Blog #3

Blog Post #3

1. What does the cooperative teacher do to establish a positive relationship with each student?   The classroom I was in this week had a substitute teacher. Yet there was one teacher that came in to help with classroom management who seemed to have a very good relationship with most students. This teacher started by going around the room and asking how each students day had been and starting them off by giving them a high five. This routine helped the students to trust her and to look at her as more of a friend than a teacher.

2. What clear routines are established in the classroom?  How do they support a productive learning environment? One routine I noticed in the classroom I was in was that the students had all been taught to raise their hands with a different amount of fingers to say what they needed. For example if a student needed to use the restroom they would put up a number 1. The teacher would then go over to their desk assess their work and let them go to the bathroom, or do  whatever they needed. This routine established order and kept the classroom calm. This also established a productive learning environment because they were silent while doing this and knew that before they could go do the thing desired their work would be assessed. Another routine the teacher had was saying a phrase such as hey class, and the class would stop what they were doing and answer hey teacher. This routine helped when it was getting too rowdy and also helped so the teacher could explain assignments and other things.

  
3. What has your cooperative teacher done to make students feel loved and safe?
 To make students feel loved and safe, the teacher established a good relationship with the students and was able to establish classroom rules which helped the students to know what was and wasn't acceptable. The teacher also has set emergency rules to help the students know what to do in case of emergency.