jkw0827's blog

I recently was in a classroom doing a practicum and observing.  It just so happens that the classroom I was observing in had a senior II intern who was teaching the lesson.  She was a great teacher, had great methods, and was good at getting her first grade students the material in an exciting fashion; yet her classroom management seemed way to extreme.  It seemed like all she was ever doing was calling students out for talking to much, not sitting on their bottom, walking where they weren't supposed to walk, not eating lunch, and a plethora of other things.  It took everything in me not to tell her to chill out and give the students a break!  Seriously, they are in first grade, that means that majority of them are 7 years old.  I know that they do need some structure and discip