Ms. Smith encourages interaction when students fail to pickup graded homework assignments and need to ask for them after class. This practice helps provide an opportunity for Ms. Smith to interact with the student regarding their homework. Ms. Smith encourages feedback by promoting students with the use of an appeal process when they believe a mistake has been made on their homework. In a second grade class, Ms. Smith’s homework policy would not be developmentally appropriate in its entirety. Verbally explaining and sending home copies of a homework policy would be appropriate for a second grade class.
TDA 2.9: Support Learning Activities 3. Be able to support learning activities 3.4 Describe the sorts of problems that might occur when supporting learning activities and how to deal with these 1. Noise - Sometimes during class children can become distracted by noise from inside or outside the classroom things such as other classrooms, people on the hallway or teachers themselves. One way to try and stop this problem would be to close the doors and any windows in the classroom, and also trying to remind the children to work as quietly as possible and raise their hand to speak rather than shout out if they would like some help. 2.
The teacher and the student would discuss why the homework assignment was late. Maybe the student had an emergency at home, ran out of time, or just simply forgot. This dialogue helps resolve a conflict of why the assignment was late. Also, “student discussion of homework can provide helpful feedback” (Protheroe, 2009) and possible solutions to avoid for this to happen in the future. Another way that this homework policy helps promote positive social interaction inside a second grade classroom is when graded assignments not picked up within two days should be discussed with the teacher.
A learning support practitioner or teaching assistant could contribute to the planning of an activity simply by an informal discussion with the teacher about what weekly and daily activities will be taking place., This form of planning is known as short term and would be the most likely that a teaching assistant would be involved in, The teacher may put some time aside to discuss each week’s activities with the teaching assistant, This would allow for any suggestions to be made on how to improve or change thing, Teaching assistants should have a clear understanding of the learning objective for each activity and know what they should be doing to help the children achieve this. Working with special needs children in the class so the planning will have different aims to other children and will also require more support. It is more likely that teachers will do long term planning themselves but they may involve learning support workers in medium term. This again may be by chatting informally but could also involve the teaching assistant attending some sort of a meeting. Other teachers and T.A’s from the same year group may be present here to share suggestions and advice.
Although we, as teachers, may use developmentally appropriate practices to teach wellness concepts to the pre-school children in our care, if there is not a follow-through at home it will be hard for the child to continue these habits. Nevertheless, we still need to try to implement these wellness concepts into our everyday teaching with the hopes that they will sink in. Our book tells us, “Children have their own way of learning. Some are visual learners, some are auditory learners, and some learn using a combination of skills and abilities to absorb information.” (Sorte, Daeschel & Amador, 2011, p.38) Knowing this, we have to find appropriate ways to teach all of the children about
She provides classrooms’ guidance with the teachers and the students. She consults with teachers on what ways they can handle daily issues, such as students that are not progressing in their academics or student who are having behavior problems. She said that she usually tries to get down to the root of the problem before she can asses the issue and resolve it to the best of her abilities. She pointed out that she might hold a meeting with the teacher and the student, upon his/her
How is listening to individuals used in health and social care? In a care home, the factor of listening to individuals is used when patients ask for help from their care workers, it is important for the care worker to listen because if they didn’t the resident would feel disrespected and would not feel welcome there. It is important in any situation of health and social care to listen to individuals for example in a nursery, if a child was asking their teacher for help and the teacher wasn’t listening, the child would automatically be annoyed and maybe go into a tantrum. This could go further and affect the parents of the child and they could end up changing nurseries and report the teacher. It is vital to connect with individuals to ensure
Teacher should set out the learning objective clearly because for the level 1 pupils especially Year Two pupils, without a clearly and precise induction set, the objective of the lesson will not be fully achieved. Teacher then asked the pupils what they know about pottery and when this craft is used in their daily life. According to Lorin Anderson (2002), "When examining instructional activities, one must ask, “What is the pupils supposed to learn from his or her participation in this activity? What knowledge is to be acquired or constructed? What cognitive processes are to be employed?” That’s why teaching and learning process require intentional planning and flexibility.
The Ghana Education Service have recently included arts as part of the curriculum at the basic schools to build the creativity of pupil before they get to the Junior High school and since is a new to our education system, there is a lack of creative art teacher and there is the desperate need for volunteers to help staff teach the subject. Volunteers will assist children to develop their cognitive abilities through creative methods using constructive materials, paints, clay and drawing. They will also help to keep the classroom clean, teach basic English and report on daily activities to local teachers. In addition to creative arts lessons, volunteers can spend time assisting the teachers in other subjects. This is a great program for creative volunteers as they will have the opportunity to design and implement recreational and educational activities for the children.
Teachers utilize diverse procedures to control unacceptable behaviors in the classroom Lewis, Romi, Qui and Katz (2005). At the same time, however teachers endeavor to make the classroom contribute to a favorable learning environment for the students. For example using corporal punishment like caning, sending the child out of class for misbehaving, or to the disciplinarian office, or calling their parents is actually harming them as they are not able benefit from it. Classroom management has mostly been seen by teachers as something that is not simple to compromise in education. Sanford and Evertson (1981) have similarly argued that classroom management is a major difficulty for “teachers and administrators in junior high schools” (p. 34).