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Sabrina Najera Roster #19

EDU 201

4 December 2019

Field Observation Assignment #2

My field observation was at William K. Moore Elementary School. The school is located

in the Sunrise area. It is a Hispanic dominated area except for a few African Americans and

Caucasians. It is a small school with few rooms and portables. The location of the class I

observed is on the east side of the campus. There are more students in the class than the desks. I

would add more desks for those students who do not sit at one. The low desk and the yoga balls

should be eliminated. It can add more room for the extra desks. The bean bags can be moved by

the bookcase.

The desks are divided to showcase groups. The arrangement helps students communicate

with their desk mates and create bonds that will make group projects fun. There are a few aisles

that are easily accessible to move and walk around the area. Since the students are small, the

traffic would not be a heavy area to walk. The teacher walks around the class so every student

can view and hear. The teacher provides paper in front of the class if the students need it. There

are also pencil boxes that include markers, crayons, colored pencils, and erasers on each group of

desks. The boxes are readily accessible to students who need any of the following. The teacher

uses the Elmo for viewing of videos or other lessons on paper. The whiteboard is used to

showcase the simplified lesson plan to the students.

The strengths are having aisles in the classroom to walk around to each student. Another

strength is having bean bags. The students can sit down and relax while reading or playing

educational games. The weakness is the computers in the class. The computers are not used, and
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it does not work, so there is no point in having a useless load. Classroom rearrangements are

crucial in student's structure in learning. For now, it seems the students are exceptional with the

structure.

There are over 30 students in the class. It is a 3rd-grade level class, so they are eight and

nine-year-olds. There are more boys than girls. Some students do not talk in class. Even though

their names are called, or they are at lunch, those students stay quiet and do not interact unless

the teacher says it. The students who raise their hands are average intelligence students. The

teacher informed me about who is in special education and the gate program. Surprisingly, those

students do not raise their hands often. The students' behavior is different when they sit with their

friends. Other than that, the students are good at the back. The teacher tries not to discriminate on

the praise. She wants everyone to be given a gold star, whether they got the answer wrong or

right.

The students at William k. Moore Elementary School lives in apartments, mobile homes,

or small houses. Their parents work all day to provide for the family. Although the situation

sounds clashing, their reactions and personalities are different. They are happy students. Every

student has positive opinions about going to school despite the circumstance.