Tuesday, March 16, 2010
First observation...
My teacher does a good job of getting her classes attention. When she wants to announce something to them and they are busy at work she raises her hand and covers her mouth and everyone else copies her until their is absolute silence. And when a student is acting up or behaving well she has a board with their names on it and they are able to move their names up and down so they can see how they are behaving. Sometimes I notice though that when the students are silent reading they are goofing off or doing something else and it is hard to keep track of that. I hope there is a way for me to learn how to better manage that for when I become a teacher!! Any thoughts or have your teachers done anything that seems to work well? I would really love some input! :)
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Interesting how well children pay attention when seeing just a hand gesture! I remember always wanting to be one of the first to mimic the teacher.
ReplyDeleteI really do like the idea of having a system where the children see where they are in comparison to others: this way, they have an example of how they should be behaving just by looking at the board and seeing where their peers are.
The way which my teacher does this is by having the children move their magnet (a picture of their self) over into the yellow or red zone. Since I've only seen the students in the morning, it's hard to say how long most students stay in the green zone, or how easily -- if ever -- they move back to it. This seems like an excellent strategy to maintaining a classroom