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The classroom is organized with student desks in groups facing the board, and centers are set up around the room for easy access. There are 22 first grade students, including 9 ESL students and several with behavioral challenges, and the teacher interacts positively with students 96% of the day. Support for struggling students is provided through small group instruction and strategic desk arrangements to foster collaboration and peer assistance.

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assignment 3-487

The classroom is organized with student desks in groups facing the board, and centers are set up around the room for easy access. There are 22 first grade students, including 9 ESL students and several with behavioral challenges, and the teacher interacts positively with students 96% of the day. Support for struggling students is provided through small group instruction and strategic desk arrangements to foster collaboration and peer assistance.

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Assignment 3- Classroom

Observation:
Classroom Description:
The classroom has 5 groups of student desks in the middle of the room. All the
desks are facing in such a way that they can all see the board in the front of the
room and the two on the sides of the room. The centers are set up all around the
room on the walls. Students know where to go and what to do for each center. The
table used for small groups is in the back of the room facing the door so that the
teacher can always see the students while they are working in centers. The
teacher’s desk is placed right beside the small group table at the back of the room.
The students’ materials are all organized and, on a shelf, where the students can
easily access it. There is a rug at the front of the room in front of the board that
students sit on during whole group instruction for skills block, math, and module.
Student Details:
There are 22 first grade students in the class. Out of those 22, there are 9 ESL
students. The class is predominantly African American (12). There are 8 Hispanic
students and 2 Vietnamese students. There is 1 student with an IEP that gets pulled
out of class everyday twice for 40 minutes. There is one student that has severe
ADHD but does not have a plan. There are 2 students in the class with anger issues.
One is frustration when failing and the other is frustration when things don’t go his
way. The latter of the two is a more severe anger problem.
Teacher/student Interactions:
The teacher interacts with the students for 96 percent of the day. There are very
few times that the students are in the classroom and the teacher is not interacting
with them. Most of the interactions are positive and instructional based. There are
some negative interactions when behavior issues come into play. The teacher is
direct with the student causing the issue and doesn’t punish the entire class for
something that one student is doing. The teacher will sometimes take a singular
student outside and talk with them if the behavior is serious. If the whole class is
showing disruptive behavior, then the teacher will address the entire class.
Reinforcement Systems:
The whole class reinforcement system is using clips. If a student misbehaves then
the teacher will make the student pull their clip down in the next letter below it. This
also reflects their behavior grade for the end of the day. If a student makes it to C,
the student loses their Recess time. If a student makes it to D, the student loses
their ancillary. The students also have PBIS celebrations each month for the
students who do not have any write ups or an average of C or above for their
behavior for the month. The individual system is integrated into the whole group
system.
Student levels of response:
Students generally respond very well to the teacher. When questions are asked,
most of the students respond every time. Students are very responsive to
instructions given by the teacher and follow them very clearly.
Support for struggling students:
The teacher provides the students with support in small groups. The teacher meets
with the struggling students every day in small groups. The teacher also has the
students in a specific group at the desks. This way there are high medium and low
students at each desk, so some students get challenged, some students can help
others, and they have a variety of people to talk to and work with as partners. The
teacher will also pull certain students that aren’t getting the concept being taught
and give them extra help to understand the content being taught and help close the
gaps.

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