Culminating Calamity

A teacher candidate, in her final practicum placement, is beginning to feel the strain of taking on full responsibility for planning and teaching her Grade 5 students. After not being able to fully plan the lesson for a culminating task activity, she felt he would be able to rely on her previous lessons to implement this art-based activity. She learns the hard way that being organized ahead of time via the lesson plan could prevent inappropriate student behaviours.

By engaging in the analysis of this Ted-Viv vignette, teacher candidates will:

• Identify general components that contribute to effective classroom management

• Distinguish elements of the instructional sequence that contributed to the inappropriate student behaviour

• Apply alternative strategies to the instructional sequence to prevent inappropriate student behaviour

• Describe appropriate strategies to respond to student inappropriate behaviour

Classroom management, Organizing physical space, Planning materials, Planning distribution of materials, Transitions, Giving instruction, engagement, communication, best-practice.

• The Ontario Curriculum

• Classroom Management and Organization

• Student Observation, Assessment and Evaluation

• Practicum

Please access the vignette transcript document here: TEd-ViV Case 12_ Culminating Calamity Transcript pdf