Today i was in Mrs. Turners room. When I first went in I thought to myself "Where is Mrs. Turner", but soon realized that she was doing some testing in the tiny closet that the class keep supplies in. The students were watching a movie "Ice Age", which seemed like a waste of time. I tried to work one on one with some students and ended up pulling out Jarone and trying to review to vocabulary words with him. Next thing I knew it the clock said it was time to head back.
I learned that some teachers do not plan well around testing, it is not fair to the other students in the class when they are just placed to watch a movie. The movie did not even have activities accompanying it nor was it relevant to the science topic they were working on. Pulling one student out made me feel a little better, but seeing the teacher testing, the para watching the movie and the students just goofing off bothered me a little. My field II placement is at Mattie V. Rutherford and I am used to dealing with students in this age bracket. I still learned that when a classroom has poor management the students learn quickly what they can get away with.
I did some science review I felt that they did not cover the unit like they should have. It was simply five vocabulary words, and the test was 5 fill in the blanks with a word bank. I learned in class that we need to incorporate teaching of life skills and if we would have used this time to work on those skills it would have had a much bigger benefit then to be working on 5 words that the students have already went over many times. When reading through journals about the students who were behind it was saying that the further behind they fall the harder it is for them to catch up. The rate of catching back up isn't always linear, it also makes all of what they are learning in new classes irrelevant because they can no grasp the topics not knowing about the materials the missed.
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