Question #5

Some challenges I would face if I was the teacher of this classroom, some of the problems I might face would be the language barrier. I've noticed when some of the parents come and drop off their children they might not speak English or its not their first language, with makes it difficult to communicate with them. Every Monday and Wednesday the children get to go in the pool. I've noticed several times, when a parent forgets to put at bathing suit and towel in their child's backpack the teacher makes sure to call them or run after them in the hall. In some of the cases its like pulling teeth to get them to bring their bathing suits. She just wants to make sure the kids don't miss out on an activity. If I was in her position I think i would try and do the same thing. I noticed one of the moms dropped off her son and he only had his folder with him, when the teacher ran after the mom to ask if she could grab his bathing suit, she made it seem like it was a huge inconvenience to go home and get it the mom just walked away. Now her son couldn't go swimming. I felt horrible but there really wasn't anything i could do about it. Maybe if this was a situation in my class i would try and keep a few extra bathing suits in the classroom. Another problem i would face if i was the teacher of this classroom would be the lack of participation or effort on the parents side. The teacher sends home a sheet of simple 2 minute exercises they want the parents to help the children do, on several occasions i've come into the class and she was complaining about how the parents don't fill it out but still send it back with the children. They might be busy at the end of the day, but it only takes 2 minutes and its to benifit your child so i don't understand it.