Reflective Analysis of Portfolio Artifact

 

INTASC # 5

 

·  Brief Description of Evidence:

 

I reflected on what I believe is a good way to discipline or guide a child.

 

·  Analysis of What I Learned:

 

Consistency is a must.

 

·  How This Artifact Demonstrates my Competence on the INTASC Principle:

 

This is a reflection on discipline in the classroom.  The behavior plan is the main component of this INTASC principle.  The principle is about how the student teacher motivates, monitors, and controls behaviors in a classroom.  This artifact is all of those factors.

 

 

April 7, 2003

 

          Children should be able to make choices or believe that they are making a choice about what they are doing themselves.  The children should not be tricked into believing that they are making a choice.  The teacher should think of two choices that the child can pick from and that is how the child believes that they are making a choice.  The children need to know what is going on in their environment as much as an adult needs or wants to know what is going on.  Children need to discuss what is going on so they understand what they are doing and what is going to happen next.  Children should have a chance to make choices but they need to know when they made a safe choice or an unsafe choice.  Safe and unsafe choices need to be explained and discussed with the children so they understand.  Children need to make choices about what they are going to play, when and how they are going to go to the bathroom, and what and how they are going to pick up the toys.

          Children should have a chance to speak up and explain how they feel about being hit, screamed at, or expressing their feelings.  Using the “I do not like when….” helps the children feel part of the decision process.  The child that hurt someone should take ownership by asking the other child or person if they are doing ok and if they can help them in anyway and not just saying sorry.