3 observations from a student teacher By nene

Hello everyone~ I am a student teacher observing a second grade classroom. The students are a little “feisty”; therefore my cooperating teacher has employed a variety of signals to get the students attention. As an observer

I am able to see how these different signals have worked. My cooperating teacher gave me a wonderful piece of advice, “kids don’t want to miss out on anything that their peers may be doing. If you can get the group to start something, however trivial it may be, the other students will play copycat. It is up to you to create a fun, new way to get the students attention”. Here are three

examples that I have observed.

~Clapping your hands in patterns and having the students follow the patters; make sure to change the pattern each time so that the students stay engaged in the activity. This will prompt the disruptive students to focus on the patterns.

~Softly start to sing a song that the students know. (We use songs the students are working on in music class and seasonal songs.) As more students join in the song gets louder until all of the students are singing.

~The “S” sound. Softly start the “s” sound. The students will follow your lead.

These three examples have been used successfully in classroom I am observing. I was amazed to see how the simplest thing could focus the student’s attention. Once the attention was focused the teacher transitioned to the next activity.

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