Today, during my observation, I started off in a different classroom. While in that classroom, I noticed that the children really were friendly and kind to each other. They had cute little sayings such as, “can you please project, I would like to hear what you have to say” or “I kindly disagree with your answer and here is why.” Another thing I really liked to see and hear is that the children wanted everyone in the class to participate in the discussion, so one student would say, “we have not heard much from (student’s name) today, would you like to share?” This classroom setting would be a classroom that lends more to Vygotsky style of learning. They worked a lot in groups and partners. They were working on a poem and the first time the teacher read it she read the poem fast. Then she asked the students if they understood anything she had just read. They would talk to the person next to them about what they thought. All of the students found the poem confusing because she read it too fast. She did this to help explain to the students that you do not get much out of a reading if your breeze through it. The next time she read the poem she slowed it down and paused after each stanza. Some of the students seemed to have a real hard time grasping the meaning of the poem. The students were acting silly today and I am sure it is because there were other people observing the class. They definitely had a hard time concentrating on the teacher and the lesson.
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