When the students first arrive in the classroom their job is to take off their coats and hang them up, unpack their backpacks and put them under the cabinets. If they need help they are supposed to ask one another. I think she has them ask each other so it gets them to practice communicating with others. Most of the children in the class have special needs and have a hard time doing things on their own. The teacher is making sure that they learn to do things on their own and strengthen their everyday skills. A couple of the children have a hard time being vocal, so she makes sure they are always answering questions with as many words as she can get out of them. As far as sociocultural I believe she doesn't discriminate against any of her children and does whatever she possible can to help them in either their school work or their home lives.
When its time to get into small groups and work on either a motor skills, counting, or letters she makes sure to place the children in groups according to there level of learning. She does it in a way to make sure that the children who are more addvanced will not over power the kids who need more help. I like that she keeps them all engaged on the task at hand and doesn't leave any child out ever.
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that sounds like a very organized and successfull way of running a classroom. i like her idea of having the kids communicate with eachother, because, as a teacher, you can only teach so much. the rest is up to the students to share their ideas with eachother, and that could lead to more creativeness and a better understanding of the subject. So is this how you would run your classroom?
ReplyDeleteI hope that someday my classroom will be as successful as hers is. She told me it took a while for the kids to settle into this routine but it defiantly is helpful to her and the teachers aids, they are able to get things ready for the rest of the day without having to help the kids with every little thing.
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