module 4

In this week's readings, the one area that jumped out the most to me was chapter 11. What chapter talks a lot about the “selves”, self-regulation self efficiency, self reinforcement, self evaluation. I feel like all of these are very important for a student to grow.

 An aspect of this chapter that I really got to meet was the emotional self-regulation. It talks about self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. These are very important for a student to develop before  they become an adult. a lot of these skills they will learn at school by dealing with other students and other adults. A lot of times if a student does not have self-management as the rest of the class the student will be considered a disruption. I currently work with a student who is much younger than the rest of the class. he has an August birthday so he just made the cut for the class. he is very silly, much sillier than the rest of the students. Sometimes he can be a  bit destructive in the classroom, but luckily for him he has a teacher who understands. Instead of getting him in trouble she works with his mother to help him. Controlling your own emotions is something difficult for adults, kids it's even worse. With certain students the littlest thing can set them off from not being able to sit next to their friends, to, you ran out of their favorite colored paper.

In Chapter 11 they do proposed that idea of learning through observation. “ Through observational learning, we discovered not only how to perform a behavior but also what will happen to us in a specific situation if we perform it.” (pg. 430).  I feel like this is important because a lot of the students learn from each other more than they do from adults. At the school I work at it is a K through 8 school. It may become difficult for the older kids because they get tired of hearing “you are a role model,  what will the little ones think”. I do observe that the younger ones to look up to the older ones and try to imitate their actions, whether they are positive actions or negative actions. A lot of the time so if it isn't negative action the students will be able to observe the consequences of the student and hopefully not repeat it. 

In the front room is where most of these types of actions may be observed. It is more of a “ ripple effect”, where a student might start yelling and then all of a sudden another kid from another table was also start yelling. A lot of these actions just come out of nowhere.

 In chapter 10 we discuss technology.  just coming from a tech class I was very knowledgeable of a lot of the sites they had mentioned. For instance the jigsaw classroom is one that we did practice in the tech class. I did enjoy learning from other students in my classroom but I did get nervous having to be the one speaking.  Beneficial I saw was how and she on the material, coming from dual- language classroom this will be very beneficial considering many of the Spanish speakers would be able to receive the English vocabulary from the English speakers and vice versa. Flipped classroom was another concept that we had gone over but I do not see myself using this with younger children.  This chapter also goes over collaboration and cooperation, that is a very important skill for students to have for their later years. They are always going to be working with other people that have different personalities. They are just going to have to learn how to check their emotions and work with others.