Chapter 5 Reflection

In chapter 5, I liked how the authors gave a list of rules for students to follow during science time. It was nice to have the rules provided. This way as a teacher you can use the rules that are in the book instead of coming up with the rules on your own. If a teacher had to come up with the rules on their own, they may miss something important that may seem obvious. It is very important for students to practice safety in the classroom, especially during science time when students are doing experiments.
The section that the authors: Bass, Contant, and Carin talked about on managing classroom behavior, I felt was an important section. A lot of examples that books give are about the perfect situation where none of the students are arguing and everyone gets along. It is a very real thing to have students misbehaving in a classroom. I liked how the authors gave detailed descriptions on how to handle the behavior and suggestions on appropriate punishments. As beginning teachers, we may not know what appropriate punishment may be. There may be instances where we go too easy on a student or other times we may be too hard. To have ideas as to what appropriate punishment is, helps us as future teachers know what the right balance is.
I did find that the first few pages of the chapter seemed like review from the introductory course on teaching. The authors went into some detail on how to write a lesson plan with good objectives. I found it to be a good review of what needed to be put into a lesson plan. As future teachers we are not experienced enough to write perfect lesson plans, so having this review is a good thing. I felt that it was like a refresher of what to do and what not to do. Until we get years of experience doing this in our classroom, we will need to be refreshed to make sure that we are on the right track to making good lesson plans with objectives that are really objectives and not procedures.