The Importance Of Classroom Management

Throughout my time on professional placement not only was I given opportunities to teach, I was also given opportunities to observe my mentor teacher and other teachers. Through these observations I gained an understanding of multiple aspects of teaching and classroom management that I would often miss or be unaware of during my own teaching. When analysing my observations, there were a number of themes that stood out. However, it was the students that interested me the most. The school is largely multicultural with over 35% of the school population was born outside Australia in 52 different countries. When observing both theory and practical classes, I noticed a wide range of abilities in physical terms including skill and fitness, as well as cognitive abilities. On a number of occasions, I witnessed students lack of engagement with a task or activity, which would then in turn affect students’ motivation and ability to stay on track with the task leading to off task behavior. Sallis and McKenzie (1991) argued that positive experiences in PE could influence children to adopt physically active adult lifestyles which can improve public health. It is, therefore, important to understand the motivational, cognitive, and affective processes that can determine whether children will regard PE as a valuable, enjoyable, and rewarding experience, or as a worthless, boring, and humiliating one. The following essay will reflect and analyse on the themes of, ‘motivation’ influenced by a

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.

Once again, my student teaching time has given me new challenges that I had not encountered to this point. As students have become more comfortable with me as their teacher, their behavior has slightly changed and is no longer the quiet, hesitant students that I had started with. It is nice to have them now willing to participate but they are beginning to blurt out answers and not properly raise their hands. It is these minor things that they are starting to neglect to do and causing slight problems with classroom management. Even though these problems do occasionally bubble up it provides me with the chance to use some of my classroom management skills that I have not been able to work on.

A.        The philosophy that I am developing behind my classroom management plan is one that is based on clear communication with my students.  I believe that it is important to value relationships with students because that is the starting point of creating a classroom climate that is positive and consistent.  It is my goal to cultivate self-directed students so that the behavior management is not taking up lots of valuable class time.  Although school seems competitive in its nature because we use grades as the form of evaluation, it is my thought that competition in the classroom should be limited because this will increase better behavior and achievement in all students.  Promoting the success of all

The foundation for management a classroom begins creating a classroom management plan. Comprehending how to properly manage a classroom begin with understanding the rationale of having a plan. Contrast to what some people may think class management is not merely a method to have control of the environment. As stated by Newman (2013) classroom management objective is to have an effective means to generate the environments that enable learning, regardless of the students’ age. In order to achieve this feat a classroom management plan must incorporate guidelines and procedures (Newman, 2013).

Classroom management plays a crucial role in shaping a student’s performance in class. As a result, a teacher’s role is ensuring a conducive learning environment for all students. Teachers must put their best foot forward in ensuring they develop this invaluable skill which can only be learnt through continuous practice in the classroom. Generally, teachers are expected to manage their classrooms during the lessons. They are expected to arrange the classrooms (students), clearly outline the class rules before the start of a lesson, command behavior expectations, outline lesson goals as well as move around the

In many classrooms, especially from schools serving low socio-economic communities, teachers spend considerable part of their class time and energy to deal with behaviour related issues. Behaviour needs to be dealt with appropriately, before and after its occurrence. It is always preferable to prevent behaviour from occurring, to applying strategies to deal with an already occurred behaviour. Prevention can minimise, if it cannot eliminate. A rich assortment of approaches to apply prevention are widely published - that are referred in the remaining paragraphs - many of which are underpinned by teachers’ skills and appropriately prepared lessons.

I want to keep my classroom management philosophy simple. Along the same lines that Mr. Murray described. If it’s not a big problem such as cheating or violence against another student/teacher then I would like to handle it on my own. As during my high school experience, I had one teacher that would just hold a student after class and discus the issue that had taken place during class. I think that by taking care of the issue this way I will gain the trust and respect of my students. That I’m not going to write them up for the little things but I will let them know when their behavior is out of line and needs to be corrected. However, With planning on becoming a baseball coach I think I would use a three strike rule. Meaning, that if it becomes a constant problem then they will be written up for the repeated offense on the third such occasion. I think this would be the best possible policy because every student makes mistakes throughout the school year .

Monitoring your students work with numbers or even color code them. Check your students work every day to keep the motivation going. When grading, make sure students understand the criteria and how you grade. Sitting down with them and talking with them will give no surprises to your students. Within the conference, talk to the students, make sure students have their own grade book so they can monitor as well, and give them advice to know what to do better and how they can achieve (Ridnouer, 101-102).

Elli had worked on classroom management since her senior year of high school. During her senior year of college, she had a really good class. She would talk about something and then apply it the next day. It is important to be consistent. Consistency is important in the classroom because students thrive on routines and consistency. A well managed classroom is even more important to students than teachers. It gives them a sense of security. In a classroom that is consistent, students know from day-to-day how the classroom is structured and organized.

According to the text, “Classroom management refers to the skills and strategies that teachers use to organize instruction and maximize the productive use of their instructional time.” (Moreno 408) In other words, Classroom Management is one of the Effective Teaching is strategies used by the teachers that sets high expectations for the student. One claim that can be made is that Having Effective Teaching in a classroom turns it into a successful learning environment. That being said, what makes an effective teacher is using predetermine strategies which they learned in classroom for students to accomplish their goals. One strategy can be preparing lesson plan in advance. That means the teacher must have her lesson planned out before the class starts. A well structured lesson plan includes, clean and clear worksheet meaning it must have definition of the vocabularies which will prevent them from getting confused. Having some extra school supplies so, it doesn’t make distraction when they start asking from others. Having lesson timed, the teacher must time the activities she is going to talk about. So, she doesn’t have to spend much or less time on each topic or activities. According to Danielson’s framework, There are basically two approaching that define Effective Learning, One is “Teacher practices, that is, what Teachers do, how well they do the work of teaching.” And Two is, “Results, that is, what teacher accomplish, typically how well their students learn.”

Teacher training focuses on understanding child growth and development, teaching and learning, behavior and pedagogical practices. These elements form the pool of knowledge teachers use to teach effectively. Whilst these are extremely important elements for teachers to understand, without adequate knowledge of the models and theories for classroom management, these concepts can seem removed from hands-on experiences in the classroom and schoolyard. This essay aims to analyse three classroom management theories by highlighting the people involved, the key principles, the strengths and weaknesses of the models and summarises the similarities and differences between them. These are the Goal Centered Theory, the Choice Theory and the Assertive Discipline Theory.

When it comes to teaching, it’s not so much about best moments, but the diminutive activities that happen each day, because when you walk in, you're cared about. Your teaching philosophy stays the same, but as you age, you change how you teach/discipline due to perception. There is no advantage in knocking people down. Your perception of students changes as you age, since as you become older, it is easier to be farther strict and disciplining. You can stick to the same technique and be bored, or you can change it up. Your pay does not increase, but the job will become farther interesting. You also attain fewer discipline problems/threats as you age. Classroom management is everything, as it is the most important aspect of teaching and managing a class. Some teachers who are really great at making lesson plans have difficulty managing a class. Classroom management is different depending on where you go. Routines are set up, not ruled, and there are no punishments for breaking routine. Routines change over the school year, but they’re always connected to prior routine. No one will hear the lesson if you can't manage your class. When teaching special needs, all teaching is commendable teaching practice. It is imperative to use all 5 senses, as we learn terrific using our 5 senses. Whatever sense you use depends on who you work with. If you teach first grade or kindergarten, you can teach any group of special needs kids. The biggest challenge for kids today is being satisfied.

A. Create a philosophical statement that embodies your thoughts on classroom management, referencing one classroom management theory that supports your personal philosophy.

In education there are plenty of learning theories and research studies designed to create a