Thursday, February 27, 2020
Week 6- Classroom structure
My CT was out for 3 days so today was more of a laid back day. There were no lesson plans implemented for the day, my CT yet again did not follow our daily schedule. The majority of our day consisted of making floats for their Mardi Gras day next week and then the students had a silent party in the afternoon for all of the kids who did not receive a referral. I was paying attention to the classroom structure today and how the students were acting among one another since their was nothing being taught. The classroom is broken down into three different rows and the first row has the students who need the most attention or cause the most disruption. There were two students who had new seats today that were separated from the three rows because of their misbehavior. Honestly as I watched the two children today, their behavior seemed to be worse because they were yelling at other students across the room. I sat by one of the two students in particular and thats when he started to be less disruptive. I have always been taught that the environment is the third eye and that is very true but that is not the only route in order to fix students behavior. My CT was frustrated with the student and wasn't able to understand why he was acting the way he was, but it just took some direct interaction with the student in order for the behavior to subside. I found out from the student that some things were going on his home life simply by just talking to him and it made sense why he was misbehaving. As teachers we all need to dig deeper and try different teaching strategies or techniques for our students with misbehavior because its most likely something that can be altered once the problem is figured out. Attached is a picture of the desk structure in the room.
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The environment truly is the third eye in the classroom because it usually creates the tone for the students’ behavior. It’s quite unfortunate to hear that there can be more done to address certain behaviors. As well, we must also put ourselves in the shoes of our CTs and other teachers; they may have tried many things and seem stuck and can’t find a way to address certain behaviors.
ReplyDeleteAllison I like how you took it upon yourself to sit next to that student and learn about what was going on personally. Sometimes we can get so involved in following a lesson that we can forget to take a few minutes and simply ask about their personal lives. I think her separating the students before taking the time to speak with each of them about the issues they were having or what was causing them to act that way only made it worse. I do like how she put the students who need the most attention and are most disruptive in the first row because they know the teacher is able to see what they are doing and that if they are not following along or following the rules they will get in trouble. This is something you can carry into your classroom and it's great that you got to experience something like this.
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