HCSD Preschool
This week while mentoring at the preschool, there was a day when I was helping the preschoolers get their stuff ready to go home, but one student did not want to cooperate. He did not want to put his coat on or zip his backpack, and instead he took another student’s hat and tried to put it on me. In doing so, he basically just held the hat against my face, so that I could not see anything. He would not listen when I told him to stop or give the hat back. At the preschool, they talk a lot about the different "zones" you could be in, and at that point this child was definitely in the red zone. In that moment I was unsure of how to handle the situation. I decided to sit him in my lap and give him a big bear hug, holding his arms down, until the classroom teacher came to help calm him down. I am not sure how she got him to cooperate and get ready to leave, as after that happened I went to help other students that needed their coats zipped or gloves put on. If this or something similar were to happen again, I would probably handle it the same way, and allow a teacher who is better equipped to deal with the situation take care of that student, until I learn how to do so myself. Calming down a student who is uncooperative or misbehaving is one of the things I want to learn how to do before my mentoring for this semester is over. Since there are only a few weeks left, I need to start asking more questions when a situation like this occurs. So far, I have mostly been going with the flow of whatever happens in the classroom, but I need to be more purposeful when mentoring in order to learn what I want to learn and gain from this experience. At this point, I have learned that there is a lot of cutting, gluing, and other forms of crafting on the teacher’s end that goes on in preparation for the activities each day. Before this, I thought that it would mostly be the students doing the arts and crafts, but there is just as much designing and creating for the teachers to do as there is for the students. I would not mind that if I were to follow this path, but it is just something new I have learned while mentoring that I did not know before.
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