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1. Best Practices (What are some examples of best practices that you had witnessed in terms of teacher-children interactions?)

2. What are some of the difficulties you face at the centres?

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1) Best practices

Witnessing SMILING teachers give positive words of encouragement to kids who are struggling with activities as well as seeing teachers put in effort to customise crafts & notes for each of her students. Such personal touches warm my heart.

2) Difficulties

Caring for special needs children who are on borderline assessment make me feel helpless in hope of helping them better.

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1. Teacher uses positive phrases eg: well done, awesome, excellent each time the child did something well.
2. Managing parent's expectation eg: academic teaching and personal preference.

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1a. The teachers have engaging transition periods. This is an effective way of good classroom management.
1b. During the teacher-children interactions, the teacher is always full of energy and maintaining eye contact with all children.
1c. Teacher always makes an effort to ensure each child partipates in each activity. She is able to draw out children who are either introverts or not confident of answering the questions and/or activity. She is able to provide a safe & encouraging environment
for them to learn and play.
2a. Being new to the environment, I need to have a deeper
insight of each child’s behavior and profile, to understand them better.

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Good Practices
1a. Having mall chats and talks can help the ommunication with the child knowing their likings, interest and what they did at home the day before or during the weekends.

2a. The teacher is able to provide the child's needs even though the child was being cranky, couldn't bring the message over to the teacher.

3a. Instead of repriming the child, the teacher uses some hand signs as a reminder to the child instead of saying out in front of the child's peers.

DIFFICULTIES
1b. Not able to delicate them such one to one attention as what the child expects.

2b. Trying to let the child understands and proceed to what you need them to do within your specific timing of he routine is difficult, instead thw child are doing it in their own timing and pace .

3c. Letting them know how their peers feels and sees is really a difficult task.

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1a) Teachers give firm instructions through gentle tone to students and practise counting-down time to prepare students for next activity.
1b) Teachers are attentive to students' needs e.g. permitting snacks for students who missed their breakfast, give buffer time to enable students to complete their tasks
1c) Teachers are quick to create learning opportunity to the whole class when managing mis-conducts or conflicts
2) The K1 & K2 classes that I am attached to are of a small class size of 8 students per class. Hence, the support rendered is limited

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1) Engagement with the children. Great teachers can get the children to sit for a longer period of time because the children are engaged in the activities that they are doing.

Good classroom management with short & simple class rules. There should be activities/materials ready for the children to self play while the teacher can engage with the other students.

When teachers uses positive phrases & positive reinforcements.
For example, while getting the children to sit down, she will start singing "Everybody cross your legs, cross your legs, cross your legs.... just like.... April" She will then get everyone to say "Good Job, April!"

Good story telling & singing sessions.

Teachers should have a sweet and pleasant look while talking to the students. The way they speak plays a big part as well. Talking slowly and calmly would make the children understand better rather than scolding and shouting at the children when they do not understand.

2) Teacher child ratio (especially when it is a new class or a younger age group) Sometimes there are too many students for a teacher to handle.

When there is a new student who has just joined the class. He/she needs to adapt to the new environment. Thus he/she tends to be more clingy and emotional. As a teacher, we will have a hard time to handle the class as well as the new child.

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Cass                                                           (1)	Talking to children using pleasant calm voices and simple languages                          (2)	Greet them warmly when they arrive in class room                                 (3)	Wait for the children to finish asking question before answering them                                   (4)	Use positive guidance techniques such as modelling and encouraging appropriate behavior           (5)	Set clear limit            (6)	Get on child level for face to face interaction                                         (1)Students - Dealing with challenging behavior such as crying or cranky children(2)	Parents - parent requests, questions and complaints as they drop off or pick up their child

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Cass                                                           (1)	Talking to children using pleasant calm voices and simple languages                          (2)	Greet them warmly when they arrive in class room                                 (3)	Wait for the children to finish asking question before answering them                                   (4)	Use positive guidance techniques such as modelling and encouraging appropriate behavior           (5)	Set clear limit            (6)	Get on child level for face to face interaction                                         (1)Students - Dealing with challenging behavior such as crying or cranky children(2)	Parents - parent requests, questions and complaints as they drop off or pick up their child

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(3) Teacher- maintaining high energy level at all time

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1. Best Practices

A teacher who attended to the child’s need in doing tasks such as sewing button for student. The maternal act helps make the child feel secure and happy in the centre. During spelling practice, the teacher was very patient in guiding the child.

