Day 3

What a day! Students are starting to get restless now, maybe it's because holidays are coming up. Today a student was distracting others around her and not paying attention in class. My colleague teacher asked her many times and gave her warnings but she still kept on disturbing other students. She was finally sent to sit in the time out area. I believe she shouldn't be excluded from the lesson even though she still can see the board from where she was sitting. As she can play with other objects surrounding her. It might be better if the teacher moved her away from her group of friends or even moved her to the front near the teacher. That way the student can always be monitored.

For the whole day students were separated into their mixed ability group and did rotational tasks. I supervised the children doing the painting. They did a self portrait influenced by Matisse. The fun bit was they had to smear soap flakes mixed with water and paint. That covered the whole piece of paper, they then used their fingers to draw their portrait. During all that was fun, but when it was time for me to clean up, my oh my. What a mess!

Much effort is needed when planning for the day. From day one, lecturers at uni stresses to us the importance of planning.Teacher planning comes under Element 3 of the NSW Institute of Teachers’ Professional Teaching Standards. For a lesson to be success the teacher will have to plan on things such as material to be taught, questions to be asked, activities for students that finishes first and how to manage disruptive behaviour. Failing to do so is just planning to fail. The class may become out of control if the teacher does not have a succinct plan. Having said that, not everyday will go according to plan. There will be disruptions, there will be emergency meetings, there will be practice lock downs, it's just a part of life. Teachers will have to be flexible and cater to these disruptions. Thus, we'll have to plan to catch up.