Reflection Paper On Classroom Environment

It is our job as teachers at to help children to develop by creating a comfortable playing and learning environment in which they can spend their early years happily. This means that it is our responsibility to create a classroom environment in which the children can learn while they play, and play while they learn.[prs101y/1 page 23]

During the month of November, I became our school’s acting testing coordinator. Our testing coordinator was in an accident and went out on medical leave. She was suddenly out for an undetermined amount of time and with a severe concussion was unable to remember what she completed and what she did not. During her absence, there were two assessments and a survey that needed to me completed. These assessments included SAT 10, FFT (Teacher Survey) and MAP-R. This was a very demanding experience.

Before I started this course I thought it was mostly going to be about the development of children and their psychology throughout their school years. Now I think that this course is about the education process for teachers and the students as a whole. What changed my mind so quickly was that the very first chapter was about what makes up a good teacher, from their degree to self regulation and decision making. In this course I learned how teachers handle different situations in the classroom like differences in students and testing students knowledge. Chapter 2 form the class textbook was about the cognitive development of children and that is where we learned about Piaget’s our stages and Vygotsky's two ideas. The development paper was based off of their theories, and I was able to choose a age range to focus on using Piaget’s and Vygotsky's ideas.

The second key issue I have chosen to look at is the role of the adult within the environment. It is the role of the adult within the setting to create an interesting environment this is because it will encourage and motivate the children to play and learn. It is important that practitioners in the setting should provide recourses for the children that will help develop the children's imagination, creativity and their independent thinking and should also place them in places where children can have easy access to them. It is also the role of the adult to provide a supportive environment for children where children can play and learn. This is because providing a supportive environment will enable the children and young

Young children learn about the world around them by experimenting and trying new ways of doing things. The bonds they form with warm, nurturing teachers and the stimulating environment of their classroom forms the foundation for future learning. We help develop

I believe classrooms should have a wide variety of materials and experiences for each child to have an interest in. I also believe that through creativity and play, children develop problem solving skills, language skills, and social-emotional skills such as seeing others perspectives, responsibility, and sharing roles. According to Jean Piaget’s theory, we learn that as children develop, they practice different and more varied skills and become more effective with them. Ways to implement play in the classroom is by having a dramatic play area, when teachers provide a play area it sparks curiosity and helps them develop fine and gross motor skills and language skills. Another way to provide learning opportunities for kinesthetic, visual, and auditory learners is to provide guided readings, small groups, and centers in the classroom. As a teacher I will provide centers in the classroom that help children with small and gross motor skills, blocks, computers, arts and crafts, etc. Each child can engage in something they like, and can learn at their own pace. When children are placed in centers, it encourages them to socially interact and helps teachers hit their curriculum

First, children need to feel welcomed once they step a foot inside the school. As we know every child’s diversity is unique in their own way. We live in country that is composed of multicultural background structures. The center needs to have orientated staff that are capable to assist people inside the center. Let’s start by having a positive attitude towards others. A great example is, the receptionist at the center that I attend is very friendly always with a smile, greeting families as they come in. Furthermore, having an efficient staff is a well-practiced that should never change.

The teacher role in this classroom is to encourage the children to explore experience and enjoy the world through play. We want our teachers to get to know each child in a deeper way so that we can be part of their life. In this preschool the child’s role is to play, it’s their job to play. We believe that this is the way they learn by using their hands and other senses to explore and experience the real-life situation.

This Learning By Design (LBD) plan has been written for a Year 5 Class consisting of twenty-seven (27) students, fourteen (14) boys and thirteen (13) girls. The student body consists of several Year 5 prefects. Perfects are voted in students that take care of students in other younger grades and set good examples for them. This class of students is based on student data in the learning area of English. The data places students into five (5) different ability groups based on their English skills, knowledge and understandings. The focus of this assessment is structured on the learning area English based on vocabulary, decoding/word attack, fluency, comprehension of fiction/non-fiction (or informational) texts and spelling.

There are many different types of attachments that I have observed in the Magnolia classroom. Some are attachments to the children’s personal belongings and others are attachments to people, such as the teachers. Growing out of these attachments is good for the children’s social-emotional development.

When I first signed up for this class I didn’t know what to expect. But after two classes, I realized it was a class to discuss and interpret curriculum from a deeper and substantial stand point. Outside of simply teaching a lesson, what is the purpose of the lesson? How can you make the lesson relevant to students lives or real world situations? These are abstract thoughts each teacher should have to design curriculum that students not only understand but increases engagement, and participation within class. This will only enhance pedagogy of the content as well as how students absorb it.

It is really amazing how excited students get with the possiblity of using the computer in the classroom to assist them with their lesson. The teacher added that she uses it as a reward system, stating how affective it is in maintaining order and control in the classroom. Students knew how to navigate, go to various websites that were related to the lesson and create a folder in which to put their assignments in.

It is crucial for me to provide a warm and attractive setting in classroom to encourage children to learn through play. It is important for any educator to ensure that the curriculum is child-centered so that children can be motivated to construct their own knowledge. My main objective is to create a classroom of leaders, where the children understand the uniqueness of each other and respect it as well as increase their passion in learning. My role as a teacher is to make sure that no child is left behind and that all my students are improving themselves not only academically but also as a

As I spend more time in the classroom each week, I find myself realizing more and more about my personal feelings on classroom management. When I compare my opinions and feelings on classroom management, I see connections between my beliefs and those represented by all three of the behavioral theorists we have been studying; Lee Canter, Linda Albert, and Alfie Kohn. While each of these theorists have varying opinions on how to manage students, I feel that they all have important points that should be included in a successful classroom management plan.

This reflection paper addresses as a student and counseling professional how I feel as though I have been readily prepared to teach in higher education and areas, concepts, strategies, and thoughts on how I have evolved through this course. This course has made me think more into how the most powerful, durable, and effective agents of educational change are not the policy makers, the curriculum developers or even the education authorities themselves; they are the teachers. It further contends that the quality of the educational changes that teachers have the skills and opportunities to effect will only be as reliable and proficient as the teachers’ individual capacities for reflective practice and the development of self-knowledge (Stepien, 1999). These aspects of teacher development have, historically, been largely overlooked in the preparation and promotion of effective teachers. The emphasis has been more explicitly focused on the development and demonstration of teachers’ understanding of content knowledge and the associated pedagogies and in their capacities to understand their students as individual constructors of knowledge in diverse social contexts (Bosworth, 1999).