Teaching Observation 2

Each teaching observation is an interesting and unique experience. This time I went to Centennial Middle school with Mr. Throckmorton. He also had a student teacher that named
Mr. Curtis. In this class, there was also student assistants to check role and other little tasks. The class that we visited were only seventh graders and I think the helpers were from eighth.

For some reason I thought that technology teachers had similar personalities. I guess I thought that because most of my teachers now and in the past were all similar. But between this teacher and the last one I noticed a big difference. Mr. T is a more reserved person. Very busy and filling life outside class, but he is a lot more quiet. The kids love him and think he is a cool teacher, but the kids say that he does keep them in-line when it is necessary. The kids in this class work together, but separate at times, while the teacher walked around helping the students.

These classes were well behaved for the most part while they were all working on building bridges. There were times when they would get loud or not paying attention to announcements or such and MR. T threatened them with lunch detentions. Mr. T knows how to handle these kids.

One of the differences between this observation and the last one is the age. Mr T. commented that the classes that we would be observing were well behaved because the are 7th graders and they don't think that they are too cool for school yet. Whereas, with the 1st observation it was a mixture of the attitude 8th graders and the normal 7th graders. We'll see if I end up teaching the attitude kids or not. I hope not.