Today things changed up a little bit. My schedule has been pretty consistent this whole semester. Because of the administrative duties with my supervisor, I was borrowed to another teacher with students who needed help with reading. From 9:00-10:00 I went to a classroom that dealt with some students with special needs. One of the students reads to me from a book, while struggling to pronounce sometimes, he managed to do it pretty well. We read some small, easy books, and then after we were finished, he was sent to play. When playing was over, we went to work on word comprehension and reading. It was difficult for him to concentrate sometimes looking around for distractions, I had to remind him to stay on task. Once I finished helping him I
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Previously the supervisor has been watching him, but today it was my duty. Him and his friends were playing a game of handball. Throughout the game they were being really argumentative, debating every out. I believe a lot of the students left angrily and there was frequent debating. I had to act the role of the referee, making decisions for the students. I had a limited knowledge of the rules, and struggled sometimes to make a decision, but me just being there relaxed some of the conflict. The incident came once I left and walked to the friendship room the student that I was watching to see if he was being bullied threw his lunchbox at another student. The other student started crying, and the aids managed to watch the whole scenario and walk them to class. This happened just minutes after I stopped watching them, they were on the way to class. My supervisor who was already heading to the office herself took them with her. After that incident before the day was over I had to watch the fifth graders in the friendship room. Usually I have no issues with them, but this time there was an argument between the girls. They usually play working in an imaginary hotel but today one of the girls was mad that they were not playing it their way. One of the girls even stated, “This is the friendship room, we have to be friendly”. By the time I was about to get involved It was time for them to …show more content…
If I had not been in the hand ball area this fight would have happened earlier. There was a lot of tension between the third-graders every out was disputed, every call fueled with anger. I had to get involved multiple time for the situation to calm down. So, when the incident occurred when they were walking back to class and I no longer could supervise them, I was not surprised. Sometimes kids need to get their frustration out, unfortunately this time it involved conflict. As for the other argument it was pretty similar, there was not as much tension as in the hand ball area, but there were small disputes. Unlike the physical fight with the boys, this girl’s argument was mostly words and honestly dealt strongly with cliques. I do not know most of the detail from the argument, but there seems to be blame in one girl in particular because of her “bossy” attitude. I do regret of not getting more involved, but I have a feeling I would have made
Previously the supervisor has been watching him, but today it was my duty. Him and his friends were playing a game of handball. Throughout the game they were being really argumentative, debating every out. I believe a lot of the students left angrily and there was frequent debating. I had to act the role of the referee, making decisions for the students. I had a limited knowledge of the rules, and struggled sometimes to make a decision, but me just being there relaxed some of the conflict. The incident came once I left and walked to the friendship room the student that I was watching to see if he was being bullied threw his lunchbox at another student. The other student started crying, and the aids managed to watch the whole scenario and walk them to class. This happened just minutes after I stopped watching them, they were on the way to class. My supervisor who was already heading to the office herself took them with her. After that incident before the day was over I had to watch the fifth graders in the friendship room. Usually I have no issues with them, but this time there was an argument between the girls. They usually play working in an imaginary hotel but today one of the girls was mad that they were not playing it their way. One of the girls even stated, “This is the friendship room, we have to be friendly”. By the time I was about to get involved It was time for them to …show more content…
If I had not been in the hand ball area this fight would have happened earlier. There was a lot of tension between the third-graders every out was disputed, every call fueled with anger. I had to get involved multiple time for the situation to calm down. So, when the incident occurred when they were walking back to class and I no longer could supervise them, I was not surprised. Sometimes kids need to get their frustration out, unfortunately this time it involved conflict. As for the other argument it was pretty similar, there was not as much tension as in the hand ball area, but there were small disputes. Unlike the physical fight with the boys, this girl’s argument was mostly words and honestly dealt strongly with cliques. I do not know most of the detail from the argument, but there seems to be blame in one girl in particular because of her “bossy” attitude. I do regret of not getting more involved, but I have a feeling I would have made