices? 4. Walk through the school halls, the library, and the cafeteria. Look around and find out the facilities that the school has. Observation Report An Observation Guide to the CLASSROOM VISIT Be guided by these tasks as you do your observation. Then accomplish the matrix to record your data. 1. Look at the walls of the classroom. What are posted on the walls? What heroes, religious figures, visual aids, announcements, do you see posted? 2. Examine how the furniture is arranged. Where is the teacher’s table located? How are the tables and chairs/desks arranged? 3. What learning materials/equipments are present...
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...Observation #1: Children Observing people in an informal setting allows you learn more about who they are as a person. You can learn about what makes them uncomfortable, how well they handle social situations, and what they excel at. Observing children in an informal, unstructured setting gives you a glimpse into how they have developed and how well they handle social situations at their young age. Observation #1: Children details an observation made on a group of children during their recess time at a local elementary school and the connections made to previous readings and topics covered in class. Brief Overview This observation took place at an elementary school located in southern central Maryland. The school is set in an urban community, where most children qualify for the Free and Reduced Lunch Program through the government. The observation group is a group of first grade students. Students in this group are approximately six years old to seven years old. They are of African, African-American, or Latino decent. There are 15 females and 6 males within the observation group. This group of students have varying home lives. The home lives range from a typical home to being homeless, to having only one parent, to having no parents, or to having little to no income. Observation Overview The students were escorted outside to recess at eleven-thirty in the morning. The students were walked down the sidewalk toward the equipment. Once their feet touched the grass, they were...
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...Chapter 1: the problem and its background Introduction Students are most essential asset for any educational institute. The students must be nurtured and guided because the social and economic development of the country is directly linked with student academic performance. The elementary students’ academic performance measurement has garnered considerable attention to research bodies but in a broader perspective considering all the possible factors that may affect student learning. This research will focus only on the social factors affecting the academic performance of lower section students to give keener and precise observation because these factors strongly influence on the student performance. Learning is influenced by social interactions, interpersonal relationships, and communication with others.Learning is often enhanced when children have an opportunity to interact with andcollaborate with others on instructional tasks. In these situations, children haveopportunities for perspective taking and reflective thinking that can enhance their self-esteemand development. Quality interpersonal relationships can provide trust andcaring that increase children’s sense of belonging, self-respect, self-acceptance, andproduce a positive learning climate. Parents, teachers, and peers are very importantpeople in the child’s social world (Lumsden 1994). The relationships and interactions experienced by the students can enhance or undermine the students learning. Attitude can...
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...This action research study is to examine social skill intervention on children with social deficits and their ability to use active listening and observing to help them notice others. “The term ‘social skills’ encompasses a wide range of abilities that includes listening and speaking skills, the recognition and understanding of emotional facial expressions, and the appropriate employment of gesture, posture, and proximity” (Ryan & Charragain, 2010, pp. 1505). What effect does active listening and observation intervention have on students with social deficits and their ability to make connections with their peers? After intervention, participants should know how to ask questions and respond with follow up comments by actively listening. Participants should know how to collect information about peers by actively observing them inside their school community, as well as listening to them. We should see participants noticing and doing non-verbal communication while...
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...Running Head: Cafeteria Observations Observing Different Common Areas In an Elementary School Setting Chantil R. Brantley American College of Education In schools, different people can see or observe different things. Some support personnel take information and handle situations completely different than other people. Depending on who is giving the observation could determine if you get a clear accurate picture of the entire situation. Observing the information given about Lacy Elementary School, there are some concerns about the cafeteria situation. Student characteristics can be affected by their surroundings. At Lacy Elementary School, one main concern is the school is overcrowded. The school was built to hold approximately 500 students but it currently over capacity by approximately 150 students. Even though a lot of students tend to not eat breakfast, at Lacy Elementary, it is just the opposite. The bulk of the students come to eat breakfast which is a great way to start the day. According to Basch, skipping breakfast “has a negative impact on academic achievement by adversely affecting cognition and absenteeism” (Basch, 2011). Students sit quietly, talk and finish their homework during the breakfast session. The majority of the students discard their trash in the appropriate places. When it is time for the students to leave and go to class, students aren’t too noisy and exit the cafeteria appropriately. During lunch shift, the students’ actions are completely...
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...My love of music education had me excited for the observation, and I was not disappointed. Being able to see another teacher in a formal elementary school setting was immensely beneficial, considering I only have minimal experience with observing elementary schoolers. Going to the school with my peers also helped to alleviate any anxiety I had beforehand, because I could participate alongside them in a group effort. The field observation was a valuable experience for me, and I hope to make use of it as I further my studies in Music Education. Mrs. Bethune’s unique take on certain aspects of musical knowledge took me by surprise. I particularly liked how she chose to engage students with tennis balls, telling them to bounce the balls to different...
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