Journal entry #8#OneTooTwoOptions From my observations at Beattie last week it got kinda crazy. One moment in particular that stood out for me was with a student regarding discipline. Now this event relates back to my idea about my own personal teaching theory and research during my time at the elementary level. As I've been an active participant with teaching and interacting with the middle schools for the last two years, it feels like I can say I know how to handle students better at this age level. They are better able to articulate what they feel at the middle school age, unlike at the elementary grades of 3rd and kindergarten. Now I know that being at the elementary was going to be different and the way you interact with, teach and discipline students behavior is different, I'm learning in this experience that they are drastically different. Last friday, I had a kindergarten student that was having a rough day, i've witnesses before him having a hard day in the past with the art teacher their and it became quickly apparent to me that he struggles with behavior. But for me on Friday, without their regular art teacher their, reacting to behavior was solely on me. A lot of questions came into my mind about how to react to his recent behavior, he was possibly putting himself in harm's way as he was balancing on the edge of his chair, he wasn't listening to two teachers re-directs, wasn't making eye contact or following the lesson instructions. I found myself asking, what do I do? So in this moment I found this a new learning experience personally, it challenged me to think on the spot of, “what would mrs.noel do?” It also meant that what I said, and how I reacted with this student for the rest of the class was going to shape how we both saw the situation. The longer I let his behavior go the more the student thinks it's okay, but I am losing at the discipline battle, and that of those in the future. In that moment I decided the best way to go about this was giving them two options, they could sit in the chair correctly or go sit in break time for 10min and I will talk with them afterwards. Now for the future, I think this is the way to go, giving the students the choice to choose their own consequences, they can in the moment fix what they are doing, or go to the “break time” and think about why they chose the option they did, and if they see what was wrong about it. This event overall lead me to think about my new topic and way of creating for the journal entry, after the time to reflect on my semester so far, I had enough time to think about what I want to focus on creating, and giving myself two options. To either draw out the idea, story, reflection, teaching event, moment, life moment, anything and everything into one drawing on what would be in a way, a tile. The tile can be either drawn out on a 6x6 square, paper, fabric, woven fabric, canvas, or through digital medium and it focuses on one symbol from the journal entry. As I already know this journal entry will come out later than the due date, and the art portion will not look as great as future tiles, im giving myself options now to grow. With having more choices it limits what my brain thinks about when I go to create. Similarly to what I was trying to do with the student last friday, by restricting their options for behavior it’s trying to have them focus on what their doing in the moment rather than what they can do later on in the future.
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