During the opening week of the current school year, I had the opportunity to observe a master teacher. This teacher teaches 8th grade mathematics at Northern Middle School, the school I am currently interning at. On the first day of school, as the students entered the classroom, the teacher greeted each student individually in the doorway, introducing herself to them and asking the students what their names were. After the introduction, the students walked into the classroom and they were presented
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I am going with the observation choice one on observing two different conversations I witnessed over the break. I decided to pick this choice is because I knew I was going to be around several people on Thanksgiving Day. Both my observations were at my sister-in-law’s house in Gilroy, Ca. There were a lot of people having small talks and communicating. Obviously, I did not tell anyone what I was doing. I wanted to observe the people in their natural conversation and it was rather funny observing
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Participant Observation Among Members Of Rho Eta Delta For this paper, the group of individuals that I chose to observe is the Rho Eta Delta fraternity. They are one of the most recently formed fraternity on campus being present on campus for only ten years so far. The group consist of eighteen men which includes the new members that recently just became part of them. Rho Eta Delta also has a corollary (Rhos Bud) which is partial membership that allow students of the opposite gender to be part
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Observations of Chemical Change and Physical Change Emily Fromme July 7, 2015 Purpose: To perform a variety of chemical reactions and make scientific observations to describe the chemical change. Equipment: Pie pan, dish soap, distilled water, matches or lighter, pair of sunglasses, paper towel, scissors, sheet of black paper, sheet of white paper, source of tap water, sunlight (needed for 30 minutes); burner fuel, 2 pairs of gloves, pipet, empty short-stem pipet, goggles, spatula (metal)
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INTRODUCTION This naturalistic observation examined interactions between two men eating at Panera Bread. The aim was to gain a better understanding of social cues, such as dress, posture, mannerisms, and body language, which may help more fully inform an observer of social interaction than conversation alone. METHOD The participants were two men eating at Panera Bread. “Peter” was approximately twenty years old, dressed in a denim shirt, a pair of jeans in dark acid wash, and a pair of navy blue
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The settings I studied were two grocery stores. The first store was a college campus grocery store/deli. This store was small and had few employees. The atmosphere of this store was casual and somewhat relaxed. The atmosphere was created by the employees’, their interactions with the customers, and the types of services being offered. The employees wore jeans and polo uniform shirts which is very casual and nothing like business attire or a full uniform like larger grocery store might make them
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For my data collection, I will be observing behavior at three different location. The first location that I will be observing behavior is on Thanksgiving at the family lunch time. I am planning to observe all the adults at the Thanksgiving lunch. The behavior that I will be observing that the adult will be informal with one another, one trying to sound more knowledgeable than the other. They will talk over each other, correcting each other about the information that they know and learned. The next
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Observation Two A few days ago, I was able to observe my second teacher for my assignment in the first placement of student teaching. The room was located directly above the classroom that I am currently in. There are windows on two sides of the walls. The seating is also group tables with loose chairs instead of the regular single student desk which is attached to the chair. Today, the desks were put into groups on two sides of the room and one table was in the middle towards the end of the wall
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Running head: PERSONAL ACTION PLAN Personal Action Plan Observations Rhonda Riley University of Phoenix Diversity in Communications COMM/315 Peter Pizor October 20, 2009 Personal Action Plan Today, instead of going to The Red Lobster with my co-worker for a lovely, lavish steak and lobster lunch; I decided to go to the unemployment office (Henderson - Job Connect), to observe the various types of people coming in to apply for employment; in an attempt to identify the social differences
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boys are now at the age of six, each with their own vibrant personalities. Although all boys look very much alike, especially the twins, each has their own mind and personality that would defiantly make them their own individual. During my observations, I quickly decided that my point of interest in writing this paper would be to focus on the social behaviors between all three of the children. I not only decided on observing how the siblings interact with each other, but I also decided it would
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