Reflection
Description
My sixth period students begin to enter the classroom and many of them speak to me as they enter. The bell rings and I walk into the classroom closing the door behind me. I immediately begin telling students to sit and begin the warm-up that is written on one of the white boards. As the students settle they begin their warm-up, but many of the same students continue to laugh and play during this period. I call for the warm-ups, which are then collected. Daily I launch the lesson with few interruptions, but there is always the occasional excessive talking. After the lesson has been launched I let the students loose to explore the concepts at hand. I begin to circulate the room to assess students and to keep students on task. One student in particular will just sit back, talk, and laugh if allowed. I went up to the students and sat down beside him. After sitting down I said come on lets work through this problem. The students reply was that he does not belong in this class, and that he does not like and can’t do math. I said come on Forest lets try to work through this together. Forest attempted to work through the problem as I had asked of him. After working through one of the problems I asked him to see if he couldn’t do the next one and that I would be back to check on him. I continued to monitor the students helping out when necessary. I eventually went back to check on his progress and he did the problem correctly for the most part. It was now time to go over the problems as a group. Before I could finish completely going over the problem the bell had rung and class was over.
