Some of the students weren't behaving as normal. That is to say some of the ones that followed directions before, were not following directions today. This is something that I hear about when ever substitutes are brought up in class, where students will be more susceptible to follow the lead of a classmate than follow the lead of the substitute teacher.
Then when work time rolled around it was tattle city. Normally, our teacher had ways to counter tattling by asking the tattler to just remove themselves from the situation. This was rather difficult because everyone was tattling on each other. The substitute announce to the class that if they could not keep their voices down to a "1" then she would need it to be a "0". This worked well and the students started getting their work done.
Earlier we had two boys, who are really good friends, get into an argument about blocks. It got so heated it ruined both of their mornings. I tried to talk to one, we'll call him boy A, but all he could say that the other kept making him mad. So I talked to the other one, we'll call him boy B, who was really frustrated at the whole situation. I asked him if he and the other boy were still friends and he asked, "How could we be friends when he keeps getting mad at me and yelling at me?" I told him that they were just having a bit of a disagreement and that if boy A kept getting mad at boy B, then boy B should just give boy A some space until he calmed down. I felt really bad for boy B because sometimes he doesn't realize that he is making boy A upset.
What would you have done?
I can even remember throughout my years of school how different the classroom behavior/ atmosphere was, even HIGH SCHOOL, as soon as the kids saw there was a sub. Crazy!Can only imagine how awful it was for kindergartners. Subs are brave people.
ReplyDeleteI also had a sub few times in our classroom. It wasn't that bad, but there were some students that usually make good chooses that were not behaving well for the sub.
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