To be a teacher one must understand who her students are and the way her students learn this is called the knowledge of learners learning. The teacher I observed knew who her students were. The teacher knew all for students’ names. When the teacher was teaching how to differentiate between a fact and an opinion, she knew which student to call on asking him, “Are the Dallas Cowboys the greatest football team in the country?” The teacher called on male student that she knew loved the Eagles football team.

As I heard many of times in my educational psychology class people are not tape recorders. To understand something new people interpret what they have heard, experienced, or read, and relate it to what they already know (Eggen and Kauchak, 2004). The teacher that I observed obviously knew this because she did not lecture most of the class time. The teacher had the class work as a whole, or she had the class work independently. People learn in many different ways. The teacher measured her students’ cognitive development when she gave the children assessments, and she checked their journals. She looked to see whether each student did well, fair, or poor on the assessments. She paid attention to whether or not a student was improving, and she gave each student feedback. To measure the children's social and moral development she paid attention to children’s’ behavior at recess. She would tell each student when he or she was misbehaving. I do not think that the teacher paid much attention to her students’ physical development, unless I was just not able to see that she did.

I observed the fifth grade teacher at work with her students. I have learned that teaching is very hard, and I saw how one action could relate to every one of knowledge bases. Even though being a teacher is more difficult than I expected, I still hope to be one.

Knowledge of Subject Matter and Subject Specific Pedagogy

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