Download CH. 8 Common Problems of Student teachers

CH. 8
Common Problems of
Student teachers
Dr. Gallegos
CD 23
Kind of problems
• Stress and Anxiety
• Stress can be too much work to do in little time, lack of recognition of efforts, noise and
activity level in classrooms, children’s challenging behaviors, tension between staff members
or other classroom adults, or other factors
• Symptoms of stress include but not limited to tense muscles, difficulty concentrating, upset
stomach, headaches, fatigue, sleep difficulty, low morale, and irritability.
• Three sequential stages in teacher training are commonplace:
• Focus on self or self-protection
• Focus on children
• Focus on outcomes of teaching
Kind of problems
• Anxiety- a general sense of uneasiness that cannot be traced to a specific
cause.
• When the student teacher can feel uncomfortable until there is a clear feeling of exactly
what is expected, and may react in a number of ways. These can include becoming
defensive, avoiding necessary guidance, missing class, becoming critical of the
placement classroom, looking for faults in others, withdrawing into busy work such as
classroom maintenance, or other behaviors.
Activity
• Write down some positive courses of actions to take in orfer to address the
anxiety that you see in yourself ?
• How would you address it to a colleague?
• Now what are some stress reduction techniques that you think are helpful?
Kind of problems
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Feelings
Time Management
Worry-have faith in your ability
Seeking Help
The half-a-teacher feeling
Guidance
Kind of problems
• Attachments
• Philosophic Differences
• Talk, talk, talk-listen carefully includes listening for intent, for children’s
thinking, giving up control of the conversation, and honoring children’s
ideas.
• Personality Conflict
• Being Held back
Kind of problems
• Site politics
• Developing supportive staff relationships
• Just as you role model behaviors for children you will consciously or unconsciously
model behaviors for colleagues
• These behaviors may include: empathy, friendliness, kindness, concern, and collaboration.
The Role of Communication and Conflict
Resolution
• Communication is a broad term that we define as giving and/or receiving
information, signals, or messages. Most interactions accounting for 60 to 80
of most human encounters.
• Conflict resolution usually refers to strategies that enable individuals to
handle conflicts cooperatively, possibly attaining win-win situations
Mediation by a neutral third party can be part of the process.
The Role of Communication and Conflict
Resolution
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Communication: Reacting to Bias
Caring and Sharing: A first step in Communicating
Authenticity
Stating Common goals and “I” Messages
Listening: The ability to receive
• Purpose to listen:
• Communication: building relationships
• Cathartic
• Informational
• Persuasive
Listening: The ability to receive
• Listening distortion
• Attitude cutoff blocks the reception of information at the spoken source because
expectations acts on selection.
• Motive attributing-is illustrated by he person who says of a speaker “He is just saying
that for public relations.” Teacher just like to talk.
• Organizational mix-up happens as one is trying to put someone else’s message together.
• Self-preoccupation causes distort because the listener is busy formulating his reply and
never hears the message.
A Problem-Solving Process
• Step 1-The recognition of facts, tenistons, emotions, or an expression of a
problem occurs
• Step 2: analysis takes place
• Step 3: “I” message or state the facts and consequences (as they relate to
joint goals) message is sent
• Step 4: Discussion takes places. (This involves probing for more data. Who
owns the problem?)
• Step 5: Both sides of the problem are clearly stated
• Step 6: Possible solutions are proposed.
• Step 7: An agreement is secured to try one of these solutions, and if the
solution does not work an agreement is made to meet again.
• Step 8: Individual respect for willingness, time, and effort to solve the
problem is expressed, in an attempt to reinforce positive behaviors.