Organizes, allocates, and manages the resources of time, space, and attention
1. In an attempt to best understand the classroom as it was when I entered (since, technically, at that time is was 100% my CT’s room who set up before I arrived and had a vision in mind) I created a classroom seating chart. I did this once for the course as an assignment, but I also made another for my CT for an observation so she could take notes of them for a formative assessment. Throughout the semester, I watched her make subtle changes to seating arrangements in order to best suit the needs of our learners, but she would ask me, “What do you think?” I was able to say, “Yes, I agree so-and-so should really be next to so-and-so because they work well together and stay on task.” I got to know my students as people and could make predictions based on learning preferences, needs, and personalities just what seating arrangements would work and which simply would not.
2. Time management has been something that I learned early-on in my first year of internship because I had a CT who was very good about watching the clock. It became a positive habit for me to ask the students, “Show me on your hand how many more minutes you need?” Then setting a timer and placing it under the ELMO projector so they could also practice time management for themselves and have an understanding of deadlines early on. While I personally used my phone a lot this semester as a timer and I cannot show that as an artifact, there are many great websites for teachers, including this one, which is just a simple timer to display for the students: http://www.online-stopwatch.com/classroom-timers/
3. The following blog posts come from readings about classroom space and materials, including an overview of the reading as well as my reflection where I discuss how it relates to my classroom: http://cedumas.weebly.com/ede-4504-blog/category/feaps-2a