TWHA REFLECTION

Last week Mr Stewart was away sick and this group was his mentor group. This class was a real challenge and I felt that it was because of matua's absence.  This should be no excuse on my behalf I should have been able to cope regardless.The behaviour was difficult to manage and I was really aware that the reliever was also struggling.  have Usually there was about 6-7 students who have behaviour management difficulties but today I would say at least 20 were off task. It would have been helpful if there was a reliever who was use to collaborative teaching and actually knew most of the students. On reflecting back I would have looked carefully at timing some of the assessment at hand and then let them maybe have free time 5 -10 minutes and then get them to refocus back into the task at hand. I may talk to Mr Stewart about how to restructure / remanage our class.  Class routines are not set in concrete and it is quite irritable.  These challenges need to be addressed as soon as possible.