Since I have been able to complete my field experience I figured I could write my blogs as soon as possible while my experience is still fresh. To follow up on my last post about reframing, I am going to continue with that idea. A different viewpoint I am able to look at is how Ms. Jay feels towards these students. I am going to continue to say that I think she is an excellent person, but is burnt out herself. I think she has started to teach as if she was a child's mother and takes on the motherly role.
She deeply cares about the students. I have observed numerous things that supports this. One of those things being when a child is crying (which happens frequently in a kindergarten classroom) she rushes over to find out what's wrong. She listens to the child and what they have to say about why they are crying. She never ignores how they are feeling and validates their feelings.
Today while I was there, a student was uncontrollably crying. I would have handled the situation by telling the student to calm down and when he was ready to come talk to me. It's hard to be able to understand a student when they can't stop crying. Ms. Jay and him were only conversing in Spanish, which I unfortunately do not understand. I asked Ms. Jay what was wrong since it was clear that the student was becoming a distraction to the other students who kept begging him to stop crying because it was so loud and intense. Ms. Jay told me she had never seen him like this before. She said earlier in the morning she saw the student with her partner teacher, who I will refer to ask Ms. Trunchbull. Ms. Jay asked Ms. Trunchbull if anything had happened and she replied with, "I made him do work." Ms. Jay doesn't feel like you can push your students that hard where they're at the point of breaking. Ms. Jay had concluded that Ms. Trunchball said or did something to make the student feel this way. I think that's why she is so easy-going on this class.
Ms. Trunchbull and Ms. Jay's room share a wall. You can hear the second Ms. Trunchball isn't happy with the children. She screams and yells so loud that even I wouldn't want to be in that classroom, not to mention how 5 year olds feel. Before Jay's class switches to go into Ms. Trunchball's room, 4 girls got mysterious stomachs all of a sudden, one was even crying. Ms. Jay told me that it happens pretty frequently and she knows it's because they don't want to go next door. Ms. Jay allows the students who are supposed to be in Ms. Trunchball's room into hers all the time. She doesn't think Ms. Trunchball should be an educator. Ms. Trunchball takes things to the extreme, not only with her voice but with her discipline. I've seen her dragging kids to the office for not doing their homework. Unfortunately at 5 years old it is hard to be that upset with the student, when it's really their parents who need to be talked with.
Ms. Jay feels for these students because she envisions her own 4 year old daughter in their place and knows that she wouldn't want a teacher to treat her daughter like that. Based on that, I feel that is why she lets a lot of things go with them. The students definitely run her classroom and I think it is because she doesn't want to add more stress to their lives, because like she said, "many of them come from broken homes."
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