Number Two!

February 12th, 2015 Tell about an opportunity you had to work with a small group

This past week I was in my second grade class and the teacher asked me to take a group of kids who have a harder time focusing on their assignments to the back table and work with them. I always get excited when I am able to actually work with the kids and not just copy papers or grade assignments. As the group of the three boys were coming back to the table, I knew what was going to happen because I have seen how they work and I know how they were going to be when they got to the table. As I suspected once they got to me, they immediately started whispering to each other and asking where the others were on their assignments/sharing answers with each other. So I seperated them as much as I could. I had them each sit one chair apart so they weren't right together. This group of boys has a really hard time not talking to each other and it was supposed to be quiet in the classroom. But we worked on it. I had to remind them so many times that they needed to keep working. I would lightly touch their papers when they were off task so they knew to get back to it. We were together for about 10 minutes and it went pretty well. I love those boys, even though they are hard to handle a lot of the time. It was fun working with them.

Since my last post we have talked about segregation in the classrooms and things that happened in the earlier times in schools. I decided to look around at the school I am at and see if there is still segregation today. Not racism segregation but different types of segregation. And suprisingly I saw a few. The kids in my classroom don't realize that is what they are doing, but it happens. The girls stay away from the boys, if a student has some sort of disability the other students don't play with them, and I saw that they split off into groups of the "hyper" students and the quiet students.

I was actually kind of suprised that there are ways that segregation is still in school. I am glad to see that color of skin and race don't have any issues (at least not in the school I am working in) but it is interesting to see the different types of segregation that happens in the schools today.