As I decided upon a place to do my field experience, I decided that there was no better place to do so then at my high school. Seneca Valley High School is where I attended my secondary education. My major is secondary education in the area of social science so I decided that I would attend a 12th grade history class taught by one of my former teachers Mr. Mike Latera. The class that he teaches is American History.
             The first thing that I observed as I entered the classroom was how it was physically organized. Strangely to me his desk was set in the back of the room with all of the desks facing away from it. The desks were arranged in five rows with six desks in each row. All the rows faced the front of the room where the chalkboard reached across the room with the left side of the room being all tinted windows with a view of trees and the football field. At the back of the room there was a bookcase full of books ranging from the Civil War, to Vietnam and many other Historical books.
             Mr. Latera is a teacher that likes to move around a lot when he teaches. He started at the front of the room and moved a lot from side to side and used his hands when he was not writing on the board. I feel that his mobility caused the students to focus on him because they had to know where he was. There was no movement up and down the aisles. The reason that I liked Mr. Latera in high school was that he was very vocal. He is a very enthusiastic teacher. Most of his lesson was done on the chalkboard with the use of notes. The lecture notes were kept simple for the students to elaborate on them further themselves. They were done on the board in an outline form.
             This being a class full of seniors in high school they were permitted to dismiss themselves from class to use the restroom with the use of a hallway pass which was placed at the front of the room on the edge of the chalkboard. When a student did leave the classroom it did not stop or
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