If I had been in the instructor's position, I fear that I would not have handled the disciplinary issues quite as well, as I had not thought of all of the considerations mentioned by the instructor during the interview, especially the issue of the disruptive students' right and need to be educated and grow. An aide would have been of assistance in these scenarios, as they could remove the student from the public setting while going over rules and restoring discipline, but this is secondary to a proper consideration of the issues. I might have dropped different items from the week's curriculum, as well, but these changes would have been minor and largely unimportant. As far as moving ahead with tasks, I would have done just what the instructor did.
The rationales along which the above decision would have been-based is simply that these approaches appear to be the best choices and decisions that can be made in terms of keeping the classroom as a whole unified and on-track. The extra resource of an aide allows for disciplinary issues to be both less disruptive and less public, both of which assist the classroom as a whole and the disruptive students in their ability to remain on task, and to...
The time constraints that must be dealt with are, quite obviously, an issue of practicality that cannot be altered, and the only alternative to cutting certain activities at times is decreasing the amount of time spent on every activity (to allow for more time for including more activities), which would greatly diminish the quality of education and the usefulness of the learning activities altogether. The same logic applies to the need to move ahead with tasks even when a few individuals are still struggling to complete it -- the needs of the classroom, and even of these individual learners, include other tasks that are also essential to education, and limiting exposure to these activities provides a detriment rather than a benefit to the educational and developmental process.
Due to the public nature of the classroom, I had worried that parent micromanagement might be an issue, but when asked about this the instructor actually stressed that more parental involvement would be ideal. Difficulties balancing the immediate and the multidimensional needs of the classroom were acknowledged as a major complicating factor in the instructor's position, however.
