This past Monday I went to two classroom observations. For my final observation, I observed Vicky Golen's reading class. She started her class casually, (actually all of the observations I've done involved casual conversation at the beginning) I find this quite helpful in order to have a relationship with the students, so the classroom becomes a safe zone for them to talk. Anyways, she started the class with a short practice worksheet from the last lesson and gave students time to answer the questions. Once they were done, she reviewed the exercise with them.
She then introduced the day's lesson on simple past and present perfect tenses and went over samples with the students. She provided samples on what not to do as well as what to do or say, which I thought is always great information to share. She then provided a worksheet and gave students fill-in-the-sheet questions. She had them do the work in pairs. Afterwards, she reviewed the sheet with the students, asking them why they made the choices they did. At the end of the session she did a recap of what was due the next day with extra information.
I also noticed a lack of respect from some of the students, especially one who wouldn't take his earbuds off. She didn't do much other than repeatedly ask him to put them away. He never did put them away. This situation made me consider what I would do in her place. If I were in her place, I would have given him one chance, and if he did not abide by my request, I would ask him to leave the room instantly and give him a zero for the day. If there is one thing I do not tolerate is disrespect. The class is only 50 minutes long, there is no reason to be working on anything other than classroom work.
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