Re: Student Teaching

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I wanted to student teach in the spring. I think getting a
teaching job after that is easier. I could be wrong. Do student
teachers really make the rules. I thought they basically
followed the classroom rules. I am teaching special ed so it may
be different for me. I am excited and scared. I have not gotten
my placement yet. Hopefully I will soon.

On 11/08/11, Sara wrote:
> On 9/01/11, elizabeth england wrote:
>> I will be student teaching in the spring. I wish I could be
>> able to in the fall, since most of the spring is focused on
>> standardized testing. What are some good ways to present
>> the rules in a nice way to the students when they begin
the
>> class?
>
>
> I'd say first - keep your list of rules as short as possible. I
> have one rule - maybe two - "What we do in here must be
safe.
> Nothing we do in here should endanger anyone else either
> physically or emotionally."
>
> That's it. When a kid runs, I'd say "Is that safe?"
>
> Longer lists of rules sound like gobblety-gook to kids. And
I
> present my two rules in the air of "This is common sense
and
> good for us. We don't do this because I said so - we do this
> because it's simply good for all of us."
>
> I'm not making my two rules for my best interest or my
> convenience. It's for the safety and well-being of the
> classroom community. If as the year unfolds, we see the
need
> for more rules, I can make them. But I didn't make one the
day
> one child crawled in his locker and another child closed the
> locker door thereby locking the child in his locker.
>
> Did I make a rule then "No locking each other in your
> lockers."? I asked the kid and the class - was that safe? Was
> shutting the door on Jimmy a safe thing to do?
>
> Rules are to serve us and I present it in that light. We don't
> obey the punctuation rules just because they are rules - we
> obey them because our writing is clearer if we do. The rules
> are there to serve us and to promote our safety and well-
being
> - not to keep us from doing things.

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