CM 5 Case Study 5

In this study Ms. Grant should have taken some steps to have mad the class run smoother. She should have had the desk arranged before class so that time was not taken away from instruction and the noise that comes with students moving desk would have been eliminated. She could have passed out the papers and given instructions before the students moved into their groups, this would cut down the number of times Ms. Grant had to interrupt and quite the students. She also should have walked around the room monitoring students and posing to them questions to spur other ideas in their heads. By doing this she would have given the student more direction and kept them quieter and on task. She could have told the students that they had a specific amount of time to work on the project so they would have started faster and she should have informed them when to be rapping things up. This would give students a since of urgency to complete the task, and would help cut down on the time spent waiting for all groups to finish. She could have had extra activities for those who finished early so that they did not start to gossip and chat, which would cut down on the noise level. Or she could have looked over their work before they presented the information to the class. She should have made students accountable for the information given by the other groups so that they had a reason to listen to their classmates. And lastly she should have had more of a discussion about the purpose of the activity while conducting this she could have had the books passed out. This would not leave an opening for the students to start chatting because they did not have to wait for the books. Over all preventing the behavior before it started.