5. When things go wrong in class.

 5. When things go wrong in class. 

Look at the list of things that can go wrong in a class.

- There was an internal disturbance.

- There was an external disturbance.

- The class went out of control.

- An activity took too long.

- You had extra time.

- An activity did not work.

- An activity was too difficult.

a) Explain how you would deal with four of these situations.

It is necessary to know what to do in case we face one to these activies because it is pretty normal since there are many unpredictable children. If there was an internal disturbance in my classroom, I would try to keep everybody under control. I mean, an internal disturbance could be a fight between two classmates. So, it is important to separate them and stop the fight. We must create a harmonius relationship between all the students. If it is possible, it would be still great to make them see each other as siblings. Only in this way they are going to take care each other. To avoid problems with activities, it is necessary to have a fallback plan because if an actvity did not work, we would have another one to teach the children. We must have a lesson plan as we have seen in the previous classes to avoid that an activity takes too long.  With a lesson plan we can have under control the time that an activity would take too long to develop it. If had extra time, i would not steal children´s time because there is a set time and we must respect it. Children need to go out of the classrooms and enojoy their lovely early age, but if for any reason i had to continue with the class, we can use our emergency activities that go with the class without changing the topic or at least adapt it to the class.

b) Would you follow any of the tips presented on chapter 8? Do you think the tips would work for you? Explain

Of course i would follow all the tips presented on chapter 8 because planning our work makes our life easier because we are not going to face problems like the mentions above. The activities would take so long because we would have our work planned. As i said before planning our wok saves us time so that we can give a class with more experience. Having planned our class can give us more confidence at the class time. This confidence is not only good for teacher but for students because they are going to receive a better class. Probably more explained, and only in this way the children would grasp perfectly what we want to convey. Furthermore, having plan our work brings a bunch of perks while we are in the classroom. We can just sit back and observe what´s going on instead of planning the next activity in our head as i said before it saves us time. Another advantage we can find is that planning our work allows us to use more of our energy and enthusiasm to enjoy what we are doing instead of worrying about what to do next, or looking at the page of the book. Finally, we can put into practice the long term planning which is pretty useful since we can find support in the parents because we can mention them what we want to convey the children. They can help the children to get interested in the topic we want to give them, or we can ask the parents about what topics the kids are interested to make the class still more interested for the children.

Written by Edwin León