Week of January 30th

When I was doing a teaching experience at another school, I worked with a teacher that I did not like the way she was teaching the classroom. This occured last year in a third grade classroom. The teacher played favorites, yelled at students for no reason, and for some reason, was not willing to help me as a student teacher. I learned how not to be with my students by her actions and how not to behave if I ever had a student teacher in my classroom.
I felt that the way she was with some of the students was inappropriate. She would yell at the students for not completing homework or other tasks that the students should not have been doing. I realize that those students should have been punished, but she called them out in front of the other students, which is not a good practice. She also called me out in front of the students. To me, she didn't really hurt my feelings, but I felt like it took the credibility away from me and the students would not listen to me as well.
I also think that some of her students that she did not like knew she didn't and then reacted by acting out in class or not participating in class. There was one student that made me a picture because I would actually talk to her and not yell at her all the time.
In many student teaching experiences, as a student teacher, you are supposed to learn how to teach. In this woman's classroom, I learned how not to behave. Even though the experience did not go very well, I did learn how not to act as a teacher, so it was beneficial in a way.