When reading Chapter 5 “Craig Seganti on Taking charge in the classroom”, the overall chapter was interesting when it comes to managing a classroom. As a teacher, we want to be able to control the structure of a classroom, but at times is unable to accomplish the task due to our student’s behaviors. At the beginning of the chapter it states a productive classroom may have difficulties but it is the way a teacher present themselves along with the rules of the classroom determines the outcome of the student’s actions. When presenting to the students the rules of the classroom, the teacher needs to present the rules on the first day of school and have the students sign a copy to ensure they are aware of the information. When it comes to the
My personal classroom management philosophy is to provide an equal, optimistic, learning environment. I believe the environment should be friendly, and students are all equals with the ability to actively listen to the teacher. The environment should be controlled and disciplined, but not authoritarian . Students are innately curious, disruptive and talkative. Rules will be set in place, however this is a learning environment so we will constantly work on appropriate behavior.
I agree with Fred Jones’s philosophy for Positive Classroom Management. First of all, I like his idea of Say, See, Do because students learn in different ways. Some students understand better by listening to the teacher explain what to do, while others understand better by seeing what they are supposed to do. I also like how he suggests that students go and do the lesson before too much time has passed. The only downfall for having the students do it right away is that it may go in one ear and out the other.
Therefore, my classroom management plan must be developed to set high expectations for my students as soon as they enter my classroom. This will consist of several tasks,
Every child comes to school with different skills, abilities, and experiences, which affect how they experience school and the process of learning. These skills, abilities, and experiences must all be considered when planning and the environment the teacher creates in the classroom with their management style. For my philosophy of classroom management some key ideas include making a classroom safe space, classroom rules, getting to know your students and involving parents in the classroom. Safe Classroom space; for my classroom, I want to make sure to create a safe and welcoming space for all students. I want my students to feel comfortable and safe at school.
The teacher who establishes positive expectations for all his students have high rates of academic success in the classroom. The teacher needs to offer quality instruction, provide extra help, create a positive learning environment, show respect, enforce fairness, and must give his best effort each
Over the past few years of my undergraduate classes, I have received the opportunity to expand my knowledge through different teaching experiences. I have had the opportunity to observe and implement different strategies in the classroom, giving me examples of how I would like to see my future classroom look. I have established ideas about teaching and learning that have impacted me in a great way. I have developed beliefs I would like to some day see in my classroom but, I am always willing to learn and take constructive criticism in my teaching as well. I strongly believe that classroom management is key to student and teacher success in the classroom.
There are many ways that I believe that my classroom management skills have improved, but I would like to focus on three skills: patience, communication, and documentation. Patience is so important in all facets of life, but extremely important while teaching. It is so easy to get frustrated with students who disobey, do not understand the information, or just simply not nice, but as a teacher, I must look past all of those. I believe that a major quality of a patient teacher is a teacher who used positive reinforcement as the number way he or she treats students, and that is the type of teacher I want to be. I will be a teacher who consistently motivates their students with positive reinforcement even when it would be easy to punish and get extremely angry at the student.
Definition of Classroom Management Classroom management is a broad category that encompasses the type of environment in which students will be learning in, as well as the rules and procedures put in place for said students. It is important to note that classroom management does not equate to discipline, as that is considered to be behavior management. Effective classroom management will create an organized and structured environment that maximizes the amount of instructional time along with learning done by students. Through effective classroom management students will learn to be responsible, engaged, and productive within their classroom.
My philosophy regarding classroom management has been shaped by my current work in a Life Skills classroom. In class, both my colleagues and myself are guilty of not always utilizing the A-B-C (antecedent, behavior, consequence) approach readily or consistently. I hope that by constructing my own philosophy of classroom management, I can reference it in the future to make sure I create a productive classroom environment which acknowledges and analyses antecedents and provides an unambiguous system of consequences. One of the six principles of Applied Behavioral Analysis acknowledges that “the failure to praise desired student behavior when it occurs both reduces the likelihood of its future occurrences and increases the chances that students will engage in undesired behavior if it more predictably results in teacher attention” (Kerr & Nelson 2010).
In this world today, many people are constantly trying to invent new ideas and structures about how to make everything better in some way or another, which is amazing. I decided to not try to reinvent the wheel and just take ideas from teachers that I adored as a student. This made this assignment a lot of fun because I was able to relive each and every teacher that I had in high school and take ideas that I loved, and ignore ideas that I hated. After many, many drafts, I was finally able to bring many ideas to my philosophy statement that resembled who I want to be as a teacher and how I want my classroom to look
c) There are four main classroom management theorists that I find align most with my philosophies and values for teaching, they are: Lee and Marlene Canter; Harry and Rosemary Wong; William Glasser; and C.M. Charles’s work on “gentle discipline”. The Canter’s developed “assertive discipline” which is based on “the conceptualization of the teacher as the final authority in the classroom” (Fennimore, 1995, p. 180). The Wong’s are famous for stressing the importance of routines and the need for high expectations starting on the first day.
Effective ways to encourage and teach appropriate student behaviors are highly valued by educators. Thus, the theorists of classroom management mentioned above continue to provide direction of contemporary
Classroom management plays a big role in a student 's classroom achievement because it is an essential part of the teaching and learning process. It refers to the methods, strategies that the teachers use to maintain a classroom environment that results in student learning success. Classroom management is also a process of organizing a conducive environment for the students, student’s engagement, and involvement and classroom
Teaching is not controlling, but rather working with the students to learn, grow, and succeed together. By having strong student-teacher relationships with students, the classroom will be a place for each member to express their feelings and work together. Academic success depends on these close relationships and guidance that teachers and students have with one another. Classroom management aims at establishing student self-control through a process of promoting positive student achievement and behavior. Thus, academic achievement, teacher efficacy, and teacher and student behavior are directly linked with the concept of classroom management.
