Observation 2
Background: student writing an observation an interaction of a four year old that he/she observed in a preschool environment.
The coach and the student seemed to be comfortable with each other and they have worked together before. The setting was in the front room and not at a table. The coach asked the student to read her observation out loud and had to several time ask the student to speak up. The student wrote her observation on his/her laptop. The student had to try and balance the laptop on the arm rest of the chair while the coach was leaning over to see the screen. The coach was sitting with her elbow on the are rest and her chin in her palm, with her fingers curled to her face. The student started to ask if the coach was tiered but the coach replied no. The student continues to read what laptop was on his/her while the coach tried to listen. I saw the coach be distracted by the phone ringing and people walking by the window. When the student picked up on a problem with her observation the coach helped his/her make the correction (grammar). Then the student started to read and the coaches’ eyes closed. The student looked up and said are you sure you’re not tiered and the coach replied no again just listening to you read. The student continued and there was a flow problem with the next paragraph that neither the coach nor the student picked up on. I wanted to say something but couldn’t. The next few line the coach did pick up on another mistake and asked the student to read it again. The student did and still did not pick up on the problem. The coach said come on you know this and told the student to give it one more try. The student did but still did not see the problem. The coach asked me if I could tell where the problem was , but I also did not pick it up, since I could not see the laptop from where I was sitting. The coach then said see how you are pausing when you read the sentence between this word and that what does that tell you> the student thought about it for a few seconds and said I don’t know. The coach then tapped the student on the shoulder and said you need a comma there. The two laughed and the student said see that’s why I come here. The student move around in his/her sits and started to read again. The coach tried to see what was on the laptop but couldn’t because the student moved and the glare from the lights where effecting the coaches vision. The coach didn’t ask the student to move back so they could see instead the coach just closed their eyes again. I was wondering how the coach was going to pick up another comma or spelling mistake if they couldn’t see. The phone rings again for the fourth time and the coach perks up and moves the laptop so she could see. I know that they are friendly but the coach might have asked instead of just grabbing it. Then a few more errors were picked up and the observation was complete. The student then tells the coach a story about why he/she always wants to work with this coach. They talk about the coaches’ name and how if the student would have had a child their child would have this coach’s name. Then they talk about how they both lost their mothers to diabetes and how they need to work together to get healthy. Once the proof read was over the two became very chatty and animated, it did not seem like the same two people 20 min. before.
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