2nd Grade - Blog Post #2

The second week of field experience, my class lost a student who transferred to a different school. This specific student happened to be a big distraction for the class and was difficult to work with, lots of behavioral issues and no respect for authority. After he was gone you could tell the entire atmosphere of the class completely changed. Although there are still of course students with issues and the class is no where near perfect, just taking this one student away from the equation has seemed to make the teacher's job much better and the class as a whole easier to gain control of. I had no idea that just one student could make such a difference in a classes entire progress as a whole. We of course hope the student who has left us is getting the help he needs, but according to my co-teacher their family refuses to believe anything any sort of teacher, administrator, and even the student's even peers have to say about their behavior and focus so they in turn refuse to seek help for whatever the issue may be. Most of the other students in the class who have behavior problems are at least manageable and willing to work with you, so classroom management has become a lot more probable and you can tell everyone is just more focused and happy to not have to stop every few minutes for the teacher to reprimand this student anymore.