First Year Teacher

Among the values that the best teachers should have are to be excited and to love working with and for children, to have goals such as to make a difference in the children’s lives, to help them to achieve their potential and goals, to have the ability to guide, to be compassionate, encouraging and carrying. The documentary “First Year “displays the first year of professional life of five teachers and their approaches while dealing with children disruptive to others. But in reality they are only disadvantaged children. I observed the challenges, the attitudes and the strategies that the new teachers used in order to overcome the difficult situation that they faced. Almost every teacher has at least one child with who tries to connect. I realize …show more content…
The all teachers consult with more experienced specialists to gain knowledge and be able to manage the situations, and that adds positively to their experiences. The teachers Genevieve DeBose and Nate Monley experience hard time while dealing with students that are disruptive to the other students. They seek ways to overcome the difficult situations and try to discipline their students by punishment such as time out, writing the child’s name on the board or writing word several times, but it does not work because such a discipline is not intended to build self- control and it is done not for the students but to the students. The teacher DeBose’s body language and some of her attitudes make some of the situations even worst for the …show more content…
The things like introducing herself through using drawings and her discipline type set up the tone in the class. On the family meeting in front of Marvin through labeling him as angry and through reminding him that she does not accept him to be angry in her class, she gives the child a message that the important thing here is not the subject of his anger or he but the fact that she doesn’t want problems in her class. The teacher should be very careful with labeling the children as angry because they can start feeling and believing in that label. In my opinion, the best way to deal with the problem is to speak with the family separately and to decide if the child needs a help from a specialist. Actually, at the end she finds way to reach him through going with him to his church. By providing the children with cameras for an activity where they share pictures of their special moments and attributes, the teacher helps the children to build self-confidence and self-esteem, and that is a positive result. I also appreciate the effort of Juan Gonzalez’s teacher who visits his home and shares his spare time with him and his father, and again that result positively. It is obvious that the difficulties’ increase is parallel with the developmental stage of the