Scan and Rotate

My intervention strategy for the student teacher was to ask her to focus only on increasing her scan and table rotation time. I mapped her rotations with a different color pencil for each rotation, wrote the number of seconds for each scan, and documented when she stopped at a student if it was for instruction or feedback.

Where she scanned within a range of 10 to 20 seconds, she managed to catch just about every kind of behavior and intercept, redirect, or answer a need. Her worst scan was 56 seconds, where it was tunnel vision, missing a raised tiring hand held for 28 seconds during which time she serviced two other turn jumping students. The student became off task and pulled other students off task during the latter part of the 28 seconds.

Mapping her rotations evidenced a pattern where two tables were continuously visited, one only twice and the others three times. The two tables have students with high learning and attention needs. This was 5th period. I briefly went over the results and asked her to share the impact of her new exercise.

She improved her scan and rotation rate in 6th period with terrific results where off task behavior was non-existent. The student teacher was far more proficient at addressing student needs. This class is her most difficult class and it was evidently far more enjoyable, her energy level was up, she had more smiles as she walked around the classroom speaking to student needs during their multi-level transition into 3 different ongoing activities.