The Importance Of A Reflective Teacher And The Classroom...

This week there is a considerable amount of change occurring within myself, the students, and the classroom environment. I am learning how to effectively work with another teacher and how to utilize having two teachers in the room at once. Another important change I have noticed in myself is how much reflection occurs in my head after each activity. Meghan and I meet every day to discuss each part of that specific day and analyze whether or not it was valuable for the students learning. Thus, teaching style, pacing, timing of when subjects are taught, and behavior management have all been altered this week to fit the needs of our class. I can see myself becoming more of a reflective teacher that is always focused on if my students are†¦show more content†¦The most prevalent time for these behaviors to occur is normally during center time. However, I think that since we have IPads now to utilize during center time for our special education students, learning is improving and misbehavior is being eliminated. Explain The experiences that have taken place thus far relate specifically toward the goals of how to motivate students and how to work with special needs. Both of these are important goals, but definitely tasks I struggle with. That is why I find it imperative for the experiences that parallel with these goals to be described. So to explain, my biggest focus this week has been finding different ways to motivate the children and how to effectively work with individuals who have special needs in our classroom. One example is the use of class Dojo. We have been reinforcing and rewarding good behavior as much as possible through Dojo points. Once the students reach twenty-five, they get to pick their reward from a list of six items. This incentive seems to be effective with all of our students. I think that having this system in place has helped tremendously with motivating students, as well as keeping them on task. As the students become more acclimated to this system and closer to their goal of twenty-five points, motivation seems to be higher. For example, a student who normally causes many problems