Week 3 Student teaching

Week three of student teaching has been highly educational. I've been teaching lessons on rhythm and rhythm notation throughout the week, I have been leading the daily listening and my cooperating teacher has given me some great advice. The biggest takeaway from week three was time management. I now set a timer for all the classwork we do. This gives students an idea of how fast they should accomplish the task and also for me knowing when everyone should be moving on. Another thing I realized is because I have "A" and "B" days in block schedule there is a lot of students I see during the week (125 to be exact) and it is hard to remember all of their names. But this week I have been literally repeating their names over and over and calling every single student by their name as much as possible. When student realize that you know their name without looking at the seating chart they seem to try harder. I'm not 100% on everyone yet but I'm pretty close. my goal is this week is to memorize them all.

Schmidt Chapter 3
1.     From reading chapter three in Schmidt, what have you learned about behavior. Use specific examples from the book and from your student teaching experiences.

After reading chapter 3 I noticed a few different things about behavior during my student teaching experience. I teach 7th an 8th graders and all of the students with behavior issues almost always wear what Schmidt calls camouflage. Most students seem to wear the “I don’t care” or “I don’t want to look like I like learning” camo but there are several students who are class clowns, frequent flyer, bad boys, and charmers. All of these students wear these camouflages to avert their struggles. One thing Schmidt says to “pierce” a camouflage is to find what they are good at and focus on that. I have one student who is a “bad boy” I realized that when he actually has good leadership skills and when you allow him to make decisions for group work or be the first to perform on a project his camouflage disappears. Another thing I learned is be prepared. Having the ability to think on your feet and make quick decisions can help with controlling behavior in the classroom. If you are unprepared or not ready for something to happen and you can lose the class quick and it’s going to be a long day. One other idea that Schmidt points out is that all behavior is motivated by seeking pleasure or avoiding pain. I think keeping that concept in the back of your mind as an educator can be beneficial in finding why a student is behaving the way they are and better assess the situation to ultimately help the students success.

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  1. TrollgeekSeptember 9, 2019 at 9:32 AM

    It's good to hear that you are doing something about time management that seems to work for you. With school schedules the way they are, this is pretty important. You said you have been getting a lot of good advice, like what? What happened to elicit this advice? How have you put the advice into action? What was your goal for last week? How did you do on that?

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