Lesson Clarity Observation

Hey, guys this week’s blog is on lesson clarity. Over the past few weeks of attending my scheduled aided I have been able to observe many ways the teacher uses lesson clarity. In some cases while the teacher is reading it seems as though she is using social interaction, in that she involves the students by asking questions about the story she reads. Sometimes their responses will be more on a social level, which is why I believe it is social interaction. In some ways she also uses funds of knowledge in allowing her students to write about things they know. While teaching her students to spell she encourages scaffolding, by helping when the students need the help and still allowing them to do the spelling. It’s very interesting to see some of these practices implemented into her teaching strategy.

Classroom Management

This week we were to observe classroom management, although it wasn’t possible for me to actually sit down and observe for the full 30 minutes this week I still have a grasp of how the teacher uses classroom management. My teacher uses some of her students to help her in the classroom. One example is when she has her students line up she has one person in the back to help lead the class out. It’s cool to see how she includes her students in her classroom management. It’s also neat to see how she will have the class work together. An example is when she has them do a spell aloud time and they all stand up and spell the weeks words together. It is very cool to observe new styles of classroom management.