Student Observation

I observed a 5th grade male student at the school that I am doing my clinicals at. I noticed that he was not interested in working on his art project. He was up out of his seat, going to other tables and talking to other students. Disrupting the other students cause the class to be rather to loud for what it should have been. The teacher was constantly telling this student to return to his seat and work on him assignment. Once in his seat he would work for a few minutes and then start to get restless. He would stand up or put his feet underneath himself on the chair or simply turn sideways in his chair. He continued doing this through out most of the class period, where he would talk and not be focused and then he would work for a few minutes. The students on the other side of the room were sitting and talking quietly to the other students at the same table, but they continued to work on their assignment. However the other side of the room where the student, who was not focused, were a bit louder and they were not working on their assignment as closely as the other side of the class. The teacher kept having to tell the class to settle down and stop talking as much and work on their project. Towards the end of the class period the student finally got settled down long enough to work on his project. He only got about 10 minutes of drawing and coloring done before the class period ended.