Classroom Observation - Troublemakers

 In my opinion, the students are NOT the troublemakers in my observational classroom. The teacher in the classroom will attack her students when they are trying to learn and when they are struggling with the material. She does not clearly understand when the students are having a hard time because when she collects homework and sees some who haven't completed it, she just yells at them instead of helping them further and yells at them more during lesson time when they do not know an answer to a question. The student I work with refuses to ask the teacher for help because "She will just yell at me."

Okay, I am not there every day. I do not see what goes on every day in her classroom and how her students behave every day. That is not the point of me going there because if I did, maybe I would notice who the troublemakers are. I know that, yes, there are troublemakers. I think one troublemaker in the classroom is G. G. is a light-skinned boy who has a big afro, sweet child eyes, a pouted lip, and anger issues. Last week, when I observed, G was stabbing his dry-erase marker eraser with his pencil and breaking his pencils in half. This was during their work time, where the students were either in a group with the main teacher, the student aid, or by themselves. G. wanted to work by himself but was getting frustrated because he did not understand it. he refused to work with either teacher, so instead, my student tried to help him with his work. That goes to show he doesn't trust his teacher. It is very sad. This student is struggling silently, and his teacher does notice but doesn't care. I do not like her, and I feel bad for her students. 

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