Students have homework assignments listed on their unit plan. Class management approach is to not embarrass the students, but to let them know they are acting inappropriately. Special needs students (those with disabilities OR those that are gifted) are addressed.
Students have homework assignments listed on their unit plan. Class management approach is to not embarrass the students, but to let them know they are acting inappropriately. Special needs students (those with disabilities OR those that are gifted) are addressed.
Students have homework assignments listed on their unit plan. Class management approach is to not embarrass the students, but to let them know they are acting inappropriately. Special needs students (those with disabilities OR those that are gifted) are addressed.
3. What homework routines and policies are in evidence?
Erica: My students have homework assignments listed on their unit plan. They are required to do the homework, and the teacher walks around of the beginning of class handing out answer sheets to those who did the homework. If time permits, students can ask questions about the homework. Grace: My students have homework assignments listed on the board at the beginning of class. They tend to have at least one writing assignment for homework each week that is collected and given a grade. The teacher collects the writing assignment along with their notes from the chapters they should have read the night before.
4. What behavior issues were seen, and how were they
handled? What is the approach to classroom management? Erica: In my classroom, there was a student who was arguing with the teacher about how she wanted to use her tablet for a specific lesson instead of the hand out. My teacher insisted that using paper for the lesson would be easier, which ended becoming an argument between the two of them. My teacher stopped herself, told the student to meet with her after class, and then spoke to her after all the students had left. Grace: There is excessive talking in a few of my classes so my teacher will quietly redirect the students attention back to the lesson. There has also been cases of students using their cell phones during class, but my teacher just stops lecturing and waits until the student realizes he is wait for he/she to stop using their cell phone. The class management approach is to not embarrass the students, but to let them know that they are acting in a way that is not appropriate in the classroom.
6. How are special needs students (those with disabilities OR
those that are gifted) addressed? What accommodations are made? Erica: I am in a co-teaching classroom, which is Hewletts inclusion classroom. One teacher teaches the class while the other teacher helps out the students with special needs. The teacher differentiates between the two by giving the students with special needs different worksheets to accommodate for the lesson. This way the students are getting a little more extra help when doing the work on their own. Grace: For the special needs students, there is an inclusion teacher that specifically helps the student throughout the class with graphic organizers, in class writing assignments and keeps them on task as well. Additionally, students with special needs are placed towards the front of the class to minimize distractions, are given extra time for assignments, and are given partially filled out graphic organizers as an example of what is expected from them.