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Gianna
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Hanover, Pennsylvania
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What are the most useful tips when it comes to student teaching for grades K-4??
Looking for any tips when it comes to student teaching and having a classroom your first year of school!
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Karan Gupta
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Karan’s Answer
Hi Gianna,
I'm not a Teacher myself but I do know some.
This might not sound very helpful but I would recommend to build Patience as a virtue.
Also, try meditating if you can.
It won't only help in this case but otherwise too.
All The Best!
I'm not a Teacher myself but I do know some.
This might not sound very helpful but I would recommend to build Patience as a virtue.
Also, try meditating if you can.
It won't only help in this case but otherwise too.
All The Best!
Jerry Tingstad
Professor/middle school teacher/48 years
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Jerry’s Answer
First, we need more people like you who wish to get into elementary education. It is not necessarily an easy profession, but an absolutely necessary one.
I find it difficult to comment re your student teaching, as that will be supervised by the classroom teacher I would think. Learn what you can and store away any positive tips provided. And what is positive is up to you and what challenges you feel you will face. Contemplate if the classroom routine is one that fits your way of doing things; what fits and what doesn't, and then, of course, there are the people in administration that have things also to say about things that go on in the classroom.
More importantly, take a good look at the students, their plusses and minuses, and whether the teacher has them "on her/his side". If so, half the battle is won.
Meaning, once you are proudly and nervously given your own class, your first class, it is for you to develop. Luckily, you will only see this particular group of students every day. In my opinion, it is the first few days that are the most important. I would stress to the students that you and them are a single unit. The class is its own community, you are all together, helping each other. If you can achieve this sense of unity, it will be a very good learning experience for them and for you. If this doesn't happen, the game is over, to be blunt. But by the very fact that you are concerned enough to ask the question, I doubt that this situation will arise.
Once the class sees itself as a separate entity, successful work becomes a goal. The goal. There will always be some that do not want to cooperate, and that's a given.. But if the class is really a unit, the other students will take care of those interrupting the work of the unit. For you are all one.
This can be particularly effective in schools with low performing students. A quick examination of the educational news will offer continuing articles on this situation. And you, part of their educational world, can move them on.
Go get 'em.
I find it difficult to comment re your student teaching, as that will be supervised by the classroom teacher I would think. Learn what you can and store away any positive tips provided. And what is positive is up to you and what challenges you feel you will face. Contemplate if the classroom routine is one that fits your way of doing things; what fits and what doesn't, and then, of course, there are the people in administration that have things also to say about things that go on in the classroom.
More importantly, take a good look at the students, their plusses and minuses, and whether the teacher has them "on her/his side". If so, half the battle is won.
Meaning, once you are proudly and nervously given your own class, your first class, it is for you to develop. Luckily, you will only see this particular group of students every day. In my opinion, it is the first few days that are the most important. I would stress to the students that you and them are a single unit. The class is its own community, you are all together, helping each other. If you can achieve this sense of unity, it will be a very good learning experience for them and for you. If this doesn't happen, the game is over, to be blunt. But by the very fact that you are concerned enough to ask the question, I doubt that this situation will arise.
Once the class sees itself as a separate entity, successful work becomes a goal. The goal. There will always be some that do not want to cooperate, and that's a given.. But if the class is really a unit, the other students will take care of those interrupting the work of the unit. For you are all one.
This can be particularly effective in schools with low performing students. A quick examination of the educational news will offer continuing articles on this situation. And you, part of their educational world, can move them on.
Go get 'em.