Colloquium Reflection

My Colloquium class was very interesting this past semester because I can say that I was with one of the best teachers from Boricua College. This year I had more time with the opportunity to learn and practice about my career Early Childhood, which was excellent. Also, during the Colloquium class, we met every Tuesday where we discussed about our practice in the classroom, where we could observe the students and teachers. In fact, the facilitator Linda Perez always made sure that I understand the lesson, we always read about the topic and then discussed about it. Overall, these logs were very beneficial because they provided me more opportunity to improve in the English language as I am from the Dominican Republic and Spanish is my main language. In colloquium, we spoke about any topic and then to expressed ourselves in writing, which was good because you develop the skills of writing.
Thus, Colloquium class helped me to lose the panic to talk
Unfortunately, this child died because in the case file, was five social workers involved and one of them wanted to be promoted and closed the case prematurely. Furthermore, in one of our class discussions, my facilitator also said that we need to ignore as much possible the negative behavior from disruptive students, that sometimes we need to pay no attention to them. In other words, these types of students will always will try to challenge you, as they want to see how far they can go when you give attention to inappropriate behaviors. Really, what I learned with this topic was how to manage a student with Attention-Deficit Disorder (ADD), and that as a future teacher, I must create a healthy environment for those types of kids, to keep the classroom atmosphere without