Greg Week 10

This week was a dramatic shift from my previous placement. Went from having six students to twenty-two. It is just very different, not better not worse but different, and so far, I have really enjoyed getting to know these new students.

This week was mostly just observations and kind of getting to know the students and build a new relationship with them I do not think that I could successfully be an educator for them if I do not know them. I have been focusing on learning names and trying to have a little chat with each of them. I did not get to have to chat with them all or learn all their names, yet! I will get there I feel like I have about 60% of the names down. I would say that this week I have focused on standard number 8, collaborative relationships. The competent teacher builds and maintains collaborative relationships to foster cognitive, linguistic, physical, and social and emotional development.  This teacher works as a team member with professional colleagues, students, parents or guardians, and community members.  I have been trying to build new working relationships with the students on this classroom, and so far, absolutely loving it.

The school that I am in is a one to one school. This means that each student has their own iPad provided by the school that they keep at school. The class uses the iPad pretty sparingly as it is since they are a little bit younger, 2^nd grade. One of the students discovered that they could use to iPad to send a picture to all the other students in the classroom, using “airdrop.” When I discovered what was happening, I told the teacher not knowing if this was something she was allowing. We took this as a time to talk about digital citizenship. I would relate this to standard 4, learning environment. The competent teacher structures a safe and healthy learning environment that facilitates cultural and linguistic responsiveness, emotional well-being, self-efficacy, positive social interaction, mutual respect, active engagement, academic risk-taking, self-motivation, and personal goal-setting. The students claimed they did not know where these were coming from. So, the teacher and I decided that we would talk about how on the net just like in person you should never accept things or anything from a stranger. That if something on the internet doesn’t feel right then you should not do it. It was found out, and we knew, which student was doing it of course so there never was any fear of strangers sending messages. But it was a good learning opportunity to discuss digital citizenship and internet safety.

What a successful first week at my new placement!