Weekly Reflection 10/5

This week I feel like I took my weakness from last week and turned it into another strength. My Friday lesson turned out to be a lot more time efficient and I did not feel like I had half the class sitting around doing nothing and the other half struggling to finish everything. I feel like I was able to pace myself better and having one extra activity really helped fill the hour and twenty minute Language Arts time period. Something that really helped was observing the time that my CT took for her own lessons like we were asked to do. I also think it helps for me to keep having back up activities like I did this week for when I get asked what can I do now?

One weakness that I am noticing is knowing what to do when it comes to disciplinary matters. Another team teacher found some scary things written in a boys journal, threats to him and the school. I was in the room at the time and he had asked me what I would do with something like that. I realized that my answer was go straight to the principal with it and I wonder if that's the best option in all cases. Where do I draw the line between things I deal with and things that get sent down for higher forces to deal with. This was an extreme case that I believe should have been sent down first thing, but I am really beginning to think about behavioral extremes that I may need to deal with now and in the future and how I would handle them.

Something that would help me this week is talking to the school councelor and principal to see what sorts of things they would like to know about rather than just the teacher dealing with. I would also like to talk to my CT's about disciplinary measures that they use and what suggestions they have for me to use.