Managing Your Classroom For Success

I believe classroom management is extremely significant for teachers and effective teachers know how to manage the classroom while helping students to behave appropriately. In order to be an effective ESL teacher, I will use demonstrating expectations, creating a safe learning environment, building a positive relationship, redirecting inappropriate behavior, and motivating in managing my future classroom.

Our reading for this week is from the uniquely formatted book written by Harry and Rosemary Wong titled, “The First Days of School; How to be an Effective Teacher.” The focus section of our reading is based in Unit C of the text, which focuses of Classroom Management. Chapters 11-16 were read, and these chapters focus on the topics of how to have a well managed classroom, effectively preparing the classroom, how to introduce yourself to students, seating arrangement/assignment, starting a class, and the proper timing and execution of taking roll. Essentially each chapter of this text follows the same format. There will be a few paragraphs discussing what “effective teachers” would do followed by a few paragraphs about what “ineffective teachers”

Just like philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed, I believe that a human being is naturally good and that sin and evil are unknown at birth. When a child is born they are born “neutralist”. Their pure minds have not been corrupted by the sins of society. They truly symbolize the definition of nature since their virtuousness has not been influenced by civilization. As a child grows older, they are exposed to cruel ways of corruption and sin. Children are born good but are corrupted by the environment that they were born into.

The first day of school sets the tone for the remainder of the school year. Careful planning of classroom management is the most important factor in ensuring a successful and meaningful school year. Another important factor is the establishment of classroom rules, procedures and routines. When students know exactly what is expected from them, they are able to succeed in the classroom. There are so many unknowns that are thrown their way that having these elements cemented in place allows the students to feel safe, respected and eager to learn.

The most important factor affecting student learning is the teacher. If the teacher is ineffective, students will achieve inadequate progress academically. Effective teaching and learning cannot take place in a poorly managed classroom. If students are disorderly and disrespectful, with no apparent rules and procedures to guide behavior, chaos becomes the norm. Teachers struggle to teach, and students will learn much less than they should. http://behaviourmanagementreport.weebly.com/

Being a male going into the elementary school education profession, I feel that I can be a postitive male role model for students who might lack that kind of male role model leadership needs. One of the first things that I will convey to my students is my philosophy on classroom management. My philosophy can be summed up in just two words: RESPECT and LEADERSHIP.

Classroom management is a popular topic in education. Teachers are always looking for ways to improve their classroom environment, or new ways to deal with problem behaviors. For every person who has ever worked with children, there is an idea, a theory, as to how to best meet children’s needs. Early theorists provide the basis for many current behavior management ideas, and often include a combination of ideas. Theorists such as Abraham Maslow, Rudolf Dreikurs, William Glasser, and Stanley Coppersmith offer insight into the behavior and motivations of children that help teachers design strategies to prevent disruption and provide a positive learning environment for all students.

A recent article written by Jana and Robert Marzano discusses key aspects of effective classroom management. Their collaborative research in psychology and education contributes to a deeper meaning of good student-teacher relationships. Their opinion on teaching methods gives all educators, instruction to learn from. The research presented in this article is certain to help establish successful classrooms.

Managing Small Group Activities Effectively. Although an instructor’s role should be minimized during an activity, it still must be managed. The groups should be divided by the instructor, the participants should know which topic they are working on, and the activity should be timed. I would have liked some kind of verbal instruction that helped all of the student know the learning outcome and why this task should be performed. The continual questions from the group could have been minimized with a little more intervention.

Keeping control in the classroom is an area where many teachers have an excessive need to improve upon. Certain studies, such as White (1975), have shown that the act of giving praise is a more effective tool than reprimanding, especially when trying to control the classroom or certain troublesome students. However, even with this evidence, teachers still tend to use excessive amounts of disapproving statements or body language, which will deteriorate their students positive view of them, preventing the praise and approval which helps students to respect their teacher, and behave for him/her. From the outside looking in, the amount a teacher reprimands her class is usually unavailable to the public’s eyes, a concern for many parents.

The most apparent one was the need to understand students in and out of the classroom. It is imperative to understand those issues that influence their behaviors, which either enhance their abilities to learn or diminish them. Many students arrive to class late, unprepared, hungry, tired, frustrated, thirsty, angry, hurt, or dispirited. I’ve learned to be observant and investigative and in most cases, students will open up and be forthcoming.

A. The teacher classroom manages the classroom in an extremely positive manner, and is strong on positive reinforcements. When she speaks to her students, her voice is soft and calm which allows her students to remain calm to correct their behavior. Students are aware of the classroom expectations and the proper behavior when they are working with other students. When the class is transitoning between activities she is clear with what they are expected to do, and how it should look like. When the whole class is not able to complete the task she does ask them to correct the behavior and allows them a second opportunity to successfully transition. Positive classroom management shows that students behave in a positive way and are less likely to

One of the biggest keys to being a successful teacher is classroom management. Of course, there are different needs depending on if you teach kindergartners or high school auto shop students, and every teacher has his or her own individual style. A constant through out all classrooms is this, without good classroom management, a teacher loses control. Once you lose control of the classroom the amount of actual teaching and learning diminishes to almost nothing.

As a future educator, it is extremely important to prepare for what is in store for each year. Every single class is different, and will bring something different to the table based on the different students in each class. It is extremely important to have a classroom management plan for a group of diverse learners for several reasons. From reading Wong’s book First Days of School, How to be an effective teacher, he states that after doing research in a study reviewing 11,000 pieces of research that spanned 50 years, three researchers determined that there are 28 factors that influence student learning, and the number one factor is classroom management. This is very clear that research backs up how important classroom management is. It is what allows teachers to be effective teachers for their students and are able to keep the students on track. Classroom management also offers organization in the classroom. It refers to all of the things a teacher does to organize students, space, time and materials so that learning can take place (Wong 1998). Without classroom management the entire class would be out of control and very little to no learning would take place.

more student-centred: the teacher gives a task or set of tasks, and students work on them independently; the teacher walks around monitoring