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Analysis & Reflection

I learned a great lesson today. It was the first time I had a student get sick in the middle of my lesson. The students were sitting on the carpet and we were in the middle of discussion when a boy sitting toward the back threw up on the carpet. I was lucky to have two other teachers there with me. My mentor teacher immediately walked him down to the health room and I took care of the rest of the class. Now that I think about it, I'm surprised how calm I was. I determined it was best to quickly end the discussion and get them busy with independent work. I had to settle the students down and immediately make some seating arrangements. Once they got started on their work, students talked less about what had happened and were occupied. Through this experience, I learned how important it was to be adaptive as a teacher. You just don't know what's going to happen so you need to be quick to make appropriate decisions and modifications.