Sei's Chapter 3 reflection
Creating a Purposeful Environment and Daily Schedule
Chapter 3 Reflection
In this chapter, Taberski does everything possible, but actually teach the students for us. She discusses the best possible way to arrange our classrooms and the purposes of those arrangements. Her reasons as to why she focuses on a comfortable teaching/learning environment are highly reasonable and logical. It’s great to know that a purposeful environment gives us more time and effort to be spent on what truly matters-the children.
It’s interesting that Taberski’s classroom layout doesn’t contain individual student’s desks. The concept is highly radical, considering desks are highly associated with learning and studying, but her logic to this idea is very reasonable and couldn’t make more sense. “Having children store their materials like this, instead of in desks, which can become terribly messy and unmanageable, enables them to direct less attention to materials and more time to learning.” I agree with her statement because I’ve seen it happen in my first grade class at Mililani Waena. I can confidently say that there have been several incidents thus far in which students have been instructed to stop doing their work and clean out their “tool box” on their desk because the mess is distracting them from doing their work efficiently. Although I do see the logistics of this concept, I wonder if there are any long-term negative effects. One that I’m thinking about in particular is that of poor organization skills. With children not having their own individual space to account for, I’m wondering if that would lower their abilities to organize and keep tidy in the future.
“Show, don’t tell”. Yes, that’s right. Teachers should show, not just tell with words. I like Taberski’s “Chart Wall and Word Wall”. The importance of displaying children’s artwork has always been emphasized, but displaying words and charts are also highly important. This way, children always have something to refer to and that will positively enhance their learning experience.
Chapter 3 Reflection
In this chapter, Taberski does everything possible, but actually teach the students for us. She discusses the best possible way to arrange our classrooms and the purposes of those arrangements. Her reasons as to why she focuses on a comfortable teaching/learning environment are highly reasonable and logical. It’s great to know that a purposeful environment gives us more time and effort to be spent on what truly matters-the children.
It’s interesting that Taberski’s classroom layout doesn’t contain individual student’s desks. The concept is highly radical, considering desks are highly associated with learning and studying, but her logic to this idea is very reasonable and couldn’t make more sense. “Having children store their materials like this, instead of in desks, which can become terribly messy and unmanageable, enables them to direct less attention to materials and more time to learning.” I agree with her statement because I’ve seen it happen in my first grade class at Mililani Waena. I can confidently say that there have been several incidents thus far in which students have been instructed to stop doing their work and clean out their “tool box” on their desk because the mess is distracting them from doing their work efficiently. Although I do see the logistics of this concept, I wonder if there are any long-term negative effects. One that I’m thinking about in particular is that of poor organization skills. With children not having their own individual space to account for, I’m wondering if that would lower their abilities to organize and keep tidy in the future.
“Show, don’t tell”. Yes, that’s right. Teachers should show, not just tell with words. I like Taberski’s “Chart Wall and Word Wall”. The importance of displaying children’s artwork has always been emphasized, but displaying words and charts are also highly important. This way, children always have something to refer to and that will positively enhance their learning experience.
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