Joyce Davidson is a high school English teacher. It was her second year and in this case, she is found teaching remedial English for the tenth grade.Within her classroom, there are thirteen students who vary in areas of abilities but all have relatively low reading scores with an average of 4.5. Among them, there are more boys than girls numbering eleven to two with the majority of the boys being either African American or Hispanic. Overall the classroom has a vibrant social atmosphere of mostly positive exchanges. While her class is often filled with conversation she finds herself drawn to the outlier - Elizabeth Martin or Beth whom, she had taught previously only to watch her regress further into isolation. Therein the lesson discussed
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The room, in particular, she has no control over as it’s not a permanent assignment. Therefore restricting her from being able to rearrange or post student work. Inheriting the room at the end of the day also resulting in its disarray and lingering smells of the days' lunch. Items misfortunate placement such as the phone cord, which Luis often pulls, attributing to the decoherence and distraction of the students. At the curricular level, she has say but only over a portion of what she does. The two-thirds left to administration she finds less interesting and it often reflects in her class as she finds she has little lee-way in relating it to the students.
Regarding possible solutions and insights in her primary concern, Beth, Joyce appears to be at a loss. Her patience regarding response time and allowing her to participate are good strategies but considering some alternatives might be helpful. To alleviate the aspect of communication Joyce could incorporate some alterations which allow for nonverbal communication as a part of participation. Modeling could also be implemented by reading aloud as a group, demonstrating conversational dialogue and modulating her voice. In addition, she could assign readings or allow students to look at a text beforehand allowing Beth the opportunity to intake and process what they are about to …show more content…
Wherein Joyce assumes her parents are overprotective - what might be the cause of this? She should be aware of any other telling signs that either something isn’t right at home or that she simply isn’t having all her needs met.
Perhaps in the situation of the classroom being out of her control, there is a way to establish student ownership temporarily. Even having students create examples and hanging them on the board or walls until after the course might attribute to student belonging. As far as desk arrangement goes having students sit in the front of the room and allowing the back row to stay empty could help in the case of attentiveness. Moving the desk away from the phone wire might also be well within her control and as for the last primary distractor of smell she might carry an air freshener.
Transitioning into lessons and curriculum, where she has little control over the other two-thirds of lessons students are often impacted by teacher attitude and adjusting her own outlook on these portions could improve morale. Within her lesson presented in the case, she allows student interventions to shape the lesson allowing her to redirect the behaviors and keep attention on the lesson. Doing this with these others could prove an excellent
The room, in particular, she has no control over as it’s not a permanent assignment. Therefore restricting her from being able to rearrange or post student work. Inheriting the room at the end of the day also resulting in its disarray and lingering smells of the days' lunch. Items misfortunate placement such as the phone cord, which Luis often pulls, attributing to the decoherence and distraction of the students. At the curricular level, she has say but only over a portion of what she does. The two-thirds left to administration she finds less interesting and it often reflects in her class as she finds she has little lee-way in relating it to the students.
Regarding possible solutions and insights in her primary concern, Beth, Joyce appears to be at a loss. Her patience regarding response time and allowing her to participate are good strategies but considering some alternatives might be helpful. To alleviate the aspect of communication Joyce could incorporate some alterations which allow for nonverbal communication as a part of participation. Modeling could also be implemented by reading aloud as a group, demonstrating conversational dialogue and modulating her voice. In addition, she could assign readings or allow students to look at a text beforehand allowing Beth the opportunity to intake and process what they are about to …show more content…
Wherein Joyce assumes her parents are overprotective - what might be the cause of this? She should be aware of any other telling signs that either something isn’t right at home or that she simply isn’t having all her needs met.
Perhaps in the situation of the classroom being out of her control, there is a way to establish student ownership temporarily. Even having students create examples and hanging them on the board or walls until after the course might attribute to student belonging. As far as desk arrangement goes having students sit in the front of the room and allowing the back row to stay empty could help in the case of attentiveness. Moving the desk away from the phone wire might also be well within her control and as for the last primary distractor of smell she might carry an air freshener.
Transitioning into lessons and curriculum, where she has little control over the other two-thirds of lessons students are often impacted by teacher attitude and adjusting her own outlook on these portions could improve morale. Within her lesson presented in the case, she allows student interventions to shape the lesson allowing her to redirect the behaviors and keep attention on the lesson. Doing this with these others could prove an excellent