Classroom Observation In Education

For my classroom observations project, I visited Borinquen Bilingual School & Sport Development Center, Inc. (BBS). It is located at the 467 St. K-2.0 in the Borinquen ward in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. It is a rural area with many greenery that surrounds the school and in the school also. The school level originally went from Pre-kinder through sixth grade, nonetheless, this 2015-2016 school year, BBS has its first ever seventh grade class. The school administration plans to keep expanding until ninth grade, making the school and elementary and junior high school. It is a very large school, having two or three classes of each grade. It holds approximately 560 students in total. Because it is a bilingual school, each teacher has to have had an

The teacher writes a random word on the chalkboard in a vertical manner, then students write a word that begins with the letter of the acrostic word. This technique can be used as a game. The teacher can divide the class into two groups: A or B, boys or girls, etc. Then the teacher chooses a volunteer who, with a dictionary, selects two words to write on the chalkboard. One player from each team steps up to the chalkboard to fill in the acrostics. The fastest player who completes the acrostic and spells each and every word correctly will win a point for their team. As the game progresses, the person in charge of choosing the words from the dictionary may choose a more challenging word every time, with teacher supervision and suitable for the grade level, in this case third

In third grade, children know already how to form simple sentences. Now, by learning how to form compound sentences, they can strengthen their writing skills, but also their communication skills. To do this, teachers use two different containers. In one container, teachers put simple sentences on strips of paper of one color. In the second container, teachers put conjunctions on strips of paper of another color different than the one for the simple sentences. Then students come up front and pick two simple sentences and one conjunction. As a group discussion, the students along with the teacher can discuss if the compound sentence makes sense or why it does not make sense. This can also be a laugh-inducing activity because sometimes the sentences could not make sense or they could be funny by nature, so teachers must be able to have group control in order to prevent the activity from getting out of hand. To keep students practicing writing, I, as a teacher, I would provide fill-in stories every special holidays, such as Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, for students to write. These stories may have a historical background. This way, children also receive a mini history lesson as well as the writing practice. For example, if the students are writing a fill-in about Thanksgiving, they could create a story about the Pilgrims and the Mayflower.

As an integration to the writing class, a teacher could ¨publish¨