Today while observing the classroom, I noticed that the teacher used a lot of positive reinforcement in her classroom. The type of reinforcement I saw the most of was praise and ignore. When the students were getting ready to move onto the next activity, she would say, “I like the way the zebra table has their journals out and are showing me that are ready to move.” The teacher would ignore the student till the behavior started to disrupt the other students. Then she would say something to the student to get them to stop. I also felt like sometime the teacher would encourage the students’ behavior by laughing at them when they would say something funny about what they were working on. Sometimes the behavior would stop as quickly as it started. Other times, because the teacher laughed, the student would keep going causing more of a disruption. Overall I never saw any major behavior problems. There were times where a student would get up out of their seat without asking or talk without raising their hand. I did like how when the student would blurt out the teacher would tell them, “Sorry but my special teacher ears do not allow me to here you if you hand was not in the air.” This reminded the students about how they were to act in the classroom without calling out a student or embarrassing them. While working in their groups, one group got a little noisy and the teacher gave them a warning about getting to loud. She told them, “This is your warning. The next time I have to talk to you, you will go back to your seats and do the work independently.”
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