Reflection 2
How you would manage if your MST did not
take such an active role in the class? How do you think it would change
what your practice in the lesson and why? Can you provide an example
where her (and the AMT) intervention affected your lesson – positively or
negatively?
In this Reflection I will write about my literacy lesson I
did last week on the 11th of Oct, Wednesday. My lesson was about
letter Ss and the body parts. I started the lesson by listening to a song about
All about Me. And then I moved on to a shared reading with the students and
playing with words activity. After the reading activity I introduced the letter
of the week lesson to the students and played the song of sound that the
students sing almost every day. And then I made a game called mystery bag game
where the student will come and pick one object out of the bag and name it,
they really enjoyed the activity because they don’t know what’s coming from the
bag. Later on I made the students play an activity about looking for the right
letter from the board where each two students will play against each other and
who finds the letter first gets a point. Before going to the centers I gave the
students a basket that has colored badges where every student will pick his
group color that they already know and before moving to the centers I model the
activity to them and then ask each group to move to their tables.
During the lesson my MST and t5he AMT plays a big role since
they are watching the students for me and try to manage their behavior
sometimes during my lesson. I think if my MST did not take an active role like
she does usually I would focus more on using behavior charts with the students or
I would use different materials to get their attention whenever I lose it from
them. it will make a big change if the MST was not involved because some
students might pay attention to other thing or will lost the track like when it
happened during the shared reading time in this lesson and the MST helped the
student to find the correct page. I think that the MST and AMT being around in
the classroom is helpful sometimes because in the last few lessons I had a
problem with a student called Hamad. Hamad always act differently and its hard
to manage his behavior sometimes so the AMT helped me managing his behavior during
the lesson and tried to stop him from distracting other students with his behavior.
Firstly, I liked your circle time activities that shows that you used different types of teaching during the important part of the lesson. The song and shared reading make the students active whereas the different games and activities engaged and motivated students to participate in learning. Also, I liked your transition strategy for the student to move from carpet to centers.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, managing the students’ behavior from the circle time by you using behavior chart, class dojo, stickers or any other rewards can make it easier for you to take more control of their behavior without MST or AMT intervene, so in this time the students are dealing with one teacher that is you and giving you their attention. MST and AMT may help you with very difficult students to make everyone on task.
Finally, positive intervene of MST and AMT could be helping in changing picture in behavior chart, working on computer, monitor other activities which need a lot of work to do, and make sure that everyone is on task during centers time. my advice to you, when you teach the students, prepare the lesson well which I know that you do, and use different strategies of managing the students’ behavior that can make the students listen to your instructions and that you don’t want MST and AMT intervene and affect your lesson negatively.
First of all, I liked how you used different types of the learning style to introduce the learning outcomes for the students. That because, using different styles will help you to deliver the lesson more effectively and concentrate on all students' ability in the class. Also, the opening activities were enjoyable and i think the students engaged and participated with you. In addition, I liked your transition strategy to move students from the carpet to the centers.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, it's true that managing students' behavior without any help from your MST and AMT may will be difficult for you but that doesn't mean you can't manage and control students' behavior by yourself as a EMT in the future. Therefore, there are many different types of strategies to manage students' behavior in the classroom. For example, you can reinforce student by using behavior chart, remind them about the classroom rules, class dojo, stickers, star of the week or any other rewards.
Finally, working with the AMT and the EMT from the beginning of the TP as a team will benefit you to create an educational atmosphere in the class, deliver the lesson more successfully, manage students’ behavior and set up the classroom from the smallest to the biggest details.
Form my point of view, one of the problems of having your MST and AMT contribute to class management is that you may lack practice in doing managing the whole class by yourself - skills which you going to need soon. It can also cause difficulties if you and the other teachers in the room have different assumptions about how you should manage a class - different expectations and methods for class management can be confusing for the class - and so mean that student behaviour or attention may not be as good as if there were only one teacher in the classroom. So, I think if there are more than one teacher in a room then they need to establish a shared understanding of class management so that they are bot consistent.
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