Lauren Gonzaba

11/6/2014
UTL640E-Haug
Observation 5

Observation 5: Your Cooperating Teacher Back in Action

Time

Teacher Communication/Action

Observed Student Behavior

2:55pm

Meredith notices a student is on their

phone when they should be reading:
Katie, please put you phone away and
open your book.
While Meredith is teaching at the front of
the class, some students in the back are
talking to each other. Meredith
momentarily paused her lesson and asked
the students to please stop [their] side
chatter.
As Meredith walks around the room,
monitoring the students working
individually, she asks those students on
their phones to put their phones away.
Meredith even goes up to the individual
student and tells them quietly, so they do
not get embarrassed.

Katie puts her phone down and starts to

stare at her book. It doesnt look like she is
actually reading.

3:15pm

3:25pm

This group of students stopped talking and

didnt cause a problem for the remainder
of the class. Other students had brief side
chatter later on, but Meredith addressed
them and the students stopped.
Students do put their phones away
momentarily, but they bring them out
again later on in class. Meredith continues
to tell these students to put their phones
away. Students keep the phones facedown on their desks, but they still check
them.

My Comments/Questions
This is the kind of behavior I expect from
students who go to a school with little
restriction on phone use. I expected this
common lack of interest during SSR time.
Does Meredith ever have to raise her
voice with these students? Do they all
respond to being politely asked to stop
talking?

Wasnt there a time when teachers could

take students phones and keep them in
their desk until the end of the period? Has
that time passed?