1. Now that you are in the final weeks of this ED449e course, what have you decided is the importance of social studies in the elementary curriculum? What, exactly, do you think students learn from being exposed to a social studies curriculum at the elementary level? Should we think of eliminating social studies at the K-3 level and start in Grade 4?
2. What are three things that you learned from having taken this course? What did you learn that you had not known before?
Leslie and classroom management
Are there any classroom management tricks/techniques that you use with your students that you have found to be efficient? Did you learn about these approaches while you were observing in your present classroom? In essence, how do you keep students focused? How do you start the day efficiently? How do you keep your room organized? How do you get the students to move from one activity to another? How do you maintain the students' attention? How do you make sure students follow class rules?
And finally, have you ever tried to use a management technique that worked with one group, tried it again with another group of students only to have it fail? Why do you think this happened?
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Since you now have spent some time with your cooperating teacher, what are some things you like that he/she does in the classroom that you would want to do in your own classroom?
Similarly, what are some things you don’t like that you would do differently in your own classroom?