Observations: Cafeteria

Description:

1) One guy was sitting alone on his phone browsing

2) Cafeteria workers were being rude to students

3) A group of girls were dressed very nice. Dresses and heels.

4) A girl was walking really quick with her head down and a plate of food

5) A guy was sitting at a table with his legs resting across the chair seat next to him


Interpretation:

1) He didn't have many friends

2) She was annoyed with having to be at JCU. She had other things she wanted to be doing

3) They were high class.

4) She was a freshman. Intimidated by the cafeteria.

5) He was being lazy and disrespectful.


Parking lot:

1) Lunchtime is his only alone time and he finds it relaxing to not have to be with people and engaged in conversation all the time.

2) She had a rough morning and was tired from the previous days work. Maybe she had another job

3) They were dressed up to attend church or a sorority meeting

4) She is simply shy

5) He is injured from a practice and can't put any pressure on his leg






I realized from this activity that being judgmental and making assumptions about people is a very easy thing to do.   As a teacher this is dangerous because you can not assume a child is feeling or thinking a certain way based on how they are acting.  I really enjoyed the description of the boy and the marker. I think the initial thing to do in this situation was to judge him saying he was making a mess. When it got brought to my attention that he could be discovering what it felt like to have a marker on his skin it was eye opening because he is actually learning and he wasn't doing it just to make a mess.