According to the Holly Article, when journaling it can be helpful to go back to your past entries and analyze them. When going through my blog from this semester I have found some interesting similarities. I find myself talking about specific parts of a day or focusing close on something I have done. It seems that my entries here are taking form of my thoughts into a situation that happened in class. I deeply analyze the way I may have taught a lesson or the actions of a specific student on one day. This helps me dig into deeper feelings and try to make a better understanding of what he/she was thinking when they were doing that specific action.
For instance, on week 4 when I talked about the student with behavior problems and her coloring, I may have needed to take a different perspective. This student may not have been misbehaving on purpose. She might have had something going on at home or something happened that morning that she was upset about. We still notice this student get off-task during whole group instruction and constantly needs specific praise. There are things that we as teachers can do to help or even avoid this off-task behavior. It just takes the teacher to do a little extra work to help his or her students.
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