Finally

VI Management of Classroom
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B. Elaboration of significant episode:
Today right before our movie break my 4th graders finished their ISTEP testing. I could hear each of them sigh, "finally we're done!". That seemed to be the common consensus around the classroom. I collected the tests and stood up to survey the room. What a mess. Since we had all of our students, of which some are usually mainstreamed, had been in our classroom each table and chair was being used. Everyone's 'stuff' was out of place due to seating by grade level. Not everyone was even used to classroom procedure so pencils and crayons (etc.) seemed to be everywhere I turned. As the students watched their movie I started to clean up the room and reorganize it to get ready for a 'regular' routined week..

C. Analysis of Episode:
This week has been hard on many of my students in a couple of different ways. First, it is hard (especially for my class) for my students to get out of the regular routine of the day: word work, reading, centers, writing, math, and lunch. ISTEP is pushing the frustration level for many of my students. Though this LD class is one of the highest funcioning classes I have ever been in. It is still difficult many time for these students to succeed at hard comprehension and vocabluary in reading. Also the writing portion of the test way very difficult for many. It will be nice for next week to get back to a normal schedule.