Well its nice to have finished the VELS assignment!! I’d like to revisit it in a few months once I have some experience from PD’s and rounds to add. I’ll also keep an eye on comments from other education students (might have to remind them!!) Now there’s all the other assignments to do 
I still haven’t decided what my next education assignment will focus on – there are so many of the VIT standards that I could look at, but I need to chose something that I can do without going into a classroom. More on that later. I’ve also started tutoring, so there will be lots to discuss and reflect on there!
One challenge I am facing in my teaching at the moment is in the Prep creative dance class I teach with my sister. Preps are interesting and fun to teach, and the class was getting the hang of everything nicely, but now we have a new student. As well as catching him up with all these new types of activities, he has some behavioural issues that I have never really had to deal with before, in any classroom, such as calling out random things (a lot) which unsettles the other kids. He has also shown signs of hitting other students with the props we are dancing with. I think these are enlarged by the creative setting, as I am never aiming to be too strict with them!
Next class we intend to try some strategies with him. If he isn’t behaving appropriately, we will have a place for him to sit and watch from. I’ll see if this helps with the calling out. I think he also just needs time to become comfortable with the class – its quite a different environment for any child.
We are lucky in that we are surrounded by experienced teachers who will (and are already!) helping us with this challenge. I’ll keep posting as this unfolds – it will be interesting where it goes!
But now I have assignments to write – the role of Japan and radio technology in Indonesia’s struggle for independence sound interesting to anyone?? Maybe not… 
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