FieldBlog: Shaker Middle School

In the first classroom that my group observed at Shaker Middle school the teacher had the students working on a project when we walked in. It was a seventh grade class and had about twenty kids in it. Each of the students had a computer to work with. The teacher told us about all of the other projects that she had her students do and it seemed like a lot of fun projects that would create not only productivity in the classroom, but it would also spark a lot of creativity as well. The second classroom we went to was a mix of sixth and seventh graders and had eighteen students in it, they are both relativly small classrooms.The second one had two sides of desks with an isle going down the middle so there was no back of the room. Mrs. Roth was the teacher in this room and she had been teaching for seventeen years. She had the students working i small groups or with partners on a project to write a rap about events that they were working on in the chapter that they were reading. It was a good way to connect the students to subjects that they may not have been interested in while connecting them to something that they already relate to in rap. We were not in either of the classes very long, and in the second classroom there was not much to observe because the students were finishing up a project. She did answer many questions about being a teacher though and she was very helpful.