Goal 1: Managing behavior in circle time

In my 7 th semester teaching practice I used three different techniques to manage the children behavior in class during circle time,
which are sad and happy face, praising the well behaved children and punishing. Punishing is not used that much in kindergart en,
but it really works sometimes. And I figure that praising the well behaved children is the strategy that worked well in managing
their behavior. First two days I used the sad and happy face technique, not all of the children respond to this technique, th ey
didn’t even care that much and I was upset about it. Then I notice that the teacher technique which is praising the well behaved
children works, because the children are used to this technique. I also tried one more technique in KG2 -6 since they are noisy
more than the other section, and it really works, when the start becoming noisy and misbehaving while I was reading the story
for them, I stopped the story, I close the book and ask them all to stand up, they notice that I become very disappointed, sa d,
and upset, because I planned well and they were misbehaving a lot. When they stood up they were quit and they felt regret and
stayed quit, then I ask the well behaved children to go to the activities table to do the activity, and the rest of them they were
sitting quit and behaving well until the end of the lesson. When the first group of children finish the activity, they go back to
circle and one of them come to me and tell me that her friends (who were misbehaving) wants to do the activity. I notice that
they are somehow scared from me but that’s fine because sometimes you are supposed to show them that you are serious. My
MST asked me to teach one more time in KG2-6 section, and they respect me, listen to my instructions and follow my directions.
(NOTE: I teach in two sections section KG2-5 & KG2-6)

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