TRY TO CAPTURE AT LEAST 2 HOURS OF OBSERVATION THROUGHOUT THE 4th WEEK!
[DON’T INCLUDE THESE INSTRUCTIONS IN YOUR REPORT!!!!]
Below is a form that I want you to use as a template for this assignment.
Merely highlight, copy, and paste it into your word processor. Use
the template to write out the assignment. Have the assignment completed
after the 4th week in the field and "highlight-cut-paste" it into the message
window of our Online Discussion Site as your Field #4.Come
back later and React to some one else’s posting later in the week. Also,
I want you to print it out and turn it in when you return to campus
for our Monday class on 3-31-2003.
Assignment
#4:
Your Name:
Date:
Describe the
ages and grade level of the classroom you have been assigned:
School District
and School:
Classroom Grade
Level:
Gender/Sex
of the Teacher:
Approximate
age range of children:
Behavior Setting(s)
Descriptions:
[Include a
brief narrative description of the behavior setting(s)
in which the interactions take place!If
the behavior setting changes, let us know what the new context is within
which the interactions – below – take place.]
For each of
the interaction events that you are able to observe lets focus on:
·Who
initiated
the interaction? (keep track of the sex of the initiator!)
oWhether
it was Verbal or Non-verbal?
oWhat
type of interaction took place?For
example:
§Asking
questions
§Praising
or encouraging
§Accepting
Feelings
§Giving
Directions
§Criticizing
oWhether
it was positive or negative;
·What
was the response
(reaction) (keep track of the sex of the responders!)?
oWhether
it was positive or negative?
oWhether
it was Verbal or Non-verbal?
Try to summarize
your observations with regard to the gender issue. Try to determine whether
boys or girls are interacted with more frequently by the teachers.Do
male or female children initiate interactions more frequently.Do
teachers initiate interactions with boys or girls more frequently.Try
to draw upon content in your McDevitt-Ormrod text as possible explanations
for your observations. When
we return to class we might construct a 2 x 2 table with frequencies in
the cells that might indicate whether male or female teachers interact
more frequently with male or female students.