Organization is the key, in my opinion, to obtaining a classroom with well managed students. Planning and instruction are also very important skills a teacher needs to know when working in a classroom. While talking with my field placement teacher, she mentioned that there is not a wide scope in her class, but she does have a student who barley falls on the Autism spectrum. Because of this one student, she takes into consideration his personal needs. I noticed that as a math teacher, she rotates her classroom between three classes. As the students go through the different stations the teacher would perform a "frequency distribution to form a running data sheet" on who scored what. It was clear to see that with only 45 minutes they were not going to finish the activity that the teacher had put in place. A five minute warning was given at the end of the rotation and when the students had to travel to the next room, they had journals that they placed all items not finished and if the work was finished, the students could turn them into a bin. The teacher announced that the next day would me a mustard and catch-up day. They would “muster the effort to catch-up” on all work that they have not finished. The overall day consisted of a schedule that worked around the students and allowed for the teacher and myself to give more one-on-one time to the students, especially those who need it.
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