During Day 2 of field experience was not an ordinary day for the students in my classroom. My CT was out sick again and the students had three different substitute teachers throughout the day. The three different teachers were a math specialist that worked at the school, a music teacher that worked at the school, and the STEAM teacher that worked at the school. They were all familiar faces for the students but as the day went on I could see the behaviors and attitudes change throughout the different teachers. One of the most challenging aspects of this was I never got to see how a normal routine schedule works in the classroom because I haven't officially met my CT. I jumped in and tried to help the substitute teachers out as much as possible. The substitutes are just going off plans that were left by my CT and they were confused on some things as well. This experience has connected to what I have learned in my EDUC Psychology class because when students feel the teacher frustrated then they feed off that energy and may become frustrated as well. Also, the students were out of their normal routine and when they are out of their normal routine they tend to act out more. Young children like routine and they don't like to be brought off schedule. I understand that no one really had control over this situation because the substitute teachers were all last minute decisions. Now I know when I'm in my own classroom, I will make sure to leave detailed lesson plans that will make sense to whoever is substituting for me. It was hard for me to find out what was happening at the very last minute but I know I need to work on going with the flow because in reality this is what happens and when I become a teacher this may happen to me. I need to make sure I am ready for any curveball they are going to throw at me.
This is the students morning warm ups.
Rachel,
ReplyDeleteI think it's awesome that you took it upon yourself to jump right in and try to figure out how to best help the students. I think that whenever there a sub the students will have a hard time adjusting but since they were faces the students knew it made it easier. Seeing first hand how hard it can be for someone to read off of someone else's lesson plan makes us realize why it's important to learn the formatting we do so we can have detailed lesson plans for them if we're ever in this situation. I think it's hard never having gone through the daily routine with the CT but I know you will be able to manage it just fine!
Hi Rachel!
ReplyDeleteI agree that the students will feed off of the atmosphere of the classroom and the teacher. The students can tell that their routines are thrown off therefore it throws their whole day off. I am happy that you are experiencing how flexible and how much things change in the day of a teacher! This is good to see in a classroom and learn from different techniques you see different teachers implement. It is good that you get to see the different lesson plans that teachers leave substitutes and see them being taught in the classroom.