When things go wrong in class

In my experience at teaching, I remember that one day three of my students started fighting without any reason. At the beginning, I was kind of surprised because it was the first time that I saw kindergarten students fighting. I didn’t know what to do. They seemed to be good guys, but they didn’t. To deal with the situation, The teacher who was evaluating me helped me to control the class. Then, I took the three boys who started the fight, and I made them say sorry to her classmates. Also, I punished them for 20 minutes. I told them, “You won’t play a game because of your misbehaving.” Then, they were saying that it wasn’t fear, but after that, they started to behave in a better way though I continued having more problems with them in other classes.

Sometimes, it’s difficult to treat children, yet there are a lot of ways to control every bad situation in the classroom. I got some problems with a boy for the rest of my teaching practicum. What was it? That boy usually said nasty words. All they the boys who treated with him were complaining about this problem. First, I talked to the teacher because I was worried for this problem. The teacher told me that the boy had had many problems in his family; he saw his parents discussing in an inappropriate way many times. “Because the boy was exposed to this environment, he behaves so bad in classes”, argued the teacher.

I talked to him, and I told him that saying nasty words is not good. Since that day, every time that I noticed that he was saying those words; I caught his attention saying, “If you do that again, you won’t play a funny game.” This method worked for me.

There were some moments in which my students were out of control because they couldn’t understand some activities, and I had to change the activities. For example, once, I developed an activity using the family as a topic. They had to cut and colour some pieces of paper; the activity was called “the family finger.” Because they couldn’t cut in an a good way each member of the family finger, they started making a lot of noise, so I made them do another activity.

The tips that the chapter 8 mentions are so useful; sometimes, we don’t notice, but those tips can help us teach in a better way; also, It can be useful for solving problem in different situations we are involved.

I got a lot of situations at teaching my students, but generally, It was a good experience. Every single kid was a complete world. I really enjoyed what I did with them. They were so difficult to deal with, yet they made my days happy in the classroom. I learned a lot from them; I realized that teaching is not that easy, but from now on, I want to be better; I hope I become an excellent teacher.