Essay on Designing an Engaging Classroom Enviornment

For my classroom to be successful, I need to establish classroom expectations that foster a productive learning environment, roles in the classroom, and boundaries for all my students. I want to have my expectations established before the students begin school so they will have procedures to learn on the first day. I want the students; days to be consistent not only in with their schedule and daily routines but the classroom expectations need to be met daily.

As an early educators,we work very hard to ensure the safety and well being of our childeren in our care.We ensure safey and health by modeling the rules that we apply in our class room safey begins when the childeren arrive for the day. name tags are placed on the door when the childern arrive so we know who is with us.We begin by washing our hands and being seated for breakfast.One teacher will serve breakfast while the other teacher supervisors and sits with the childeren at the breakfast table. this is to prevent chocking and to see that the childeren set in the chairs the proper way.One opening teacher is to server while the other teacher in the class room takes care of changing this to prevent crossing

During the 2015-2016 school year, I had the opportunity to be a Resident Advisor in Dunlap-King Hall. My job included safety and security of the building and the residents, conflict management between roommates and residents, planning and implementing hall wide programing events, and community building. While on the job, you must to be the positive example for the residents and be the leader of your hall. If there is a problem in the hall, it is the Resident Advisor's job to help find a solution towards the problem. Solutions can be something from being the mediator between roommates or simply putting in a service request or teach a resident how to put in a service request.

For me, the teaching process in constantly changing depending on the students in my class and the development each of them demonstrates. Each year will bring a new class full of students with diverse backgrounds and abilities which creates academic diversity in the classroom (Krause, Bochner, Duchesne & McMaugh, 2010). This allows students to learn from one another using a more knowledgeable other being either me as a teacher or a fellow classmate (McInerney, 2014). Engagement within the classroom is important as it will enable me to provide individual feedback and to ensure the students that learning is possible (O’Donnell et al., 2016). Through the use of real world activities children are provided with very stimulating and thought-provoking

I recently stumbled upon my year eight high school report. After reading though teacher comments from 23 years ago, I was shocked to discover that many teachers had made comments such as, “Has the ability to excel but lacks motivation in class” or “Could do better in mathematics if more than the bare minimum was studied”. However, one music teacher’s comments really stood out. She wrote, “Has excelled in music this semester, puts in her best effort in every class and has persisted to master some difficult songs to sing. I am also impressed with her commitment to the school choir during lunch breaks each week”. Why was there such a contrast between my study of music and my other subjects? I have come to realise it is because I was engaged in

Essential instructional practices that best support an effective learning environment for all students are well establish classroom routines and procedures. Classroom routines allow the teacher to utilize their time efficiently, which in turn makes cooperative learning groups possible. When I taught kindergarten, during the first week of school I had several discussions with my students about our classroom routines and procedures, and how important they are, and why they are necessary. As a result, students knew what was expected from them, and we were able to have smooth transitions throughout our day.

I believe that by giving children opportunities to explore and learn hands on they will learn faster as well as retain the information. Creativity is so important and I feel that it is slowly dying out because of things like computers and televisions, so I would do my best to incorporate and promote hands on creativity and imagination. My classroom will be set up in a way that in everything they do there will be some aspect in which they use their imaginations and creativity to learn. For example, having furniture that is easy to move and having open ended materials. The sorts of activities/tools I would have in my infant/toddler classroom to promote development would be creative art, letter recognition for the toddlers, colors, shapes, sensory objects. I would have lots of centers with blocks, toys, books, and so on. Also, I feel that by exposing infant/toddlers to all different cultures rather it be in photos, creative art, or even in snacks it is a great way to promote equality because these children are the people of tomorrow because by teaching these things to children early on they might have a better chance of being accepting in later years. Over all I want my classroom to be a place for children to thrive and be the best they can possibly be while learning diversity and

