Term 2 week2/3

Highlights

I sadly had to leave the year four class I had been in for five weeks and move into a year three class. This is always good to see other teaching styles and different children to work with. The first two weeks in this class has been great and I have seen a different style and different techniques used in the class room. The teacher uses a good weekly system of all sorts of different jobs and the children do them well and are learning some self management skills. This class is doing folk dancing which is really good to see and take part in as I haven't had any experience in dancing.

Challenges

The main challenge for me was completing a running record of my focus student for my 5.01 assignment. This was a challenge because it was my first attempt of doing this and I am confident in how to do this but my speed is slow at this stage. I know with more practice and time I will get faster and more confident.

Learnt

The best part of these two weeks was being invited to a staff meeting that had four teachers performing two different presentations. I really enjoyed these and took lots away with me. The presentations were on getting passive learners involved and how to teach fractions. The teachers had done a lot of research and the half an hour presentations were first class. 

Term 2 week 1

Highlights

It was good to be back at school and in the class room. These two days I was back in the class I finished the term in which was a year 4 class. The big highlight was getting a chance on Wednesday to start the class by myself which is great practice with practicum coming very quickly. I got more experience and practice with taking maths and reading groups also got to help some pieces of writing the children were doing about their holidays. My base class teacher takes singing on a Tuesday afternoon which is good experience and a chance to observe some music. 

Challenges

The big challenge for me was on the Wednesday and starting the class, it was difficult to settle the class down and need to keep working at being a bit tougher and using some different strategies to get the children to settle quicker. It is also difficult at times to complete my weekly tasks as it is very busy at SBL and the teacher I was with was awesome and gave me a lot of opportunity to try things in teaching the children

Learnt

On Wednesday the fire alarm bell went off and I got to see the fire procedure and what that teacher uses. The teacher used a number system where all the children said their number when it was up to their number. I thought this was a quick and efficient system but there was a little hick up with two of the children forgot their number. I explained in the challenges about starting the class and working n strategies to settle the class down I am still learning and working on this.