Class has been going extremely well. I am in the middle of my 2nd week of 1st grade. The days go by pretty quickly. We manage to fit in a lot in one day.
Just moments ago at recess, I was confronted with my first kid argument. "L" was supposedly excluding people from jump rope. "S" was unhappy about that but apparently said some threatening things in response.
And then there's me. What do I do? I tried to calm them down and maybe give each other space (a clever tactic to buy myself more time to figure out what could come next!). R (head teacher) said the Responsive Classroom thing to do is to let them work it out. So once they've cooled off a bit I'll have them talk it out. But wow! I can handle "He pushed me and it hurt." But "I've decided to be your friend NEVER because you threatened me" is another.
We don't set the expectation that everyone in the class is going to be friends. But we do expect everyone to be friendly.
I'll have to do some hocus pocus on this one.
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wow. I'm starting to prepare for interviews, and I hate trying to think of answers for "tell me about a time when..." but this would be perfect! oh, and I also carry around a little black notebook that I write random things in - brits say the damnedest things (too!)
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