Practical Experience Placement

The class I have for Practical Experience Placement (PEP) is year 4. The school is located in a low socio-economic area. It has been indicated that there is “evidence that stress and inconsistency within the family, often originating in the external environment, have disruptive effects on children’s development.” (Bronfenbrenner, U. 1999, p23)The students appear to not care much about their learning. This class consists of 26 pupils. There are mixed abilities but the level of learning is quite low. We have 1 Autistic student and 1 with Attention Deficient Hyperactive Disorder. The Autistic student also has serve anxiety. There has been a child who was taken out of school for an extended period of time in the first term, coming back to school …show more content…
You cannot just yell at the students, they will not always respond. When they do they will act out worse later. They will lose their respect for you. Behaviour management can make or break your lesson. They have to listen to you and you them. “For effective learning to take place children need to feel emotionally and physically secure in order to prevent poor health and disaffection having an advise effect on their learning and lives” (Shelton, F., & Brownhill, S. 2008, p 6) The teacher needs to ensure the environment is a safe place in order to allow learning to occur. You will need to be aware of the social interactions the students are having with themselves and the community. I learned that the teacher is always learning new things, not just the students. The visits have shown that you need to be flexible. No matter how much you plan things can always go wrong, students won’t listen, or the activity will not work for them on that day. I leant that there will always be a student that will misbehave; you need to have strategies in place to allow the rest of the class to continue their work without allowing the misbehaving child attention that boosts their distractions. When you teach you must always be on. You need to be aware of what the students are doing, saying and where they are. I would like to know more about how teachers are able to maintain their control over the …show more content…
Many during a single day. There was happiness, anger, frustration, exhaustion, joy. The students would affect the emotions based on their behaviour and attitudes. The behaviour can cause exhaustion as well as disappointment. They do not care about their learning or others. They make you question the reason you are there, no matter what you try they refuse to listen. This can become frustrating. Although this makes when they want to participate and learn much more enjoyable. You feel triumphant when they say that they enjoyed the lesson, that they have learnt something. Throughout each day you can feel many things, it is a rollercoaster. These emotions had a different impact each day; the mood of the students would determine how you felt at the end of each day. When they fought with each other, didn’t cooperate you would be frustrated and exhausted but when they were able to complete the set tasks with little behavioural issues it made the day joyful, you would feel accomplished. Over the course of the visits the rollercoaster emotions slows as the students settle into routine, you have more good days than bad days, you are happy more than sad.
I was able to feel like a teacher when taking charge of lessons and groups during lessons. Having the students listen to me and appear interested. Being able to use my strategies on behaviour management also helped me feel like a teacher, the students saw me as a teacher