EDU-211-26523 Behavior Observation in Education Wing Yan Hui

Part 1

After reading chapter 2 and chapter 3, please answer the following questions:

1. How can you learn about the different types of learning styles of your future students?

Observation is very important to identify what types the students are. After

observation, teacher can differentiate active and passive students; quiet and chatty

students; dependent and independent students and so on. Besides, different teaching

strategies such as group discussion, presentation, project and so on may let teacher

learn more students’ learning types because they may engage more if they found it

more comfortable to learn. Thus, teacher can know those students like this kind of

teaching strategy.

2. How best can teachers adapt to different learning styles?

Teachers should have different teaching strategies such as lecture, visual aids, hands

on experiences, or written task for different learning styles students. For the

assessment, teachers can hand out the assignments, exams, group discussion, project,

laboratory and so on to assess students who have different learning styles so that

students can have different platform to show what they have learnt.
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3. What is one strategy that a teacher has taught you?

One strategy that I learn from my teacher is show and tell. In my previous early

childhood education courses, show and tell can let students share what they brought

to class. The thing that they brought is their favorite toy so that students can be very

confident to tell the class how to play that toy. Also, students who are sitting and

listening can learn how to respect when others are talking.

4. What is one message that has been effectively stated to you from a teacher?

One message I learnt from my teacher in my previous early childhood education

course is that if you look for a high paid salary job, it should not be pre-school or

kindergarten teacher. It inspires me so much because it always reminds me that I

should be delighted because of the students, not only the salary.

5. How will you know as a teacher that the lesson was effective?

Each lesson should have a lesson plan with the assessment method. Teacher can know

if the learning objectives has been achieved in that lesson. During the lesson, teacher

can interact with students or do observation to check their understanding to adjust the

teaching strategy if needed. If the students are not paying attention in the class, they

might feel bored or the materials are too easy or difficult.

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6. What can you do to reevaluate? How will you know it is effective?

Observation in class is a very effective way to reevaluate because students’ behaviors

and attitudes showed how effective the lesson was. Also, their quizzes, exams,

assignments, or projects’ presentation can show if they obtain the knowledge from the

lessons. Learning objectives and assessment in the lesson plan is a good measurement

to see if that lesson or teaching strategy is effective.

7. Where can teachers go to gain more professional knowledge?

Before running a new curriculum or program in different subject, there should be a

training course for teachers to get a better knowledge how it works the best. Also, As

the society keeps changing every day, teachers can get some advanced degree or

different from their previous major but related to education courses or certificates so

that they can get the updated information to teach students.

8. How would you get students attention?

Establishing a consistent routine can let students be more secure because they know

what will happen next. When they feel secure, they can be more concentrating in class.

Also, some call and response attention getters can be used in class to get their attention

such as “one, two, three, eyes on me” and “macaroni and cheese, everybody freeze.”

Interaction with students is important too so that students know teacher is caring about
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what they are doing or thinking, especially when ask questions to check for

understanding.

9. What strategies would you use?

Building a positive relationship with students will be my first step because trusting

relationship can strengthen the bonding and it will be easier to establish some

classroom rules and routines. During lessons, having students’ contributions is

important as well as giving them lectures. From students’ contribution, I can know

how much they engage in class so that I can reflect on how effective my lesson is.

Furthermore, peers’ interaction is good for students as well because they need to learn

social skills by communicating with each other. It also can be a motivation for students

to learn with peers.

10. How would you correct misbehaviors?

I will talk to the student directly to know why he or she behaved that way. Then, I will

mention the classroom rule if it is related. The student may have consequence after

telling he or she not to misbehave and he or she still chose to misbehave. Students

need to learn there are consequences. If the misbehavior is serious and affects the

whole class, I will discuss with them in the whole class to stop students imitating each

other.
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Part 2

After reading chapter 2 on page 13 there are 18 important questions of teaching. For each

question, please provide an applicable example of how you will address each of these issues

or concerns in your future classroom. You can use bullets for this assignment.

1. How do I get students to pay attention and stay on task?

➢ Establish some attention getters with students and make sure they know my

expectations that they can achieve.

2. How do I keep the flow of events moving smoothly and minimize downtime, delays,

and distractions?

➢ Give students some positive reinforcement like when they can finish it on time,

they can have some prizes such as some privileges, rewards, or stickers.

