Classroom Management

If I would become a new Education and Training teacher I would change some of the rules, specifically, transportation guidelines for field site travel.

Students driving to other campuses or to go off school for lunch has always been a debate. If the school board gives students the opportunity to drive to the school, why not anywhere else? I understand it gives them more opportunities to disregard the rules, but it is also giving them how to respond to this freedom and better prepare themselves for college.

Being in the morning classes, some students in my group do not have a first period and are rarely not late to the bus. In their case, I believe that it is ridiculous to live right next to their field site, but still have to drive to their high school and then ride the bus back to their field site. This effects me because it makes me continuously late to my classroom there and back. The most important thing to me is spending the most time with my students, and the bus travel and waiting time is limiting that.

My rule would be to change to change the restriction of the interns driving their cars. Personally for me, this gives me about ten extra minutes. Those ten minutes can be a student understanding something for the first time. Time is very valuable in a classroom. This would also limit the number of buses we would need to reserve and pay for.

The restrictions would be put in place if the students are taken advantage of this freedom by being late and going to get donuts. Their punishment would be provoking their freedom to drive and make them ride the bus.