Post on 28-Sep-2020
Classroom stratigies:
My mentor used the permission card to go to
the toilet. She adopted it to teach the students
discipline and follow the teacher rules.
According to Brandt (2011), to manage any
classroom successfully teachers have to set
rules for taking permissions to raise hand,
borrow pencil, or go to the toilet because it
helps teachers to offer the smooth operation
of classroom environment.
I followed the rewarding strategy that called
'Star of the Thursday." Each week I gave
coupons for the students who behave well and
participate in the classroom. According to the
behaviorism theory, the learners imitate and
repeat correct behaviors when they receive
positive reinforcement (Lightbown & Spada,
2003).
I adopted the K-W-L chart before reading
the story aloud. I use it to motivate students
and prepare them for the story. According to
Crawford and his group (2011), the K-W-L
process helps teachers to build a better
starting for learning, and students become
more engaged in reading when they share the
results of their learning.
My mentor followed the guided reading
approach to promoting students' reading
skills. She spent 25 minutes each day for
teaching a small group. However, in the
guided reading the students are grouped
according to their levels and the teacher focus
on specific reading structures that the group
need to improve such as word knowledge or
fluency (Calkins, 2001).
My mentor followed the differentiation
approach because she has special needs
students and different levels at the classroom.
According to Bursuck & Friend (2009), this
approach requires teachers to give different
tasks for students depending on their abilities
and level.
My mentor and I followed group work
method at the classroom to increase students'
communication skills. According to
communicative teaching method, group work
not only makes language learning more
interesting, but it encourages students to
develop their communicative competence as
well as linguistic competence (Qing-xue &
Jin-fang, 2007).
My mentor used the punishment strategy to
stop misbehaving students to cheat in the
exam. She did not allow them to go out for a
break and made them copy the words from
10-50 times. According to Kyriacou (2007),
students will stop misbehaving when they
find unpleasant punishments. As a result,
students apologized and promised to not cheat
again, so the strategy worked well.
My mentor used technology tools to teach
students the lesson instead of talk orally all
the time. In fact, the technology has a vital
role in teaching students, and it motivates
them by presenting a vast variety of new
knowledge in an interesting way that today's
learners like it (Cole, 2006).
References list:
Brandt, S. (2011). 101 "Answers" for New Teachers and Their Mentors: Effective Teaching Tips for Daily Classroom Use. United States of America: Eye On Education.
Bursuck, D & Friend, M. (2009). Including Students with Special Needs. United
States of America: Pearson Education.
Calkins, L. (2001). The Art of Teaching Reading. United States Of America: Longman.
Cole, G.(2006). 101 Essential lists For Using ICT In The Classroom. London: Continuum International Publishing Group.
Crawford, A. Freppon, P. Olge, D. & Temple, C. (2011). All Children Read: Teaching
for Literacy in Today's Diverse Classrooms. United States Of America: Pearson
Education.
Jin-fang, S. & Qing-xue, L.(2007). Journal of US-China Education Review. USA:
David Publishing Company.
Kyriacou, C. (2007). Essential Teaching Skills. UK: Nelson Thornes.
Ligthbown, P & Spada, N. (2003). How Language are Learned. UK: Oxford University Press.