Sometimes it can become hard to maintain a professional atmosphere when in the classroom as students become so excited and attached to you that every time they see you they want to hug you and talk to you and leave the lessons but being able to keep a professional attitude and tell the kids to "stay on task" or "it's not time for that right now" is a skill that you will need to acquire sometime in your teaching career. For me this concept is pretty easy. There is a time and place for everything and there will be a time for you to receive a hug from a student and to have chats with them but in the middle of a lesson or activity is certainly not the case. If the student approaches you to talk or hug in a lesson then simply saying "not is not the time. You need to watch mrs./ms./mr. _________!" is not making it a huge problem and letting the kids know in a kind way. Don't exaggerate if the child does this and don't get upset or angry if it does happen. Just simply tell them no and move on.
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In my first grade class I have come to known the students very well and have become especially close to a certain student who might not essentially have a learning disability by is just slower or has to work harder to get place value and subtracting answer then the other children in the class. As I have come to know that this student has trouble naming numbers after 10 I have been using way to help her like objects such as cubes or dots to help her visually see how we need to not always count off of our fingers but instead count the dots or tally marks or even the number line on their desk. To help with place value we, my teacher and I, came up with a game that gets the kids to visually and actively participate in building the tens and ones of place value. We then had them write the number on their desk so they can practice writing and also have fun because they NEVER write on their desk so they had a good time doing that. Even the students who needed extra help were helped by their peers and other students such as myself and kids from the PALS program.
A big controversy in the classroom is the use of technology, should we adapt to the new ways or should we keep with the old tradition? I think Lisa Nielsen emphasizes the importance of technology when she says, "Using technology, students are still learning to think for themselves and along with others, but they’re also learning in ways they couldn’t before. In English class, students are no longer just handing work in to an audience of one: the teacher. They are publishing work for the world to see on digital platforms. In science classrooms, technology allows students to do virtual dissections and gain access to world-class resources and experts, like astronauts from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration who participate in the Teaching From Space program. In math class, all students no longer have to be working on the same problem at the same time. Instead, they can view individually appropriate videos, which they can re-watch, slow down or fast forward, and take assessments to show what they know, when they are ready." But one thing that Lisa didn't talk about that I think is a major role in the use of technology in the classroom is if the kids are using it to an advantage. Technology is the sense that kids can use it to watch helpful videos on the lesson and practice from a form of Quizlet or Kahoot is great but there is the chance that by allowing technology it can open the door to kids learning how to cheat and find answers without actually knowing how to find the answer on there own. Most elementary schools use technology in a respectful way by showing videos and exercises that can allow children to open up there knowledge and experience with different ways to learn but in high school I have noticed that students are becoming a lot more aware of how to find answer keys and test answers on the internet and I feel like ever since we received laptops and have been given a lot more technology in the classroom that most of my peers don't actually know how to calculate the pythagorean theorem but instead just look up the answer by one click of the finger on a search engine. We need to make sure that the ways we choose to add technology to our classrooms is helping to further the students' education and making sure that we aren't replacing teachers with computers. **Click the Class Dojo picture to go directly to the class dojo website** Class dojo is a great way to get the kids to be involved with the teacher and for parents to stay to stay in contact with the parents.
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AuthorI am a Junior this year in the Ready, Set, Teach program at my school learning how to become a future teacher. Archives
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