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The student teacher encountered two issues during their second week of practicum: 1) pupils becoming restless and losing focus over time, especially the boys; and 2) pupils shouting and fighting to answer questions. To address these issues, the student teacher plans to incorporate more physical activities to engage the active pupils, closely monitor the misbehaving boys, and give opportunities to quieter pupils. The student teacher aims to improve classroom management within one week through rewarding good behavior, remembering pupils' names, and maintaining friendly but firm authority.

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Journal Week

The student teacher encountered two issues during their second week of practicum: 1) pupils becoming restless and losing focus over time, especially the boys; and 2) pupils shouting and fighting to answer questions. To address these issues, the student teacher plans to incorporate more physical activities to engage the active pupils, closely monitor the misbehaving boys, and give opportunities to quieter pupils. The student teacher aims to improve classroom management within one week through rewarding good behavior, remembering pupils' names, and maintaining friendly but firm authority.

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Journal

Number of journal

: 2/12

Week of practicum

: Second Week

Date

: 9th February 2015 13th February 2015

Title

: Classroom Management

Issues/situations

Pupils getting restless as time goes by


Fighting and shouting in the class to answer teachers questions

Analysis

Pupils getting restless as time goes by


One of main problems I have encountered so far has been little attention span during
my teaching and learning process in the class. As I move on to the next stage of
activity, some of the pupils became less attentive and started to do their own work
including disturbing other pupils. There are a few of the pupils having problems in
getting focused. These pupils are largely boys as they are the majority gender in the
class. Since they are active, they tend to move about and most of the times, they are
almost restless. I have to stop for several times in my lesson, call out their names just

to drag them back into the lesson which I think is quite wasting my time.
Fighting and shouting in the class to answer teachers questions
Some of the pupils fight with each other just to answer my questions. This has
caused my class to be out of control and very noisy at the same time. The pupils also
blamed me for not choosing them to answer the questions and will shout the answers
just to get my attention.
Inner voice
I find it hard for me to control a class with the majority of boys. I encountered the
same problem in my previous school as boys are always the ones making noise and
disrupting the class.
New awareness
I really hope I can handle them better in the next class. Reward system is very crucial
in improving my classroom control because younger pupils enjoy being rewarded.

Future action plan


Children are active and that is a fact that I must duly absorb. I should exploit this by
having a physical activities in the class in which they can run but in a controlled
manner. Apart from that, I also will always keep an eye on those boys who keep on
misbehaving and find some activity that might attract them to enjoy the lesson that I
teach on that day.
I will try to memorise their name so that I do not have to ask who wants to answer my
question to the pupils. I also will give opportunity to the pupils who are quite in the
class so that they realised that I noticed them in the class.
Time period for future action plans
I will try to solve these issue or at least prepare myself with any unexpected
situations or upcoming issues within one week. I need to keep my teaching and learning
skills at lower level to keep up with their progression and always monitor the pupils, and not
to mention, be friendly but firm at the same time towards the pupils so that they are open to
me and willing to discuss their problems to me. I also should give more attention to the
misbehave pupils by observing their work to make sure they still in the same pace as their
friends.

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