portant. Part of the reason I chose this assignment was to expose myself to other teacher's ways of incorporating inclusion and dealing with favoritism. Two areas that I feel I will have to work on in order for myself to feel that either I will be a good teacher or a great teacher. On page #1 of the notes you will see that I observed a class that I would very much like to teach someday, not necessarily the kids, just more of the situation. There was only twenty students which was a pleasant surprise because of the horror stories that you hear about having thirty some kids in one class. There were ten girls and ten boys; again this seems almost ideal. Now I'm not completely sure what I would do, but the first five minutes of tag I thought was a little violent, and it was the boys who prevailed in being last to stand. This I feel segregated the athletes from the others because of the nature of the game and it was not entirely useful. On the other hand I really liked what he did with the relays, the teams were very even and the different ways of incorporating fun and skills really helped with the participation. Everybody, no matter the level enjoyed this activity because even though it was competitive, the nature of the specific relays helped the kids realize it was really just for fun. I was surprised but pleased when he decided to split the class so girls were against girls and boys against boys when it came time to play the floor hockey game. This really included everyone even though it could be called discriminatory, though I wouldn't agree with that. This really worked well, I think the girls who were very competitive had even a better time than the boys, and who would have thought that with floor hockey? Now the way he disciplined I am not sure I could do that, but for some reason it seemed to work fine and the students really seemed to like and respect their teacher, which of course is vitally important. So really the o...
