Week 4

This week was a little overwhelming for me, because I was struggling with combining two different contexts of geometry with my grade 5 and 6 students. I was not familiar with the material and I tried to comprehend how I can teach this to both grades efficiently and in a timely manner. However, it took me the whole class just going over the lesson and no time for them to start working on their activity. I realized I could of done this differently, if I was confident with the material beforehand. Moreover, I had students getting into conflict with each other during lunch time. Apparently, one of the student’s pushed one student and they started hitting each other; while, the other student bit another student on his hand. I know it was really stressful and I was thinking what the heck happened during that 40 minutes. It was a struggle just dealing with confrontation and how to be rationale at the same time. The student who bit the other student went to the office and the principal was talking to him, while I talked to the other two students. I first talked to both of them one on one, and told them that they should not resort to violence and if there is a problem, they need to talk it out. They ended up apologizing and started laughing with each other near the end of the day. It was a stressful week; however, it did prepare me for situations that may occur in the future.

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  1. Teaching two grades is always a challenge, particularly in Math. When lessons don’t go well, it is time to regroup and review. This happens to all teachers as well as teacher candidates and it is OK.
    The other tough part is helping students to solve problems peacefully. Sometimes having a brief morning meeting on a regular basis can help students to reflect on how to go about working things out with others. If you want to incorporate some strategies during your practicum, let me know and we can come up with some ideas.

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