Teacher Observation
Unlike your “classroom observation” where you observed the classroom “environment”, this observation will provide you with an opportunity to observe how the teacher(s) interact with the children. You will be observing a pre-k classroom and write a summary on what you observed between the teacher and child.
Review your textbook, notes and class discussions to identify 10 concepts you want to observe. Be prepared to discuss why these are important concepts.
**Remember, the concepts must focus on “teacher-child interaction”
Please list your ten concepts below (be specific): you will be writing about each one
1. Patient
2. Praise their work
3. Words of encouragement
4. Comforting
5. Building trust
6. Open minded
7. Interacting with the children
8. Positive attitude
9. Allowing them to decompress
10. Good listener
In your “write-up” of this observation, please provide the following (on a separate sheet of paper, typed, double spaced).
1. Introduction: provide some general information to describe the observation setting, number of children, number of teachers, activities going on, etc.
2. Write up a “summary” of your observation. In your summary, please tell how you saw each of the above terms illustrated.
In your summary, put each concept in its own section with an underlined heading.
Provide documentation from the text and/or other course reading to support why these concepts are important to observe (provide APA citations).
3. Provide a brief “conclusion” in which you state your overall impression of the teacher-child interactions, suggestions, concerns, etc. Also, discuss how doing this observation will influence your own teaching/interactions with children (be very specific).
GRADING RUBRIC
Introduction
In the introduction, the student provides basic information about the overall observation, including an overall summary of any videos that were viewed.
The introduction provides an overview/purpose of the rest of the paper.
The student discusses 10 or more teacher attributes or concepts. The student presents their observation findings in detail and consistently provides detailed, relevant examples.
In addition, the student uses one required citation for each concept from the text or other college-level source or more.
Student discuss their overall impression of this assignment and address all required prompts from the assignment guidelines in detail.
The paper is clearly proofread and edited, with few or no spelling, grammatical, or formatting mistakes. In-text citations and an APA formatted title page and reference page are included.