Blog Post #3

I actually read the reframing article before going into field experience, and I was so surprised at what I noticed regarding the article. I noticed that the method that my clinical teacher uses is the repositioning method. There are a few select students who are almost constantly off task, or disrupting the classroom in one way or anther. My clinical teacher obviously becomes very annoyed and frustrated with these students because she finds herself constantly having to direct their attention back to the work or to the lecture. As I was observing one day I noticed that she was becoming very frustrated with one student because he was continuously having a problem with the students sitting around him, talking, wining, arguing with others at his table. I thought that my clinical teacher was going to blow up and call out his behavior in the class. Except I was surprised to see my clinical teacher's first reaction was, the teacher "uhh!" (when all the students are being too loud) and then she realized that it was this student again having a conflict with someone else at his table. Instead of yelling at him for the hundredth time, she asked the student to come to her desk and told everyone else to sit down and continue with the work they were doing. She repositioned her initial initial position of this kid is trying to annoy the crap out of me to maybe there is an underlying issue here. She quietly spoke to the student at her desk for a while, and then she learned that a student at his table was taking his erasers and intentionally writing on them when the other student had asked him to stop, and everyone else at the table had asked this student to stop as well, but he wouldn't. She decided to move the child who was stealing the erasers to a table where there was only one other student and resolved the issue.