Day Seven – Wednesday 29th November 2017

I was positioned in a year one classroom today as my current class was away on a trip. In the classroom, I had seen many similarities in discipline, rewards and getting attention as I did in year one. The rhymic beat that the children copied to listen to the teacher was once again a fascination I had as it was interesting to see that all the children responded. The teacher I was working beside was a teaching in training and was new to the class. This was interesting as it had shown me how the children respond to teachers who they do not know. I had found that they give more attention to the teacher which had me thinking of Mary Ainsworth’s study of when babies see strangers for the first time they are much more aware give attention to the stranger, some in the study avoid the stranger completely; in this case I had seen that more children had become reserved and shy towards the teacher whilst others were more welcoming.

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