Jacob Classroom Observation

Jacob is freshman working towards a standard diploma. Jacob had fit right in with his first year of high school by creating a strong positive relationship with his peers. He likes peer group and is eager to assist his peers in any classwork. Once he establishes a positive relationship with all of his peers and his teacher’s, he is enthusiastic to participate in whole classroom discussions. Jacob is a caring and friendly student when it comes to working with his classmates. He usually tends to joke around with his classmates because of his witty sense of humor. He has a helping hand to provide his knowledge of content to other students. When completing the personal strengths assessment, Jacob mentioned that he works well with peers and likes group work but has difficulty if someone as a question for him. Jacob has a strong connection to history and social studies because he enjoys learning about wars and medieval times. Jacob is not enrolled in history this semester but is excited to start world history in next year. Jacob is a huge gamer and
This class will transition into English 9 next semester. He currently has an 81% in the class. Jacob struggles with writing organization, structure, and mechanics. He needs assistance to help him organize this thoughts and ideas for his writing. Jacob is reading below grade level and struggles with decoding and fluency of text. His comprehension of text skills is a lot stronger. Jacobs reading comprehension is excellent when he reads books on his independent reading level and when books are read aloud to him. He has a high interest in books like comics, war books, and funny stories. When Jacob enjoys the text and it’s on his reading level, he is able to retain specific details from the text. He can make connections to the text if he is interested with the topic of the book. Jacob is starting to slow down when reading and make connections so that he can build his comprehension