Today, I was mindful of my classroom management and how it effects the behavior of the kids and their learning. I realize this fine line that if it is the whole class, that I wait for them until I have all set of eyes. I need to stick to a bar and hold my kids accountable to reach this bar. I feel that because I am not handing out Red paws or sticking to the bar, that I am being taken advantage of. I truly believe they want to learn and they need structure and consistency. I realized that the transition from lecture to independent work time does not flow and my expectations for this transition time is not completely clear and consistent. With that, I continue to struggle with the management and talking out of turn or during independent work time. I saw that sheet today and hope that this can help me keep track of those misbehavior creating expectations and an environment that is conducive to productive learning.
I realize that there is that fine line of when to have conversations with the teachers. I tried to watch other teachers in this area. Some I see as a quick conversation from the door way in one sentence and some it is a meaningful conversation after school. Certain 1 sentence check ins or conversations, I feel is done mostly through the google chat. But it is hard as a preservice teacher to have these conversations with others on the google chat. I feel the fine line between Google chat is that you don't want to come across as always being online during your student teaching which leads to face to face conversations that may be at the wrong time. I feel some of these conversations though naturally lead to suggestions or tips on how to present things. I guess this comes across as intrusive on ones space and time. In my observations, it seems best to just wait and come back later.
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