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Date: Sarah House Kindergarten - Reading/Language Arts 1.
Notice how Ms. House immediately redirects students for getting up off the carpet. Immediate redirection is important when maintaining and reinforcing classroom policies. 2.
What is Ms. House accomplishing by asking John to help her with Calendar? 3.
What is the purpose of the Hands Go Up poem/song? 4.
Notice how Ms. House reviews previously learned concepts before continuing her lesson from yesterday. This helps bring those concepts back to the forefront of the students' minds and provides another opportunity to learn if mastery wasn't accomplished before. 5.
How does Ms. House check for understanding about the non-fiction text feature? 6.
Notice how all of Ms. House's students are sitting on the carpet as she reads. Consider what things went into developing that level of self-discipline in her Kindergarten students. 7.
Here is another example of the routines and procedures Ms. House has put in place as part of her classroom management plan. The students are clearly accustomed to this "Check 1..2..3" redirection strategy as evidenced by their immediate compliance. Redirection strategies, such as this one to recapture attention, should be used consistently to obtain optimum effectiveness. Sierra Kennedy
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She quickly addresses the behavior to have the students immediately sit down. She also gave students a time to
get up and move around to help minimize the amount of times students were out of place.
By asking John to help her with Calendar, it gives the students more responsibility and also helps to keep them
engaged and feel like they have a job/purpose. It also may help with students who need a little more help staying
engaged.
This was a chant used to get students ready for their story time. It helps them go over expectations in a song form
to get them ready before the lesson.
This helps to refresh students memories on what was previously learned to ensure they still remember it, and to
help students who may have not retained it, it gives them a second refresher on the material.
She asks questions and waits for responses to ensure the students have an understanding on the text.
Ms. House likely started the year off by setting these expecations to where at this point in the year, they know the
expectation. She also uses hand signals as a non verbal way for students to communicate their needs.
By using methods like this, it can help with classroom management and preventing disruptive behavior. Students
know the expectations from the beginning which helps to keep them engaged during the lesson.
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After reading the Sally Ride book, what strategies does Ms. House use to check for understanding? 9.
Notice how Ms. House provides immediate feedback to students and gives a rationale behind the praise she gives also. Students, especially young children, pick up on the rationale and since they are eager to please, will try to repeat the behaviors that lead to the praise. 10.
Notice all of the things Ms. House has on the walls of the classroom. The Word Wall will continually be added to throughout the school year; the Writing Topics that students helped develop and illustrate; the classroom rules posters that are in a place of prominence so that students can refer to them at any time; and the many other reference materials. You can always rewind the video to look for more. 11.
Again, Ms. House reviews class rules with the students and provides a rationale for why it is important. Why do you think this is important? Is it equally important with older students? 12.
The Kindergarten student is going to get off task. Here is a great example of how Ms. House minimizes the amount of time the student is off-task by acknowledging the student's question about her make-up but not elaborating. This subtly discourages the student from continuing to focus on the make-up topic. 13.
Ms. House is working with these three kids only for an extended period of time. Based on what you have seen, why do you think she is working with them separately during center time? 14.
During this portion of the small group lesson, which instructional strategies did you observe Ms. House do? Ms. House had the students form small groups to discuss and then connected as a group so students could share
what they remembered.
Positive praise is one of the easiest ways to get students to do the behavior you are wanting. They always want to
do their best or as good as the person receiving the praise, so it will usually get other students attention and
correct the behavior.
There are many things throughout the classroom that can be used as tools to the students as they look around the
class. It also helps keep the information fresh in their minds when they can look around and see it on the walls.
It is important to consistently go over classroom expectations and that the students understand the reasoning
behind why they are to follow so they truly understand. It is equally important with older kids because many
students want to know the why,
It is good to not make the students feel ignored, but when it is off topic she did a good job of subtly redirecting the
student to focus back on the conversation.
She is working with them separately during center time because they need a little extra help with the lesson, so
pulling them aside as a small group allows her to focus better on their specific needs.
Ms. House was testing the students on their letters and sounds to encourage them to spell out words
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