The past two weeks there have been very few things that were worth noticing and reflecting on. Part of this fact is due to the short week before the long Thanksgiving weekend and part of this fact is due to that I have really gotten into the swing of things in my classroom and very few things that students do or say cause me to break a metaphorical sweat.
One interesting thing that happened these past two weeks was that I have had two different students on various occasions have melt downs over various things that happened during the school day that I then had to handle in a way that allowed the rest of the class to continue learning. I was able to help both students calm down and return to learning by taking them out to the hallway and talking to them about the incident that caused them to be too upset to focus on learning and then helping them come up with ideas for how to avoid finding themselves in the same situation in the future.
Being faced with these challenging students and situations I have had opportunity to improve my classroom management and my relationship with these individuals, which I hope will help these students to be more responsive to future instruction from me or my MT and to help these students to be more successful students overall. Since these encounters occurred I have yet to see any measurable improvement in the way these two students respond to authority figures. I hope to see improvement as the school year continues.
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