post #3

There were few days that my cooperating teacher was gone for meetings. I learnt a lot of the sub teachers. In my field experience, there were three different sub-teacher taught the class. The first sub teacher used I spy.. as a transition or class management for lining up to the bathroom. She sub taught the class before so she still remember most of the students' name in our classroom. The other sub teacher taught me and Ivy that standing back and watch the students for 20 seconds after giving out directions. This is a good way to see how students work as individual learning.
There is one thing that I would like to use in my future classroom which is a poem for bathroom time.
Students will say the poem together before going to bathroom.
"ya soon raccoon, 
take care polar bear, 
out the door dinosaur,
toodle - oo kangaroo,
to your house little mouse"
Also, through this whole month, the students have been engaging and learning their skills of reading and math. There were lots of changes during the field experience and I still missing the students.
During Math lesson, I always sit by one of the boys who has been struggling in school. I still remember the first day that I started to teach him. He could not even write 1 to 20. Three weeks later, he wrote 1-30. A week after, he wrote 1-40 by himself without looking at the number chart. My CT even asked me if he did it by himself, and she was surprised. If you willing to do it, YOU CAN DO IT!