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This past week was my last week at the high school. It was a bittersweet week. I feel that I learned a lot by being here. But I didn’t develop the relationships with students like I did at the elementary level. This could have been because I was assigned a student to work with at the elementary school and got to know him. I think at the younger age they do a lot more hands on and one on one with them. With the high school they do more group things. I will have to wait till I student teach to be sure but I think I have decided to work with the elementary students.
Inclusion
Today im going to go to Mrs. Z’s classroom. I am going to focus on the relationship between her and the sped teacher.
A few weeks ago I saw the tax given in the life skills classroom and that was interesting. The sped teacher has to make it up and give it to the student. Since I know that every student has to take it now I didn’t know how they did it in that classroom since everyone in on such a different level. Ms. Mesa told me that the student has to pass it. If the student doesn’t pass it then the teacher is not doing something right. The student has to keep taking the test until the pass it. I know I saw it a few weeks ago but I still wanted to write about it. Since it was so different. The teacher has to make a test for each student on there own level.
This week.
Not a whole lot has happened this week. I saw a world history inclusion class. And the reg. ed. teacher and sped. teacher didn’t seem to be working together. The sped teacher was more like an aid. I would not mind being an inclusion teacher, but this is one of the reason I don’t what to be. I want to be more then an aid in someone classroom. I know that takes time and gaining trust. But how long does that take a year? Guess I will just stick to being a lifeskills teacher.
Singing Teacher.
I have observed in her class before. I found some of the things that she said interesing. About how she is very hard on herself this first year. And how she came about singing to her students. As a first year teacher I dont think I will be as hard on myself as she is. I am not one to dwell on the mistakes I make(if thats what she ment by it). I learn from it and move on. Being that I will be a lifeskills teacher im not sure what action I will take to for disiplin, but I could sing to them for encouagement. I dont think for that population they will understand why im sing to them for behavior problems.
The singing teacher.
Describe-
Last week I observed a inclusion reading class. During the 10 minute warm up a student asked a if he could ask a question about something that they had talked about the day before. The teacher said if its quick he could. The student asked a question about the holocaust. The teacher then said thats not a quick question, they would talk about it during free time. Well the student keep asking then so other students said they wanted to know also. The teacher then said “we are getting off task, im going to start singing if you don’t get back on task.” I could tell that this was a regular thing with her class, because judging from there response she cant sing and they don’t like it when she does. The teacher sang for about 20 seconds, they students complained then they got back on task.
Analyze-
She reason that she start to sing was because they were getting of task and thats her way of getting them back on task.
Reflection-
If you have build a kind of rapport with your students like she has then I think this a great idea. To either sing or play a song that will get there attentoin back to what you are doing. I will try not to have them get off task in the first place though. But I do like the idea of doing something fun like this to bring them back then getting mad. This would be my first choice and if they didnt work then you would have to get mad. But I hope that I never get that point.
ELL
Description- When I walked into the cafeteria the students were not there yet. I didnt know what to expect I wasn’t nervous, I did grow up in Brownsville, TX. I was hopeful that it would go well. And it went fine I showed her my me poster. Talk about about family and where she came from. I learned that she has 3 sisters and a step brother. And that she has a new puppy.
Analysis- She was shocked that I was 25 years old and didn’t have any children. Then told me that one of the other ELL students who is 16 has a 1 year old. And that one of her other friends also has a kid. She also told me that her mother had her at a very young age. I guess this is a cultural thing? I don’t remember this from when I lived in Brownsville. It makes me sad to see children having children.When she asked me why I didn’t have any children I told her the truth I feel that I am not emotionally ready for a child. They are a lot of responsibility and they cost A LOT! Then I wanted to say the words birth control over and over and over again. But I didn’t.
Reflection- I am not sure how I will handle this in the future. I will always be open to talk to my students about any problems they are having and take the right measure from them to talk to the right professonals. I will let my students know from the beginning that I have an open door policy. I know that I will not alway agree with there desisions, but I will do my best to be supportive with what they deside. Anless of course it something that legal or along those lines.
Feedback.
Monday February the 2nd Mr. Barry came to block and talked to us about giving feedback. He had the class do this activity where he sent John (a classmate) outside. While he that person was outside took the rest of the class and put us into four groups. One group was no feedback. The second group was all good feedback. The third was nothing but bad feedback and the fourth was the right kind of feedback. John came back inside, Mr. Barry had him sit in a seat with a bucket a tennis balls in front of him and a empty bucket behind him. Then John was told to take a tennis ball and throw it behind him and try and make it in the the empty bucket. He kept asking the first group how he was doing and they never did say anything. The next group was the nothing but good feedback group. The next group was nothing but bad feedback which was the group I was in. At one point John made a ball in the empty bucket and we still told him that he did a bad job. The last group was the right kind of feedback. They told him what he need to to do to make it in. It helped because he made it in.
I learned that its good to give positive feedback. Its also good to give feedback that will help that person suceed in the future or do better. Its also very important on how you phrase when giving the feedback. If you start it by saying I really like what you wrote but, blah blah blah. The person that you are talking to will stop listening and everything you have to say they wont hear. You could say I like what you wrote and here you need to tweak this. They will take into consideration what you have to say.
In the future when I am a teacher I will definitely use this approach. I feel that you will get more across when trying to help them. Even thought you are trying to help then when you use the word “but” it comes aross negative. I will try to use this in my relastionships now. So when I do become a teacher one day I will already have been doing it so it will come natural to me.
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