In Educating Esme there are moment when we she how she taught positivitly, but we also see how things had negative consequences or weaknesses. I saw weaknesses in her teaching in the way she is sometimes overly caring with her students. I also saw negative consequences when she went to Mr. Turner about B.B. I also think that there were negative consequences with her conflict resolution meetings. Though there were consequences and weaknesses in her teaching I think there were also positive points. Her teaching also related to Robert Powell’s principle of teaching. Through all the good, negative consequences and weaknesses we can really see that Esme was a great teacher. B.B was a student who was disrespectful and was threatening to other classmates.
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They were a very he said she said kind of moment though. Even though both side got to put in their opinion it was also have a negative effect on the student. As we said in class it is more embarrassing when you are called out individually to go into the hall for some little thing. If you are yelled at it also makes you lose respect for the teacher. This situation can be seen when she wrote “The class looked at Kyle. His face was pained, devastated. Denial, his exit door, has been blocked off. He looked bloodless, shocked, leaning forward on his knuckles. The class waited.” (Page 123) Even though Kyle had done what was at conflict it had an effect on how Kyle was feeling. You can see later when she writes “Poor Kyle looked shot. I thought of interjecting somehow in his defense; perhaps he didn’t know. But really, there’s no defense.” (Page 123) He was embarrassed in front of the whole class and he had to sit there and accept what he done. This wouldn’t be anything for an adult because we know that if we do something wrong we have to own up to it. However this is a child who is just learning the difference between right and wrong. A situation like this can be helpful but in this instance it had a negative effect or consequence on …show more content…
I think a positive in her teaching was her creativity to show the students the subject with more than just lecturing. When the student were having trouble multiplying double digits she used the cha-cha to show them how to do math. She wrote “I started dancing on the butcher paper, making my feet do the math. Forward, multiply the ones. Back, bring it down. Side, the ones column by the tens. Back, down and over. Side, multiply the tens by the ones. Back, extra step, and over. On and On. Soon, all the kids were dancing on problems.” (Page 115) She gets the children to look outside of the box while also still learning. In relation to another book called Outstanding Teaching Handbook by Robert Powell I see that his principles relate to how Esme teaches. Powell’s principles of teaching include classroom management, shared purpose and engagement, literacy and language, questioning and participation, review and celebration. You can see how she manages her classroom with the way she gets there attention. Esme shows this when she writes “I raised my thumb, which is the signal for attention, and like a magic trick, within twelve seconds every mouth was closed, thirty-one thumbs were in the air to show they got my signal, and all eyes were on us.” She shows classroom management by knowing how to get the class attention. I also think she shows questioning and participation in
They were a very he said she said kind of moment though. Even though both side got to put in their opinion it was also have a negative effect on the student. As we said in class it is more embarrassing when you are called out individually to go into the hall for some little thing. If you are yelled at it also makes you lose respect for the teacher. This situation can be seen when she wrote “The class looked at Kyle. His face was pained, devastated. Denial, his exit door, has been blocked off. He looked bloodless, shocked, leaning forward on his knuckles. The class waited.” (Page 123) Even though Kyle had done what was at conflict it had an effect on how Kyle was feeling. You can see later when she writes “Poor Kyle looked shot. I thought of interjecting somehow in his defense; perhaps he didn’t know. But really, there’s no defense.” (Page 123) He was embarrassed in front of the whole class and he had to sit there and accept what he done. This wouldn’t be anything for an adult because we know that if we do something wrong we have to own up to it. However this is a child who is just learning the difference between right and wrong. A situation like this can be helpful but in this instance it had a negative effect or consequence on …show more content…
I think a positive in her teaching was her creativity to show the students the subject with more than just lecturing. When the student were having trouble multiplying double digits she used the cha-cha to show them how to do math. She wrote “I started dancing on the butcher paper, making my feet do the math. Forward, multiply the ones. Back, bring it down. Side, the ones column by the tens. Back, down and over. Side, multiply the tens by the ones. Back, extra step, and over. On and On. Soon, all the kids were dancing on problems.” (Page 115) She gets the children to look outside of the box while also still learning. In relation to another book called Outstanding Teaching Handbook by Robert Powell I see that his principles relate to how Esme teaches. Powell’s principles of teaching include classroom management, shared purpose and engagement, literacy and language, questioning and participation, review and celebration. You can see how she manages her classroom with the way she gets there attention. Esme shows this when she writes “I raised my thumb, which is the signal for attention, and like a magic trick, within twelve seconds every mouth was closed, thirty-one thumbs were in the air to show they got my signal, and all eyes were on us.” She shows classroom management by knowing how to get the class attention. I also think she shows questioning and participation in