OBSERVATION PAPER

Observation Paper

Observation Paper

Introduction

Observation: Class room Sequoia Rodgers Park Montessori school grade forth. This is a new class room to the school so its just ten children for this year next year these children will be with third graders as well. Each classroom is a multi age. This class room has only Caucasian students. The teacher explained to me that these children are only third graders, because this school is expanding they just opened this classroom up and as these children get older they will stay in this room with these teachers but new students will come in to fill up the 9 -12 gap.

Behavioral Description

Ten children in the class room six girls and three boys this morning. Most of the children are sitting on the floor doing their work. The girls are on the floor. One boy is working at the desk.

In the class room the chairs are adult and older child size. The tables are both round and rectangle. There is no specific format to the class room there is a rug in the central part of the class room with a world map . All the shelves in the class room are at the appropriate height for all children at this age level. There is nothing that is over three feet tall. All the chairs are made of blue plastic. All the academic material are Montessori materials and the children are working on math projects.

There is one girl on the rug working by herself. She is interacting with beads there are three different colors of beads red blue and green they are all placed in clear rectangular containers so the child can see the amount of beads in one container.

Each child is working on a work mat. The young girl is done with her work project and she decides to put them away. She puts the pieces to the bead activity back to in a box, she gets off the floor and places the bead object on the shelf. There are two teachers in this classroom.

One teacher is on the rug with the children working with math problems she has a small dry erase boards to work with the children one on one. The other teacher is at the computer working. Some of the children are interested in what she is doing at the computer about four to five students gather around her desk which is at the back of the classroom. She explains to them what she is doing on the computer, I cant hear what they are saying, but the children are asking her questions.

Summary

'Behavioral assessment is a misunderstood term that has been defined in various ways' (Cone, 1998: 26). In the early days of the discipline, it was common for definitions to rely on contrasts of Behavioral assessment with more psychodynamically oriented clinical assessment. Thus, whereas bhavioral assessment views specific responses of the client as a sample of other, similar Behavior, traditional clinical assessment views them as signs of underlying dispositions or ...