this was such an awesome week!!!! Mikaila and I are working with one of the greatest teachers ever! We are in a 5th grade classroom and its amazing! The teacher has trained and re-trained her students so well that she has such control and she does it with so much love! We are there in the morning when the students come in. They pull their stick from their attendance sheet and put it in the bucket to show their teacher that they are there. Then they get a squirt of handsanitizer and then they line up in front of the teachers desk and one by one they take turns and the teacher says, "Hello Sam" and Sam says, "Hello Mrs. K" and so on and so forth. Each student feels important. They know their teacher knows they are there and that she is excited to have them in class! Even if a student comes in late they go to her desk and if she meets them there and welcomes them to class! :) I thought that was such a great idea!
My favorite part of teaching this week was when we got to teach our first Social Studies lesson! We taught on explores and had our students pretend they were explores on the sea! Towards the end of our lesson, one of our "crew members" got sea sick and ran to the sink to throw up! We were able to keep the other children focused on their assignment and even relate the experience to what a real explorer would experience on the sea as they traveled! It went very smoothly! :) I just love teaching those little cuties!!!!! :)
The only thing I would really want to change would be to gain a little more respect from the students and teach them not to talk over us as we teach. Our cooperating teacher said we actually had great classroom management! She was very surprised that we were just juniors and had learned such great management techniques! (Thanks Ms. Measom!!!)
To help my students more I am just focusing on getting to know them individually and finding out their personal needs. For example, one of our students just moved her from Brazil and she needs more attention than her classmates.
Overall it was a fantastic week and I am so excited to keep learning and growing while I get to observe and teach these next few weeks! :)
It sounds like your teacher is awesome! The students in my class come in 2 different groups an hour apart and leave an hour apart. Everyday they do morning meeting and greet each other in a different way. I love it, each student is acknowledged and they are learning really great communication skills. Sometimes the greeting is silly but most often it is formal. What your teacher does sounds so great, I am sure he class feels important and that is a great way to start off the day.
ReplyDeleteP.s- I can not believe someone threw up, how sad. It sounds like you handled it really well.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute idea for attendance! I love that she has hand sanitizer as well because there can be so many germs passed around especially as its beginning to get cold! I also really like that the teacher thought that making them feel important was worth the time for them to say hi everyday! I love that she cares so much about her students because I feel like a lot of teachers wouldn't have the time to do that! It's hard when you want to be the students' friends! I have learned that they have a harder time concentrating and not talking when you are supposed to be learning when they think of you as a friend instead of a teacher. They also think that they have extra privileges sometimes which can be hard!
ReplyDeleteI love that your cooperating teacher acknowledges each one of them to make them see that she cares for them.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we have learned so much from Measom. She is so great! I have used a lot of her techniques and have known how to handle situations that came up because of what she taught in her class.
That's awesome! sounds like you had a great week! I love how the teacher greets every student! That make it a lot better on the students knowing she cares. I really enjoyed your seasick student too! ha it must have been a very good lesson for them to even feel seasick themselves! Nice work ladies!
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