On my first day at Talahi Elementary there was definitely an unfamiliarity with the students. I felt like I was disruptive to the teacher because the students just wanted to know who the new person was. I was in the language arts section with 6th graders. It was definitely a different experience. I got warnings from other student volunteers that they would be rowdy and disrespectful, so I felt like I was starting to get an image in my head of how the day was going to go.
I don't like assuming things especially in a classroom setting, so I just ignored what the others said and listened more to what the students were saying. I noticed that in the classroom there was little respect for authority and I don't know if it has to do with the different teacher helpers there were in that class or if it had to do with the attitude in their day. Every time a student were to be disruptive they had to "take a break" which meant that they would sit in a chair an re cooperate. This technique seemed to work for most students. If they were very disruptfull they would go on a walk with either myself or a teacher helper.
You could figure out very quickly who would get distracted easily and disrupt the rest of the class. So about an hour into it I did the first group lesson. I had a group of four that became five after some persuading. The group went really well and it was not that hard to pick up on some of the behaviors that the students had that you needed to work with.
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