September 10, 2012

         Today, being Monday, I anticipated it to be a slow moving day. But the chocolate mini snickers that I bought at 7am before school really helped get me through the day. We had two behavioral specialists come into our room today to monitor a few of our student’s behavior. I spent a small amount of time talking with them and discussing the behaviors that I have seen from one of the students in our classroom. In the next few weeks I believe we are going to have a behavioral plan ready and set into action for our student. Hopefully this will help him get on track and stay focused during the school day. I am looking forward to seeing how behavioral specialist work in the classroom and learning from them through this teaching experience.

         My highlight of the day today was when I pulled my “buddy” aside to talk to him about a specific behavior. 
 After listening to what I had to say to him and with out being asked he walked himself out into the hallway. I thought for sure he was going to make a run for it, but I ran out to find him sitting at my designated time out (talk it out) spot. He had put himself in “time out”.