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Journal #5 : Alfie Kohn

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I believe that the school that I am at right now is very closely related to Alfie Kohn’s version of a good classroom. The classroom is warm and full of supplies for the students such as books, colored pencils markers, and toys. The desks are in groups or clusters where all the students can look at each other. The teacher is rarely in front of the students lecturing they always have an activity, center, iPad or game to play. On the walls, the students have their worksheets and activities posted. The students are engaged and love answering their teacher's questions with raised hands or shouted answers. The students have been very warm and kind to me and have noticed that I look a little different than them. The class discussions are lead by the teacher but the students talk to either directly as well. Questions are asked by the teacher and students equally. I do not agree with Kohn’s opinion on when a teacher says “who can tell me…” is a bad sign because I believe that...
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Journal #6 : Last Day :(

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Today was my last day at my school. I am so sad to leave them and my best friend/roommate Jess and I made care packages for the kids before we left. We bought them little necklaces, pencils, eraser toppers, and stickers. We walked into the building carrying the bag of goodies and my ukelele. All the kids knew it was our last day and then kept asking where we would go after we were done visiting them. One of the nicest kids I had met there asked me if I would stay with Mrs.Corrado after because he thought that teachers lived together. I read with the same kids I do on Thursdays and taught myself some tricks watching youtube videos on how to help them read when I felt like the answer was obvious. I covered parts of the words and ask them to sound them out and we’d sound out all the words together, this showed me that reading with young kids can be less challenging when you use the tools you’ve learned. I played a matching game with four students in the class that had all missing piec...
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