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A Day With The Challenging Class Essay

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Vignette 1: A Day With The 'Challenging ' Class This year 9 class was described as the most challenging class in the whole school with a significant amount of students with attendance issues, suspensions and under behaviour monitoring programs. I have been observing and team teaching this class with my supervising teacher and the students were not 'bad ' students, they were simply just talkative and liked to move around the classroom. At times, the students can be disengaged and caused distractions within the classroom. My supervising teacher had the class for 1 term, and he is still setting up structures for the class such as getting students into the routine of coming to class on time, mobile phones in the bags and bags on the ground in the classroom etc. He also utilised positive behaviour management to promote politeness, respect and responsibility to the class and I have seen improvements in students ' behaviour during my professional experience. Tuesday, 13th September, it was a warm, sunny day and I was excited for the school day as it was sports day. My supervising teacher had advised me that he will be away for today and a casual teacher, whom I have worked with, will be taking his classes today. She has been taking this Year 9 class once every fortnight and therefore she was familiar with the students. First period was science with this Year 9 class, by that time I have built a little rapport with students and the students were respectful towards me. My

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