Elementary School First Response

My first response of the school was why an elementary school does not have a big entrance door. After we went into the school, the president gave us a small introduction and assigned us to different classrooms. Justin and I were assigned to one class. I’m so excited when I heard that I was assigned to the kindergarten part of the school. Also, I was super nervous since I know nothing about American schools except university. Before the president brought us to our classroom, the president introduced another two students to another classroom. I saw there a girl who sited on the ground and almost cry, so I smiled to her. But she began more like to cry, which made me feel so bad. After we met our cooperate teacher, she looked very nice and patience.

It almost controlled by Ms. T. Also, Ms. T never left the classroom and she companied with kids all times. I also notice that whatever kids asked her, Ms. T answered them patiently. As Carini points out, “Yet another might be your sense of what makes the child feel safe, trusted, respected, and secure with adults (or not)”(Carini, 2000, p.59 ) A teacher who teaches in kindergarten have heavier duty than the teacher who teaches older students. It is important for kindergarten teachers to build a reliable connection with kids. There is one of the accident can supports what Kohn wrote. There was a girl called F. She broke a handmade character which was not supposed to in her hand. Ms. T expressed how upset she was and told F what she was supposed to do without any judgement. Ms. T showed F that she believed her and gave F chance to perform better. It worked very well since F finally did very good in this activity. Moreover, Ms. T allowed children to do whatever they wanted to do during class. (as long as the things they do were focus on the topic of activities). Moreover, because kids did something wrong sometimes, Ms. T would tell them the reasons of why they need to keep doing this or stop doing this. Another accident which I had deep impression was there was a boy(B) who hit a girl(G) with the book when they were doing body reading. Then, G went to Ms. T and told her what happened. I thought Ms. T

Firstly, kids in China are not allowed to go the restroom without teachers’ permits. Even some of children need adults to take care of them when they are in restrooms. Oppositely, kids in America seems more independent. Secondly, the classrooms in China are less colorful/less decorated. Some presidents think the classroom look like much more cleaner without those decoration. But there still are a lot of reward’s records on the wall to encourage kids to behave better. Thirdly, Chinese kindergartens have specific schedule of having class or break. In my opinion, the kindergarten education in America is better than in China. Chinese teachers teach too many rules and limit children’s natural behaviors a lot. Also, I think Chinese kindergarten focus more on others’ useless opinions(like whether the school looks like clean or professional) rather than focus on kids’ feeling about the