During my placement, I was put in a grade six class that was under the care of two teachers on different days of the week. This arrangement was very interesting as both teachers had different strategies and methods for carrying out lessons and this therefore changed the students’ attitude towards learning and completing tasks. Thus, through having two teachers, students seemed to be more engaged and involved then what I’d observed from my previous placements which just one teacher. Despite my initial beliefs that this arrangement would be tedious and difficult, both teachers constantly kept in contact with each other, filling each other in on what stage students were at and what needed to be addressed. Thus, I liked this arrangement and felt the students benefited from these alternative methods.
Something I didn’t like that could’ve been improved on during my placement was in relation to the reading and writing literacy lesson my grade six class would repeat each week. During this lesson, the teacher would read two chapters from the novel The Hatchet by Gary Paulsen and the class would sit on the floor and listen to the story. Thus, after this students’ would be advised to go back to their seats and write a short summary on the two chapters. Because this happened weekly through observation I felt the class wasn’t interpreting the novel as well as they could’ve been through doing the same activity each week. I believe giving students some interesting questions about the novel and its storyline would engage students more as they showed to just be copying information from the novel to summarise what happened rather then using their own knowledge.
Through my observation during placement, for this particular age group, popular classroom novels shown are The Hatchet, Wonder, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Chinese Cinderella.
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