The most important things I have learned in my classroom observations

In my 5th grade double dosing classroom observations I have learned so much about the extra work a teacher, school, and district can provide to help struggling students find success in the classroom. The Title I program provides so much for our school through the double dosing program, teacher's aides in at least every grade if not every classroom, reading and comprehension programs like RazKids and Waterford, and a lot of other technology to help with different learning needs. Seeing how much the teacher loves his profession affected how well he taught. The teacher that I worked with loves these kids a lot and you can tell by how much he invests in his teaching and caring for his students. I could tell that these children love and respect him. He also made learning interesting to keep his students engaged in what he was teaching.

In the Kindergarten classroom that I observed the most important thing I learned was good classroom management. This teacher was in a constant mode of watching and giving attention to the needs of her classroom. She would use a behavior incentive that would work for a little while, but as soon as she noticed that it wasn't working, she would switch it up and use a different incentive to keep the students on their toes concerning their behavior. I found that it is vital to keep control of a classroom filled with 30, 5-6 year old children. This good management creates an optimal learning environment for the students to not only learn academically, but socially as well. In Kindergarten there are a lot of social norms that the children are still learning and school is a great place for them to learn how to behave with others. It is also a time to learn when is a good time to be silly, to be quiet, to play, to listen, and to work.

In the end, I learned that the investment and love you put into teaching will return ten-fold, good classroom management is essential to the best learning situations, and you will find success in teaching as you learn and grow in areas that will best serve the students you teach.