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The teacher observed another teacher's interview about challenges with classroom management during virtual teaching. Both teachers felt they had lost control over their students at home and struggled with students walking away or being distracted. The interviewed teacher said incentives were less effective virtually and acknowledged the difficulties like students playing with siblings or turning on the TV instead of paying attention. She would remind students of proper classroom behavior, but this did not always work. The observing teacher felt powerless without parental support to ensure students received meaningful learning.

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Teacher Observation Summary

The teacher observed another teacher's interview about challenges with classroom management during virtual teaching. Both teachers felt they had lost control over their students at home and struggled with students walking away or being distracted. The interviewed teacher said incentives were less effective virtually and acknowledged the difficulties like students playing with siblings or turning on the TV instead of paying attention. She would remind students of proper classroom behavior, but this did not always work. The observing teacher felt powerless without parental support to ensure students received meaningful learning.

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Teacher observation summary

My interview was very interesting and very informative. I was very relieved that the teacher I
observe, and interview had the same thoughts as me with the students dealing with classroom
management. I was starting to feel that this was not my true calling in my career and need to step
back and go into something else. It really started to bother with my head on my classroom
management skills/plans. I gave so many years in this field and felt what was I doing wrong. I
always felt and believed that the classroom should not be chaotic and out of control but little
chaotic but fully controlled and learning have always been very important to me. However,
through this terrible pandemic I felt I have lost total control of my classroom management which
have always been very important to me.

When I interviewed Ms. Kubly, I asked the first questions about how do you feel about
classroom management since we been teaching virtually? She stated that since we been teaching
virtually it been very DIFFICULT because of students been in their homes and not having fully
control of what they can and can not do. For example, in the middle of a lesson did you see how
one of my student just got up and walk away and I had called to come back and he came back
eventually but not right away. A lot of the students the parents helps them get on but walks away
and the students is on their own. I said, “thank you for saying that because I thought I was a
terrible teacher because I felt I had any control over my students.” She then stated, “no this is
happening to all the teachers and everyone is experiencing this, it’s not you.” Are you using any
incentives for the students to stay in the classroom? She replied, yes and no really because when
I send the reward the student forgot all about what they get the reward for and they still have the
choice to walk away from the laptop in the middle of a lesson. She then mentioned I use them in
the classroom but how effective they are virtually because you would then have to mail it out or
take it to the students home and that would be on my personal time to do that.

Another that the students have at home that we have no control over is distractions. At school we
as teachers can control the environment. At home for students we have no control they end
playing/talking with their siblings. Fighting/wrestling with siblings or they turn on the tv when
they should be paying attention to the teacher. These are things that gets in our way of teaching
and we have no control. She also mentioned when she would deal with behavior, she would
always say would you be doing that if we were in the classroom. She would show them the
carpet area in the classroom if I were reading a book in the classroom would you be getting up
walking around in the classroom? No, you would not be you would be sitting down and paying
attention. Sometime this would work and sometimes not.

Sometimes I feel very powerless in this virtual school because you not getting the help you need
from parents. Therefore, the students only getting minimum learning.

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