Author Question: As so often happens during the early part of the school year, you receive a new student. Elisha ... (Read 54 times)

Evvie72 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

As so often happens during the early part of the school year, you receive a new student. Elisha comes into your room clinging to her mother's hand. You greet her and talk quietly for a few moments while your students are working independently, but inside you're thinking, Oh, great. I just got to a place where my procedures are running pretty smoothly, and now I need to get Elisha up to speed with regard to what I expect.. The most effective way to do this would be to

a. assign a friendly, responsible student who has learned the procedures well to be Elisha's buddy and to help her get acclimated to your expectations.
b. introduce Elisha and say, Because she's new, we're going to start over with our work on rules and procedures..
c. ask Elisha to just follow along, telling her that she'll figure things out quickly.
d. pull Elisha out of group work time later that day and go over rules and procedures with her.

Question 2

It's Friday of the first week of school, and Mr. Ruiz's students just finished a fairly intensive literacy lesson. There are about seven minutes left before the class is supposed to leave for lunch. In what way might you recommend he spend the time?

a. Tell the children they have earned a break and give them free choice until it's time to line up; he can use the time to catch up on paperwork.
b. Begin going over the instructions for the mathematics activity the children will be starting when they return from lunch.
c. Stretch out the current task to cover the next seven minutes.
d. Lead them in a low-pressure but engaging activity, like reading to them or playing a simple game.