Course: Practicum 1a

Code: EPC 1403

Observation Task 7: Classroom

management and teacher talk

Prepared by: Fatem Saeed Alshehhi

ID: H00271530
Prepared to: Ms. Hamda Al-awadi
Date of submission: Sunday July 1, 2018
 Observation Task 7: Classroom management and teacher talk
Focus: Classroom Management
Procedure:
1. Record what the teacher says throughout the day. Fill in the table completely
with her exact words.

Beginning and ending the day

teacher arrives
before the pupils
Punctuality at the with pupils
beginning of the lesson after pupils
choose one: learners arrive
all on time
most on time
several late

''This is not first time you come

Teachers response to
punishment late. Today you are very late so you
those who are late. What
will stay in the class during break
does she say?
time.''

- After greeting,'' good morning ladies, how are you?''

Starting the day: - The teacher wrote the objective of learning and the steps of the
What does the teacher lesson on white board.
say? - The teacher took the attendance by distributed the paper to
What does the teacher students to write their name.
do? - The teacher asked the students to show their homework and she
opened the black board to show questions of homework.
Lining up : location Playground
How do the children line outside class the students don’t line up in the collage.
up? Inside class

Teacher instructions for

lining up: What does the ----------
teacher say?
What does the teacher
do?
 Ending the day: - After time is up of class,'' please don't forget to do your homework
What does the teacher and i will check tomorrow if everyone do it or not. Have a nice day.
say? See you tomorrow''.
What does the teacher - The teacher arranged her desk, clean white board and left.
do?
Moving
Moving the children for a - The teacher explains each activity with its instructions to the
students.
new activity.
- The teacher tells student about the time they need for each activity.
What does the teacher
Before the time finishes, "ladies 2 minutes left''.
say?
- the teacher said" time is up, let's do it together''
What does the teacher
- After checking the work with class. She gives them another activity
do? to do it.
- The students follow the teacher instructions but sometimes they try
Moving the children: to don't have a new activity. The teacher tells them that they have
How do they respond? to do more to pass the EmSAT exam so, they enthused again to do
more activity.
Misbehaviour
When a child - Most of the Students' misbehaviors are either they play with their
misbehaved: phone or they talk with their classmates.
What was the learner
doing?
What does the teacher - The teacher tells them about rule of class'' you know that not
say? allowed use the mobile phone in the class. Please put it away or i
What does the teacher will take it''.
do?
- Usually, most of the students respond with first threat and keep
How did the child their phones on handbag. Some students ignore the threat so the
respond? teacher takes their mobile phone. She puts it on her desk and she
returns to them again after ends class.
How does the teacher - The teacher stops in front of student who misbehaving. She seems
stop the children during so serious and tells her to stop to do this again. Then, the student
an activity? stops immediately and she backs to continue her work.

Reflection
1. What worked well and why?
2. What useful tips and strategies did you observe?
 3. What techniques do you think the teacher uses to manage the children and
why?
4. Are there any children in the class with difficult or unusual behavior? How does
the teacher deal with these children?
5. Overall, is the teacher more negative or positive when dealing with management
issues? Why?

Classroom management

The classroom management strategies in the collage are very different what I
observed during pervious teaching practice in the schools, there are many strategies that
the teacher applied to control class such as: naughty corner, positive / negative
reinforcement and punishments. However, in the college, the teacher only depends on
oral conversations to manage the students and class. My MST doesn't use any effective
strategy with Misbehavior so they are repeat the Misbehavior over and over. In my
opinion, the teacher should be more serious with them because they are adult and they
have aware about rules of class.

I think that classroom management differ from children to adults but still the
teachers have to think about what strategies can apply with those adults. If conversations
do not achieve positive results, the teachers need to use punishment and reinforcement.
They can give them extra homework or prevent them from participating in class's
competitions.

In conclusion, I think that the application of the rules in the classroom requires
the skill of the teacher. Teacher should think about how to deal with the students and the
classroom before setting rules. For example, if I teach children I will use positive
reinforcement and negative reinforcement first and I will keep punishment as my last
choice. However, if I teach adults, I will provide them with counsel and use nice
comment to control their behavior.