My Observation Of Ms. Page's Class At Renaissance Charter School

Malcolm X states, “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” What he says is extremely wise because it is true. In order to, get to the future one must learn and gain experience because with every day there is a new tomorrow. I gained experience and knowledge while observing Ms. Page’s class at Renaissance Charter school at Chickasaw. I learned about the importance of student-teacher interaction, classroom arrangement and setting, classroom management, technology integration, and administration-teacher interaction. All while learning information about how teachers display student work and educational materials, develop their teaching styles, use diversity and incorporate media.

I remember my first-time walking into Renaissance charter school before working with 4th grade. I was so nervous but extremely excited and unsure what to expect. When I

Page’s class it was a school wide thing. Page and I discussed how the administration was pushing the importance of technology integration in instructional methods. The class would use tablets and computers a lot to test their knowledge because of the importance of lexia, reading plus, and magic math. She would ask the class what they know already about a subject, to review a little bit, then she would teach them and work on the issues they had with the topic and lesson for the subject and she would assign them some work. After the students would work they would be told to grab a tablet and work on Lexia, Reading Plus or something of that sort. I really enjoyed working with Ms. Page’s Class and even though I have already completed my 15 hours I plan on continuing working with her. Ms. Page is an extraordinary teacher and providing me with lots of insight of what it is really like to be a teacher as well as, provide me with important information needed to complete this paper and much