In this post we have selected for you some tips and suggestions to solve the doubts of every newly graduated - What to do on the first day of class? (Back to Classes).
How to start the school year? How to make Group Dynamics for the First Day of Class. The 1st day of class is a day to mingle, get to know the class, promote presentation dynamics so that everyone can get to know each other and thus start the relationship between the students.
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We know that the academy trains us, but professionalization we only acquire with practice, who never asked. “What will I do with the students on the first day of class?” It is a common question and whoever enters the teaching profession will end up going through it.
Below we will give some tips for how the teacher's presentation should be for the first day of class and how students should be presented at the beginning of the school year according to their age and school level.
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These tips are very useful for elementary school, especially the first year, but it can also be adapted for kindergarten.
Considering the specifics of first-year students and their learning needs, this document contains some suggestions for activities for the first days of class. It is worth remembering that many of these activities must be carried out daily throughout the school year.
By the time the children arrive, they must be received by all 1st year teachers. The important thing is that there is an interaction between the teachers and the parents of these students, therefore, the school must be fully prepared to receive them.
Parents or guardians must be instructed to accompany their children to the classroom entrance, where the teacher will receive them. Then, the parents must be sent to the school yard, so that, together with the managers, they can participate in a presentation of the proposal for teaching, the routine of the first days, respect for the specifics of the age group, what children will learn during the year (learning expectations), on how parents can help with their children's tasks, as well as the development of activities during the school year.
In the classroom, the teacher will organize the class for a round of conversation.
This activity allows students to participate in exchanges, when they listen to their colleagues, formulate questions and issue opinions on the topic discussed. In situations like this, in which children are invited to report their experiences, their opinions about a certain theme or subject, their impressions etc., they are inserted into oral language, collectively sharing their meanings and appropriating the meanings of the other. Through language and interaction, children can access other realities. It is up to the teacher to encourage his students to this exchange, considering that the “conversation” should be seen as a content to be worked on in the classroom.
In the conversation circle, the teacher, first, must contextualize the reason for the activity, since this is the first contact that will occur as students and teacher. It is up to the teacher to introduce himself, as this will serve as a model for the children, later, to be invited to talk about their lives, for example: Who is it? What do you like to do when you're not at school? Did you attend preschool? What are your favorite dishes or foods? What games do you like? These and other related questions can be part of this conversation wheel.
It is an activity that aims to present the various environments of the school, favoring the knowledge of all spaces, their use, as well as the presentation of employees and their respective functions. This is a great time to integrate students who are attending school for the first time.
The important thing, in this activity, is that the teacher explores the spaces that students will start to attend. However, some of these spaces should be probed more closely, such as the reading space of the school, which needs to be presented as a prime place that students can use whenever need. In addition, it is important to reiterate that some classes may be held in this space.
The initial diagnostic evaluation is an essential tool for pedagogical planning, as it offers conditions for that teachers know the profile of their students and reflect on their knowledge and non-knowledge, directing their work in the classroom. class. However, for this assessment to fulfill its objectives, it is essential that it be carried out carefully. Thus, at the beginning of the school year, the different actors involved in the teaching and learning process, coordinating teachers of the School units and teachers need to include spaces for training and exchange of experiences, which are significant moments of discussion on how to assess the acquisition of the writing system and the reading and writing competence of your students, as well as their knowledge. mathematicians.
From this perspective, a diagnostic assessment of students should be made with regard to the acquisition of the writing and production system. textual, as the educator should examine what the students already know, recording their observations, in order to plan the first interventions.
Play situations favor interaction, movement and autonomy among children. When they participate in games, children express their feelings and learn to know each other, especially when they interact with adults and other children. Contact with the rules of play allows children to take ownership of attitudes typical of collective interaction.
Literacy is no longer seen as a watertight moment and started to be understood as a process, in which the first year plays a fundamental role in the acquisition of writing and reading practice in permanent activities.
From day one, the teacher can explore reading and writing activities of proper names, using the children's names as a reference. The important thing is that students have contact with the list of names of their classmates. It needs to be prepared in advance by the teacher and posted on the classroom wall, accessible to everyone.
The list must be presented in alphabetical order, in capital letters, as this type of letter is the most suitable for students in the process of acquiring the writing system. Its alphabetical order poses many questions when students are invited to participate in reading the list, favoring a cognitive conflict; mainly, with names that start with the same letter, as they will have to “fine tune” their strategies for reading such as comparing and analyzing the last letter or other letters that differentiate a name from other.
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1 – BLIND CAT AND CAT
AGE: 7 years old
Specific Objectives: Hearing, Attention
MATERIAL: Scarves
LOCATION: Room, court, patio
Formation: circles
Organization: students in circles going two to the center; one will be the dog and the other the cat. seal both eyes
Execution: every time the dog barks the cat will meow and the dog will try to catch it. If you succeed, others will go to the center.
2 – WHAT IS THE PERFUME?
AGE: 9 years onwards
SEX: Both
Specific objectives: Develop the sense of smell
MATERIAL: Fruits, perfumes, lotions, etc.
Formation: circles
Organization: students in circles, with one going to the center blindfolded
Execution: the teacher will give the students at the center something to smell the perfume and will say: – you will have to recognize this aroma among others that I will give you. Then it will give other things (fruit, bleach, etc.). This should identify when they give you to smell something that has the same smell as the first.
3 – TOUCHING THE BLIND
AGE: All
Specific objectives: Development-perspective
LOCATION: Open air, lounge
Formation: circle
Organization: students sitting in a circle. In the center, a blindfolded colleague
Execution: A fellow member of the circle will stand up, touch the little blind man and sit down again. From the movements made, the blind man will try to guess who touched him.
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To carry out this dynamic presentation for the first day of class, the teacher must bring together all students or participants in a circle, the movement of chairs and adjustment of the circle will initiate the mingling of the participants.
A sheet containing the form below:
The. What I like to do the most?
B. What do I least like to do?
ç. A quality of mine is:
d. A defect of mine is:
and. What profession do I want to exercise:
Each student or participant will receive a sheet containing the form.
Students and participants will have 15 minutes to respond.
After 15 minutes each will introduce themselves to the group, reading what they wrote.
Promote a pleasant and relaxed environment for everyone to introduce themselves.
Observe if the participant has good self-knowledge, how he/she reacts to the responses of his/her colleagues.
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