Classroom Arrangement

Upon arriving into the classroom for my field observation I instantly knew it wasn’t an English or reading class. The walls were covered in United States history material. The first thing I looked for was the teacher’s desk and it was located in the upper left hand corner or the northwest part of the classroom. Along the teachers desk there was a podium for the teachers use. The teacher sat behind the desk waiting for the students to arrive. The teacher rarely spend any time along the desk however because only important papers where there.

The students’ desks where scattered around the classroom and where in vertical rolls all facing the chalkboard and the Smart Board. No two desks were ever right beside each other because all the work was conducted on an individual basis.The class had two storage units that was nailed into the walls and ran on the right side of the classroom. The storage unites were cabinets and storage units containing materials for the class that takes place during the regular school year and not the summer session. On the north side of the class the wall was covered with a white board. The white board was what used most when the teacher had a lesson. She used a document machine or an ELMO machine to reflect the material used for that lesson. This machine was located in the middle of the class where she could keep an eye on her students at all times.On the left side of the room the teacher had a table set up with materials the students need on a daily basis such as their folders, crayons, and scissors. On the side of the table there was a bookshelf that was used by the students to select the book they would use all throughout summer school.

The class didn’t have any centers of specific areas of study and it didn’t have any computers. As an observer I can tell that the teacher doesn’t really have a focus on what the classroom looks like for the students engagement because it’s a summer class; however, I know if I would of gone during the school year it would have been a different story.