Creating a positive, productive classroom environment can be really hard, especially for new teachers. Without good behavior management, students cannot learn to their full potential. When I have a classroom of my own, I will have several behavior goals for my students. I want to set up a classroom contract that lists all of the classroom expectations and one of my main goals is to have students follow this contract. I also want my students to respect one another and me and take ownership of their behaviors. Another behavior goal is to have my students focus on their own work and to not disturb the other students who are learning. No matter what grade I teach, another goal of mine is to have my students behave, even when I

I am a believer that the environment in a classroom will not only be a place of academics, but an environment that is inclusive to fostering personal growths as well as relationships. A classroom should embrace diversity in a cultural and cognitive nature as well. I have envisioned my own classroom with 20 first grade children. The layout of the classroom I have provided is what I feel would be the way I would have the class set up for the beginning of a fall semester. As the school year progresses I will have changes and additions to the classroom as needs to be accommodated. I am also a believer to keeps students busy and engaged. This includes changing the seating arrangements every two or three weeks, this keeps the students engaged in new relationships and the dynamics of their cognitive learning with activities at a different challenge. Different students have different things to bring to a group.

In my kindergarten classroom, I will establish a safe learning environment. The students will be encouraged to participate and give their opinion. The students will be selected at random to answer questions or to model. That gets the feeling of getting picked on out the window. The students will be allowed to ask their classmates. This encourages the students to work together and offer other perspectives. The students will learn from each other without the feeling that one is smarter than the other. Their self-esteem will be lifted with encouraging words from the teacher.

In our guidance and management course this semester I have gained great knowledge as to how to manage a classroom and guide my children on the right path toward success. Throughout the semester I have gained feedback from the instructor on how to manage, discipline and guide. Also, I have developed my own set of consequences and rules for my classroom that will help my future students to develop in an appropriate way. My classroom will be set up in a specific way to make sure that it is a stress-free environment that is accommodated in a specific way for all learners and it keeps the children calm and ready to learn. For these things to work I need to make sure that communication is key between me, my students, the families, and my future colleagues. Children are going to be the future and for them to be successful problem solvers and to provide for their future lives they will need the right guidance from a great teacher.

When I have my teaching degree and license and I have a classroom of my own it will be a fun and inviting environment. My class room will have a theme each year to make learning a little more fun. All of the learning materials will look inviting, colorful and something a child will want to look at. I hope to teach a second grade class but I would be ok with anything from kindergarten to third grade. To help a child learn words especially younger children just learning words I would have everything labeled to help them know the words for everything in a classroom. For older kids there will be reading tools and areas to help them become more efficient readers.

I believe that one of the most important aspect of a well defining classroom has much to do with how the classroom environment is managed. To keep a good learning environment, it is imperative to first set a plan on how the organization will take place and what measures will be taken to preserve a peaceful union within the class. These measurements should be based on respect, obedience, love, caring, prevention and consistency for meaningful learning, as this will produce a structured environment.

As I said earlier I went to Mountain Top Elementary school where there is a preschool classroom. In that classroom I saw that there were a lot of colors and stations, as well as learning tools like posters, books, computer, and even a small library. The classroom was organized and had lots of toys for the kids to play with. There was a sink that was put to good use throughout the day for hand hygiene. Although there was a lot of stations for specific things it was very small classroom which made things tight for adults but big for the kids. The desks were small and the chairs were as well. The seats had each kid’s name printed on the back so when they came in and washed their hands they would know just where to sit. As I looked around I also saw that each kid had a little cot with their own blanket and pillow for nap time. The cots were stacked neatly beside the teacher’s desk and would not be set out until after lunch when it was nap time.

Every school year thousands of students embark on the painful process of composing a research paper. It is a ritual that no one is expected to enjoy; it is seen as something that simply must be done. Students are expected to pick a topic, research it, and then transfer the information into a research paper. These papers often say nothing, but manage to spend just long enough saying it to bore and pain students, parents, and teachers alike. This, in many respects, is not only an unproductive process, but in many situations is counterproductive, leaving students hating research and not understanding what they were asked to accomplish in the first place.