I’ve got a primary four class this year which is good because I had five last year so isn’t too bad, but I can definitely see the difference that almost a year and a half can make in development and maturity.
The first struggle is the fact it’s a class of 33, last year I had 32 and its just a lot when there is one of me. I’m struggling to see how effective a teacher I can be for that many pupils and how do you possibly get to know every pupil and build up a relationship in four weeks.
Maths in Eastern isn’t set like some schools they use the chilli challenge instead to allow pupils to choose what level suits them. This is good. But it can sometimes result in pupils choosing activities that are too easy or choosing the same as their friends. This is something that I will need to do extra reading on to make sure I’m properly prepared.
There aren’t any specific ASN but there are a lot of pupils in the process of being referred for a range of different things.
Each pupil has a diary that they take home to show parents with any specific comments. this is good because it allows us to feedback to parents at the end of each day/week.
Overall the behaviour in the class wasn’t very good. The CT struggled to get the pupils attention using various attention grabbers (clapping, counting etc) so I think ill need to work on ways to get their attention quickly and easily. The pupils were also very chatty during lessons and teaching, the CT. gave out verbal warnings and pupils the. Had to move their names down the behaviour ladder if they continued with this behaviour. I think. My biggest thing for the pupils will be behaviour management and making sure they are listening and engaged at all times. A lot of the pupils had a tendency to get up and wander out of their seats which was very annoying so this is also something that will need to be worked on.
I need to take everything I’ve seen today with a pinch of salt as it was just one day and the pupils have two teachers so I might see something completely different when I go back.
