Question

A fight broke out in the absence of your teacher give an account of the fight to him

Answer 1

I begin this writing with the aim of recounting and theorizing the worst experience I have ever

had in a classroom. As a teacher educator, I often use examples from my own experiences in

classrooms to help illustrate a point or clarify an example for my current pre-service and inservice teachers. I position my work here as practitioner research, particularly as a form of

teacher self-study (Dinkleman, 2003; Loughran, 2007). This particular story comes from the

semester I spent student teaching at a high school in a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. Prairie Point

High School (PPHS) (all names appearing here have been changed) had around 2,000 students in

grades 9-12. It was located in a middle- to upper-middle-class neighborhood and at that time had

a reputation for high achieving students and poor performing sports teams. The course I was

teaching was eleventh-grade American history.