3. How do I get the most out of my space and furniture?

➢ Desks and chairs are the bulkiest furniture in the classroom. I should consider how

students are going to work and rearrange the seating plan if needed.
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4. How do I time events and regulate schedules so that students get the most productive

learning time?

➢ Students have short attention span, especially the young children who are in

kindergarten and 1st grade. The schedule should have both quiet time activities and

movement activities. Having a brain break like dancing can refresh their minds so

that they can focus on the work again.

5. What procedural routines are important and how do I get maximum mileage out of

them?

➢ Classroom clean up and verbal attention getters.

➢ When students can clean up well by themselves, I can save a lot of time in class.

Also, when the class is in chaos, verbal attention, verbal attention getters can let

students freeze and listen to teacher’s instructions.

6. How do I eliminate disruptions while building responsibility and ownership?

➢ Having a classroom job duty list for students can build up their responsibility and

ownership. They can be line leader, light helper, door holder in the class. The

duties would rotate once a week so that every student can take turns to have a job.
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7. How do I make concepts and skills clear and accessible to students?

➢ Abstract concepts nowadays are much easier to present to students nowadays

because there are more videos for students to watch to visualize the abstract

concept in an easier way to understand.

8. How do I design more efficient and effective learning experiences?

➢ When designing the learning experiences or lesson plans, the learning objectives

should be clear and measurable because there should be some assessments needed

to be done at the end of the lesson to assess how much the students learn. Also,

the learning objectives can let teachers have a better understanding that what

student should know or be able to do at the end of the lesson.

9. How do I create learning experiences that develop the mind as well as the content?

➢ Debate and group discussion on the specific and controversial topics can let

students search more information about that topic. After finishing the research,

students can analyze the information they got and discuss in different perspectives.

Both expressing their thoughts and listening to others can benefit from the

discussion.
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10. How do I communicate to students that what we’re doing is important, that they can do

it well, and that I won’t give up on them?

➢ Establishing a positive learning environment is very important for students to learn

at school so that they can feel safe to make a wrong decision. Students can learn

from their errors. They should know they can have multiple opportunities to trials

and errors and teacher is always supporting them.

11. How do I build good personal relationships with students and make them feel truly

known and valued?

➢ Having a positive communication and always being reachable can build good

relationship with students. Also, when I communicate with them, I can hear what

they are thinking about and I can give them response so that they can feel I’m

really listening to them.

12. How do I build a climate of inclusion, risk-taking, and personal efficacy?

➢ I can post some positive sentence on the wall to remind students that this is a

respectful place and we have to talk nice and respectfully. Students can choose the

activities’ different level, like beginner level, advanced level, or expert level.

While students choosing different level, it represents their level and their intention

to take risk.
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13. What do I need to know about my curriculum?

➢ New Jersey Students Learning Standards

➢ Scope and sequence

➢ Learning objectives

➢ Assessment methods

14. How should I frame objectives so they precisely guide my planning and are on-target

for my students’ learning?

➢ The learning objectives should be measurable and specific so that teachers can

assess students’ performance easily. Also, use action verb so that teacher can

assess their performance more concrete like what behavior the students have to

show that they master the skill that taught in the lesson.

15. How do I plan lessons that will reach all my students?

➢ Knowing the students’ learning styles, strengths and weaknesses.

➢ Using differentiated instructions.

➢ Collaborative learning.

➢ Be flexible because there are different students having different zone of proximal

development. Some of them may need more assistance or hands-on experiences

to master the concept.

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16. What choices do I have for differentiating learning experiences?

➢ Create different levels of assignments.

➢ Different learning materials, such as visual, texts, videos, or auditory.

➢ Different learning stations so that students can focus on one subject at one time,

like literacy station, science station, math station, writing station, and so on.

➢ Seating plan can also useful because some students who have better understanding

can sit next to the students who needs more assistance.

17. How can I use assessment to inform instruction and improve student performance?

➢ There should be different ways to assess students’ performance, such as formative

and informative assessment.

➢ I should monitor students’ progress over time so that I can keep track of their

progress and give assistance if needed.

18. How do my personal passions show up in a “test-driven” world?

➢ In some boring topics, I can create some interesting way for students to learn, such

as doing group projects or having debate instead of giving them a test and exam.

➢ Share my personal examples when the topic is related to my previous experience

to help students know more about me, as well as the content of that topic.