First Day of School

As a student teach to be in the spring with hopes og graduating with my teaching certification I know that the "First day of school" is going to be here sooner than I know it. I do believe that as a teacher on the first day you need to set the floor for your rules, expectations, procedures, and consequences. I know teachers all have different ways of doing it and going about it. I do not want to be one of those teachers who every one feels like yells and is mean. I want them to respect me and what I put fourth but at the same time do not want to have to raise my voice or anything like that. Is that wrong to feel that way?

After watching my First Day of School video from lab I noticed a few things. For one I know and have known I use my hands to talk every second of the day. In this video however with the microphone I realized I like put my hands together a lot. Another thing is where do you draw the line for students like the complainer role Jenna was playing where they give their whole life story behind every question. How do you do it with out being rude but also not letting them control the classroom.

From my peer feed back I was told I teach like in an  elementary when it comes to my disciplinary. This is going to be a weakness that I need to work on for the fact that as a child yeah I got in trouble but harsh punishment was not a thing because my mom was abused as a child by a family member at the time so discipline was a casual thing in my house but trust me I knew right from wrong. Also, I know as a person that I need to be aggressive with it but need to learn to find that line because I do have very slight anger and have come along with working on that.

By giving the lesson though I realized I need to revise some of my procedures and consequences due to ease of explaining and ones that fit into the real world for instance the my time. It makes sense to me but once trying to explain it does not fit reality.