• Forum: week 1 discussion question

The principal asks you to supervise the children in the cafeteria during lunch. You have to make sure that the children eat as quietly as possible and that they do not throw their food. You also have to ensure that they all clean up after they have finished. You will leave the cafeteria only when it is clean. Do you think that it is the job of the classroom teacher to do this? Explain your answer. What would you do in this situation?

In my opinion, this is not my job to do this, I shouldn't be alone with the student, but I can help the teacher to do this job.  Children will learn from her to clean their hands before eat, sit quietly when they eat, clean up their place when they finish. Also, she will observe them and see the different between their behavior, personality in the classroom and outside.  Every day I suited with the children during lunchtime.  First, l let them wash their hands.  So children learned that our hands are not clean all the time, and we have to wash them.  Then the children went outside and suited nicely in the food table. I walked around them because sometimes they need my help to open their juice or sandwich, but, I teach them how to open it, so they will learn and depend on themselves.  Moreover when they clean up, there is two garbage; one for the food and the other for the tailings. From this, they learn that we shouldn't throw the food in the trash. I knew the children more, and they knew me when I suited with them at lunchtime.