My Observation At Tesnatee Gap Elementary School

Introduction In this class, we learned about educational psychology. We were also required to complete twenty hours of field experience. In these twenty hours of field experience, I was able to connect what I was learning through the course to what was going on within the classroom. I was able to observe the different psychological aspects within the students as well as how the teacher affected the students’ psychological behaviors. Different behaviors root back to different factors, and I am going to reflect on different situations that occurred during my field experience and relate them to different educational psychology topics that I have learned about through this course.

Tesnatee Gap Elementary School I completed my twenty

The standardized testing that is important in the first grade classes and other grades at Tesnatee Gap Elementary is the MAP test. The MAP test and other standardized test show where the student is compared to where they are supposed to be. It is the goal of the teacher and the school to get every students to the level they are supposed to be at, which can cause some stress. I was able to observe some of that stress during my time in the class. I did my observation hours in March and April. The MAP test are given in April, so I was observing when they were getting ready for the tests and the week of the tests. The MAP test puts a stress on the teachers and students. The stress on the teachers is to teach all the material that is going to be on the test and make sure every students understands how to do it. The stress on the students is learning that material. The problem with this is that some of the material is too difficult for first graders to be learning. For example, first grade teachers are expected to teach the basics of math such as adding and subtracting, but also expected to understand multiplication and some other more difficult math strategies. I did not learn any multiplication until the third grade. In my opinion, there should not be a rush to get to these more difficult concepts. In the article The Views of Teachers on Assessment: A Comparison of Lower and Upper Elementary Teachers, it is stated that because the teachers are teaching the test, it reduces the child’s depth of understanding of the concepts. The article also states that because they are teaching all of the necessary information that is required on the test, teachers have less time to teach each thing the student needs to learn during the school year. When the teachers have to rush to move onto harder concepts than the more basic things they are teaching, it may