Over the entire year I have noticed something that as a teacher, I have always thought was necessary. The first thing is that the students have been placed into table mates, which was done at the beginning of the year, randomly. This is okay because I know that the teacher does not know personalities or who would make good partners for other various reasons. However, it is now November and I have noticed that the students are still sitting in the same place. There have been more disruptions in class and students not getting along where they are sitting. I think that it is necessary for my MT or I to re-arrange the students into new places and I think this would help with the behavior issues we have been seeing lately. Also, we know the students better now and some of the placements we made, not knowing the students before, are clearly a bad situation.
Another thing I have noticed was that the bulletin board outside has not been changed since the first day of school. I love doing bulletin boards but I am nervous to ask my MT to change it. Sometimes she can take things a little funny so I am nervous to offend her. Also, she is kind of picky about what things turn out to look like so I am afraid to do it and have her not like it! When I worked at a school, I always volunteered to make the bulletin boards (we had about 5 in each classroom -4 that had to be changed monthly and one in the hall that had to be changed monthly as well!) So since I have noticed this over the semester, when I return from break, I am going to ask my MT if I can do something different with the board in the hallway.
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