Second Visit

Today I went to my school again for my second visit. I arrived at the school with my friend and we went to the front office to sign in. I went to the classroom that I had been in the pervious week. Today I was supposed to be assigned the students I was working with. I went into my classroom and my teacher was absent and there was a substitute teacher in. She didn’t know what to do with me and put me in the back of the classroom to read to a student who was acting out until the students changed rooms.
My friends mom works at the school and saw that there was a substitute teacher in the room and went to speak to the VIP’s person to see what I should do. The coordinator of VIPs called the classroom I was in and spoke with me. She said the day before there was an incident in the classroom and she didn’t feel comfortable with me in there so she switched me to the classroom that my friend was in. I went in there and was assigned to work with a group of nine students. We sat at a large round table and the teacher gave me a stack of words that the students were learning. I held the cards up and together the students would read aloud what the word was. Some students were quicker than others and some students did not know any of the words. It was as though the same students were able to read the words. After we finished going through the new words, the students read from their books then answered their worksheet pages.
The class switched mid way and I worked with a second group of students. There were about ten students in my second group. The teacher gave me a new stack of words, because the two groups were on different reading levels. We went through the words and I noticed the same things. The same students were able to read the words out loud. Once we went through the words, this group read from their book as well and answered their worksheet pages.
The students I worked with this week were a lot more well behaved then the students I had worked with the week before. I also found the teacher and her assistant to be very involved and had very positive attitudes towards the students. They did not yell at the students if they did something wrong. They had set rules and for the most part all the students behaved. It was a positive atmosphere that the teachers created.