Host Reflection

For this seventh reflection, I decided to focus on how to find the good in every child. For the past several weeks in my host classroom, I have observed different ways that my teacher finds the good in her students. One way is that she tries to get to know her students and what their story is; she uses that information to help improve the students’ feelings. She also finds out about their hobbies such as some boys do soccer and football, other boys are in boy scouts, some girls do dance classes, and other girls love to read. Another way my host teacher finds the good in students is that there is this boy who constantly acts out because he loves the attention, my host teacher usually plays this off by incorporating him into the lesson as a main
I feel that this is so important. I also feel that my host teacher tries to fix problems rather than fix her students; she tries to find the good in every student even if they drive her nuts. It is important to teach students that they are good in different ways; this helps make for a better learning environment. As my host teacher made the effort to get to know her students, she was able to praise or connect with her students on that level when they were having a difficult day. By knowing your students and have conversations about those interests helps make the students feel good and feel like the teacher cares about them. My host uses a form of the “thank you” method by thanking students for being on task when asked, helping other students, and for doing the agenda on the board every morning. By thanking students for good behaviors or having the students clip down on the behavior chart, I believe that my host teacher has had a decrease in bad behaviors. Overall, I have noticed her effort to find good in the different students even on the days where it was very hard to do.
Some questions that came to my mind when I was reflecting and observing how to find the good in every child were the following. What are some ways to find good in every child? How to you be proactive with a student who consistently acts out? I know it is easier to find the bad things about students over the good things, what are some techniques