ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORM

Seminole State College of Florida

Activities/Observations Elementary (5 hours)

(15 hours total) (Comment on each of the topics on the left)

Room set up: The room was very clean and easy to move around. Everything had its place,
and there was no clutter, or any sort of distractions for the students. The
 Flexible, moveable room was inviting and safe.
 Inviting, clean
 Safe, orderly

Visual Examples: The room was colorful, and littered with student work on all of the walls.
There were also encouraging quotes on the wall all around the classroom.
 Graphic Organizers The 4 walls had something positive written on them. The whiteboard has the
 Scoring Guides
day’s assignment and the agenda for the day.
 Student Work
Displayed
 Procedures/Rule
 Agenda
Print Materials: Laptops and books were located in the back of the classroom on the left side.
They were away from students, and not in the walkway, so students backs
 Variety of books were turned to them, and they could grab them with ease if they needed to
 Magazines
use them, and not trample all over each other.
 Other Print Material

Instructional The students were doing a PowerPoint project on owls, and Mr. Hardy was
Presentation: helping then every step of the way. He went over the rubric and told the
students in details what he wanted to see in each PowerPoint, as well as the
 Lecture weight of the grade for each thing descried. All of the students had their
 Discussion
laptops in front of them and were following along as Mr. Hardy walked them
 Question & Answer
through how to open a new power point on the white board. They were
 Small Group Work
instructed to do exactly as he was doing, and he explained in detail how to
 Modeling
work through power point, as well as how and where they will need to save
 Monitoring
the file. He also provided a link to a website for his students where they can
 Assessment
find all the research they will need for their owls. He answered all questions
 Clear & Audible
 Used Visual Aids his students had, and even went and sat beside them if they needed extra
 Used Technology help because they did not understand how to do something.
 Students are
attentive and
engaged
 Addressed all
learners
 MIDDLE OR HIGH SCHOOL FORM
Seminole State College of Florida
Classroom Observation Checklist
EDG 2949: Practicum in Education
Student Name: Jo-Anna Dillon

Activities/Observations Middle or High School (5 hours)

(15 hours total) (Comment on each of the topics on the left)

Room set up: The classroom was a little plainer than that of the elementary school, but it
was very organized, clean, and easy to move around. The classroom, as well
 Flexible, moveable as the building felt very safe.
 Inviting, clean
 Safe, orderly

Visual Examples: The classroom was painted white and did not have much on them. The class
had just finished doing state test, so that explained a lot about the classroom
 Graphic Organizers walls looking do bare. The whiteboard has the assignment for each period on
 Scoring Guides
the board. The desks were arranged in pairs, and were lined up into 5 rows.
 Student Work
The classroom rules were hung above the white board, near the clock =, so all
Displayed
the students could see when they sat down.
 Procedures/Rule
 Agenda
Print Materials: The only books I saw were the red or green science books that were on a
bookshelf against a wall as soon as you entered the classroom. There were a
 Variety of books few magazines scattered on the teacher’s desk, and there was a table in the
 Magazines
front of the classroom by the whiteboard, that help all the student
 Other Print Material
assignments.

Instructional The students enter the classroom and immediately got to their assigned
Presentation: seats. The teacher greets them cheerily and goes over the assignments for
 Lecture the day. They will be completing their final review index cards, and then
 Discussion completing their family tree project, and finally, she will be introducing the
 Question & Answer topic of Sex for the last 45 minutes of the class. The students are instructed
 Small Group Work to get out their index cards, and finish their final review sheets. They do that
 Modeling for about 30 minutes, before meeting up with their partners to finish their
 Monitoring family tree project. Once they are done with the project, they turn it in and
 Assessment the teacher shows their work off to the rest of the class. Finally, when it
 Clear & Audible comes time to have the sex talk, the teacher explains that she does not
 Used Visual Aids expect any crude remarks or snickering. She expects them to be mature
 Used Technology about the topic. She has them take out pieces of paper and a pencil to write
 Students are down anonymous questions they may have and turn it in after class. The
attentive and Class does really well with behaving maturely.
engaged
 Addressed all
learners
 DIVERSE STUDENT POPLUATION FORM
Seminole State College of Florida
Classroom Observation Checklist
EDG 2949: Practicum in Education
Student Name: Jo-Anna Dillon

Activities/Observations Diverse Student Population (5 hours)

(15 hours total) (Comment on each of the topics on the left)

Room set up: The classroom was very open and had a kit of room to move around. It only
has two half-moon shaped desk in the center of the room. Everything was
 Flexible, moveable bused against a wall. The classroom was extremely organized, and everything
 Inviting, clean
had its placed, or was neatly filed away.
 Safe, orderly

Visual Examples: The first thing that caught my attention was that the student’s had flex
seating, meaning they could sit wherever they wanted on whatever they
 Graphic Organizers wanted. The students mainly sat on either bean bag chairs or rolling chairs,
 Scoring Guides
and gathered around one of the half-moon tables (there were only 5
 Student Work
student’s in the class).There was a picture of all the students the teacher
Displayed
taught, and each picture had a string attached to it, and the sting went to a
 Procedures/Rule
map that pinpointed where all the students were from.
 Agenda
Print Materials: There are a ton of picture books and such on a bookcase by the front door.
On top of the bookcase is a treasure chest filled with candy for the student to
 Variety of books have as a reward for good behavior or doing good on an assignment, or even
 Magazines
for participating. All 5 students were able to get something from the treasure
 Other Print Material
chest that day. Reading activities were among the bookcase.

Instructional The class was going over reading assignments , and everyone was gather
Presentation: around a circle by one of the half-moon tables, sitting in their rolling chairs or
 Lecture on a bean bag. The teacher informed the entire class why they were going
 Discussion over the assignments, and let them know that they will be going over the
 Question & Answer answers together. The teacher read a sentence or two, and then called on
 Small Group Work one of the other students to pick up where she left off. She stopped the
 Modeling reading every so often to go over a particular sentence, and make sure that
 Monitoring the students understood that the sentence meant. She monitored all the
 Assessment students when she was not reading to ensure that they were following along.
 Clear & Audible If they were distracted, she would call and that student and remind them to
 Used Visual Aids focus. Once they were done reading, they went over the answers together.
 Used Technology The students were engaged because they had to raise their hand and tell her
 Students are the correct answer, and also explain how they came up with that answer.
attentive and They were instructed to highlight the correct answer if they got it wrong. The
engaged
teacher used encouraging words throughout, and was constantly reminding
 Addressed all
her students that they were great, and not to be discouraged by the grade
learners
they received, because she knew they had the potential to do better.