The teacher looks at me as I jotted down a sentence in my observation sheet thinking maybe that I listed all the grammatical errors she committed. I believe she knows what I'm going to write for she has gone to that stage a year before her practice teaching.

Here is a girl who couldn't sacrifice a 40-minute period to shup up her mouth. She spoils the class by indulging herself in chatting with her seatmate. Do I have the nerve to ask her to keep quiet and ask her to listen to what the teacher is explaining? What if I fail?

Here is another girl who is unquestionably silent but doing other things instead. She does not disturb the class but she is traveling around America trying to retrace the footsteps of the American revolutionists in her history subject. But this is an English class. Where is she? Shall I ask her to postpone her trip to the history of the Americas?

Here is a very different personality, the teacher herself, who is standing before the class trying to penetrate into the minds of her pupils through the interpretation of Walt Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!" She recites the poem herself with correct pronunciation and expression. She asks the students their own interpretations and tries to budge the validity of their different opinions. She believes that everyone can have different interpretations and see things differently from others.

Things visible are the only object of my observation today. I could not go further than that except to jot down the visible things I see, the teacher, the attitude of the students and the physical environment.