Day 1

For my first day at the High School I was quite nervous. My clinical teachers had said they would give me full range to do whatever I needed to do and boy were they right. I was able to take roll and ask the classes questions and help them with their assignments in child development. It was interesting to have such resistance when trying t communicate but it evened out by the end of the period. I then was able to observe the foods class, it was very interesting how she organized and presented the information to the class. I then moved on to the sewing class, therre were only four students in the class so I was able to talk one o one to see their experiences in the class and what they did and didn't like about the class and what they would personaly change. Then for the final hour I moved into the financial literacy class, what a diference in size conpared to the sewing class. There were not enough chairs for all of the students. This class is one of the requirements needed to graduate so the class was packed. I was not sure if it was because it was the end of the day or the class itself but they were very disrespectful. I coudn't believe it. The teacher was about 30 and they treated her horribly. It was an eye opener that you must establish your presence and the behavior you expect if you want it to be followed. But all in all my first day was good, an eye opener for sure but a positive one.

Classroom Management:
I was able to see the different styles of four different teachers. I was especially interested how the foods teacher managed the classroom. It was nice to see thatthe kids were pretty respectuful in the class and things were not to out of hand. She allowed the groups to come up to the front and collect their needed supplies for their lab instead of having things already in their labs. She also agve them the time limit, more than needed and if they were not finished they did not recieve points for the day. It was a good idea to get the students to work and not just mess around.

Teaching Style:
Like I ststed before I was able to observe four different teachign styles. It was interesting to see the different respect levels the students had for the various teachers. For example in the Child Care class the students were talkign and messing around, braiding each others hair and so on. The teacher had no control and it was obvious that she really didnt care to. But then in the sewing class the teacher had strict rues, if not obeyed then they were disciplined. It was different the range of how they followed through in the classroom and actually had some sort of rhyme for the reason.

Discipline:
There was an experience today when a boy kept takign the notebook from another student, a girl of course. I woudl assume it was some sort of flirting tactic but it was not working. Everyone was getting mad and nothing was being done about it. Finally the girl just got up and left the class. The teacher didn't punish the boy who was causig problems. And I have n clue what ever hapened to the girl who left class. I was just frustrated that the teacher did not do anythign. If i were the girl I think I would have left too. It took all that I had not to say something to them . Oh man!!!