WOW~
The first day in my classroom was a little exhausting and all I did was sit at a table in a 7inch high chair. When MaCall and I entered we were both floored at the lack of apparent classroom management and messiness.
The students were "playing" a math game in pairs. The teacher stood by her desk with a giant worksheet. The students didn't have their own sheets to work from. When the students weren't getting what they were supposed to do, she gathered them to the carpet where she did a few mock game plays on a child size whiteboard. On this board, things weren't erased thoroughly. It was very hard for me to follow what she was doing, let alone 23 first graders.
When the children were getting to loud, she shh'd them, and shh'd them, and shh'd them some more.
Later, she said he classroom works as a community. The students get paid for their class jobs, get good behavior citation and bad behavior fines. This idea sounds great- a year long whole class social studies lesson- but I didn't see it implemented. If this community is on the verge of anarchy.
I'm anticipating my next visit. Hopefully, things will be more in order.
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You are definitely right...Dr. Cottingham would go nuts in a classroom like that! I really learned a lot about classroom managment during that course and it is difficult for me to sit and allow things to happen in a classroom now because of her! Good luck!
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