Westwood School Observation

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I really enjoyed those 2 weeks in Westwood school, everyone was so nice and attentive to us, even the principal on the first day told us to call her by her first name. The staff helped us througout the journey, and the experience was amazing. I really loved the organization they all have in that school, and the classroom management as well, I learned a lot from my teacher and most of her classes were based in student centered lesson, and The ELD clases they had helped me to realize how it is possible to successfully teach our kids that study English as a second language.
I also learned how to discipline kids in a loving way and always calm as a person, there is no need to yell at them, us adults dont like to be yelled at, so why would we do it with a little kid.

Kids are very smart and it is easy to reason with them, so instead of using a higher tone of voice when dealing with them, we must use a kind, nice voice to make the kid comfortable when talking with us.

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