Circle Time Observation

For the second ten minute observation, I observed was during the teacher during circle time. They do a 20 minute circle every morning and the children love it. For this observation, I would give the teacher a rating of 5 for responding to social cues. During the circle time, she would ask questions and let the children talk. She would pick on kids with their hands up and allow them to speak and she would also pick on the kids that clearly wanted to talk, where either trying to talk without raising their hands. She would let them talk and then she would tell them that if they wanted to be picked, to raise their hands and she can see that they want to talk as opposed to squirming where they are sitting. There were many more opportunities for

For this observation, I would give the teacher a rating of 7 for responding to social cues. This is because there were many instances where the child would be waking up and all the other kids were sleeping and they wanted the adult’s attention. She would go over talk with them for a little, make sure everything was okay and they didn’t need anything and then help them fall back asleep if they were still tired. There were some children that did not want to sleep so she made sure she went over and kept them entertained as much as she could when the other kids were sleeping. They seemed bored and wanted to play/ do something and the teacher would jump in. I would give the teacher a rating of 7 for responsiveness to emotional cues. This is because there were many children that woke up in distress once the nap time was coming to an end and she would go over and comfort them and make sure they were okay. She would let them relax a little, talk to them, then she would take them to the table to have snack since many of them get very fussy because they are hungry of thirsty. She was very responsive to these cues and during snack time, she would see some child was in distress for a reason such as running out of milk or cookies and would go over to them and tell them to use their words to ask for more of whatever they wanted. I would give the teacher a