2. Difficulty

Managing difficult parents who are not understanding towards children’s natural growth and development which may sometimes involve children injuring themselves accidentally.

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1. Best practices

Every assembly, the teachers will join to sing or dance along with the children. They show a great participation in every activities that they do with them.

Always keep a look out on the children. Making sure of their safetyness, no hazardous materials surrounding them.

The teachers give praises to students who are well-behaved of listen to instructions. Praises like "good job", "well done".

The teachers give verbal cues to the children, this is a great practice because it constantly reminds them what to do. Eventually, they will automatically know without giving instructions repeatedly.

Occupy them with sing along or story telling session during transition. Example: going for a shower and wait for their turn.

1. Difficulties

Although it is a small group of children, it is difficult to handle as they will keep coming to the teacher for attention almost every time.

Getting all of their attention when conducting a short lesson. Some children were not paying attention or easily distracted with other things and need to constantly tell them to listen to the teacher.

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E1a) The teacher provides simple and clear instructions to students all the time and maintain interest in the learning activity.
1b) The classroom runs with respect to routines and the teacher engages students in activities and facilitate activities so that learning opportunities are maximised.
1c) The teacher also conducts proper instructional discussions and activities to promote students' higher order thinking skills and cognition in contrast to a focus on rote instructions (eg. An activity after story telling).
1d) The teacher helps children develop warm supportive relationship, enjoyment and excitement about learning.

2.) During circle time some students were not listening and didn't stay their place (kept moving around) so it disturbs other students.

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1. Best Practices

Some of the best practices are the usage of positive teaching towards the children and also always coming up with new innovative ways to engage the children.

2. Difficulties

Some of the difficulties are to manage the children in the best possible way even when the going gets tough and also to face difficult parents when they are unhappy.

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- The teacher engage in one to one interactions and get to child’s level face to face when communicating with them.

- The teacher use a pleasant, calm voice and very simple language. They also provide warm & physical contact towards the students.

- The Teacher acknowledge the children for their accomplishments and effort during activity time and especially if children portray good listening skills among peers.

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- Children become overly dependent on the teacher. The teacher will oblige them with correct answers.

- Children are persistent to speak in English during Mother Tongue Language class. As this is common problem, the teacher will redirect student to repeat the word/question in the Mother Tongue Language to encourage them.

- There is a strong dominance in a particular child, which constantly ‘steal the show’ during questions and answer. This will demotivate other children with different capabilities. The teacher will gently deflect some answers from the strong children and give production time to weaker ones to answer them.

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1a) child was given a warm and friendly welcome upon arrival.

1b) during lesson, teacher always maintained eye contact with students and replied to every question ask without hesitation. lesson was fun and interesting for everyone.

1c) sat and chat with the students during lunch  trying to know more about them. this can help to build a good relationship in the future.

2a) due to time constraint, it was difficult to understand each child physical and emotional behaviour.

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1. Best Practices

One of the best practice that I've witnessed was the positive relationship that a teacher built with her class through various ways such as affectionate behaviours, calm voice with a always ready to listen attitude towards her students.

Another practice that I came across was a teacher who express respect for and affection towards children through attentive listening, smiling, touching, holding and speaking to children at eye level. Besides building up respect between the teacher and the child, it also creates a positive impact on the trust between them.

2) Difficulties

The responsibility of a child's development is not only on the teacher but the parent as well. Challenges arise when parents are too busy at work and does not make the effort to cooperate with the teachers.

Another difficulty arises when parents take sides when an incident occur and makes assumptions.

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1) During teacher-children interactions;

(a) Teacher have a good class management in terms of getting all children to engage in the activity

(b) Teacher talks to children with full of sincerity and praises the attentive ones

(c) During music lesson, Teacher introduced a new song for the children and gave all children a chance to create their own dance moves for every sentence of the song. Each child sang and danced with full of confidence!

2) Some children are too active in answering questions that the teacher asked and does not let others try.

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1. Best Practices

a) Warm and friendly welcome
The children will feel safe, comfortable and welcome.

b) Positive Language
When a teacher uses positive language/reinforcements, the children gets influenced and will start using positive language.

c) Engaging with the children
When teacher engages with the student, he/she will have a positive relationship and the whole environment will be fun for the children.

2. Difficulties

a) Competitive Mindsets
With children having competitive mindsets, it creates a hard time managing the class.

b) Short Attention Span Students
When a child have short attention compared to the other students, he/she will distract himself/herself and would distract other children as well. This would be a challenge for the teacher and his/hers classmates as well.

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