Jordan Going

Elementary (High School) Observation Report

On Wednesday, May 17, 2017, I observed an eleventh-grade student named Sarah at

Sugar-Salem High School. Sarah was in the resource room in an Economics lesson while I
observed her. When I started observing, the lesson had just started a few minutes prior. As I
started observing, Sarah had head her down as her teacher was teaching/lecturing. A few minutes
later she began playing with her hair; This happened again throughout the lesson as well. When
Sarahs teacher asked her and her classmates a question, Sarah immediately looked at her
classmates and repeated the answer that they gave to the teacher. This happened two times in a
row. Then, Sarah started sketching in her notebook while her teacher continued the lesson. When
Sarahs teacher gave instructions of something for them to write in their notes, Sarah spoke for
the first time since I had started the observation and asked her teacher to repeat the instructions
again, which the teacher did do. However after this, Sarah looked over at her classmates
notebooks for approximately thirty seconds and watched them write. Then, Sarah began slowly
writing. A few minutes later as Sarahs teacher asked the class to share what they have written,
Sarah put and kept her head down, and pulled up her notebook to face her body instead of lying
flat on the table.

As Sarah did not make eye contact with her teacher throughout the lesson, she played
with her hair and sketched with her notebook, she was not fully engaged in the lesson, and thus
was not academically on track to succeed in the lesson. Sarah also continued to not make eye
contact and participate in the lesson as she put her head down and lifted her notebook to a
position where no one could see it when she knew her teacher was calling on students. Because
the lesson taught during the time I observed was an Economics lesson, Sarah did not meet any of
the four academic domains: Reading, Writing, Oral Language, and Math. Academically, Sarah is
not on track to master the content being taught to her.