Behavior Management on Prac…

I was extremely apprehensive starting this Professional Experience.  Meetings with my Mentor highlighted some of the challenges faced by the students in the class and therefore the Behavior Management issues that occur in direct correlation to this.  Many other EDC3100 students have blogged about some of the challenges that they faced on their own Professional Experience, and I was lucky enough not to come across attitude problems such as Emileigh.  For more information you can read her blog post here… I had investigated a number of behavior support classroom programs and reward systems before beginning my Professional Experience as the first lesson on the first day my Mentor asked me to teach a lesson on what my behavior expectations were and a system I was going to implement.  A number of students had highlighted Class Dojo and from other posts this seems to be a fantastic system.  I had initially asked my mentor about using Class Dojo but she was not responsive to the suggestion and advised that a more visual and tactile system would work better with her class.  After some modifications and many, many google searches, I was really impressed how this lesson was received and they system worked extremely well.  Students are still asking my Mentor for ‘Monster Dots!”