Classroom Management Plan
I fully believe that classroom management has the ability to make or break a students’ classroom experience. It is of utmost importance that students are able to feel comfortable, safe, and motivated in their learning environment. With these things, students should be able to fully open their minds to learning!
Setting classroom rules: Have students participate in rule making at the beginning of the year. By having students involved in the rule making process, the class is able to converse as a whole about what is important to them and why. Keep it to a few rules so that the students may easily recall them. Also, these rules may be displayed in the classroom to serve as daily reminders.
Some rules I would like to guide the students in implementing include:
· Mutual respect: to recognize and appreciate individual differences. To offer feedback and encourage growth
· Attentive listening: check for understanding, know that whoever is speaking has been heard
· Appreciation/no put downs: Treat others kindly
· The right to pass: If students are uncomfortable sharing their thoughts in class discussion, they have the right to pass
Create a community: Through observation and communication, I plan on building relationships with each student I teach. By doing so, I will better know how to assist individual students with their learning. Also, I plan to assist the students with getting to know each other. By creating a community within a classroom, it allows the students to become more vulnerable with their learning by offering up their answers and questions more freely. Additionally, continuously being aware of our students’ interests, understanding, and background, we have the ability to create an interesting and positive learning environment for our students. This contributes to making the students and teachers time in the classroom more meaningful and manageable!
Make learning attractive and positive for students: This goes hand in hand with creating a community within the classroom. I plan to have students highly involved in classroom activities and their learning. I believe that by keeping the students at the center of my focus, I will be able to greatly engage the students. By doing so, their desire to learn about the topics at hand may increase significantly.
Be consistent with disciplinary actions: It is critical that there are disciplinary actions that are implemented so students are aware of what is and what is not acceptable behavior. Being consistent is key as it allows students to have clear expectations of what will occur if their behavior is deemed unacceptable. Misbehaviour should be dealt with quickly, consistently and effectively. This is how I would deal with misbehaviour if it were to progressively escalate:
1. Low-key responses can be effective and will not disrupt the class. Such as making eye contact with the student, using their name during instruction, placing a hand on their desk, etc.
2. Discretely and politely discuss with the student why his/her behaviour is a problem.
3. Quietly ask the student to step into the hall. After the student has had some time to think about his/her behavior, I will go out and discuss it with him/her.
4. If things are still escalating, it may need to go to the principal’s office.
Model attitude and desired behavior: If I want to see positive attitudes and well-behaved students in the classroom, I should display that attitude and behavior. By being positive and displaying patience (among other attributes), it is more likely that my students will feel excited and encouraged with their learning while more willingly showing me respect.
Encouraging all students: Let students know when they are doing well! Take note and encourage students with words when they have shown great effort and improvement on assignments, their behaviour, and/or tasks. By taking notice of appropriate behavior and actions, they are more likely to occur again in the future while also decreasing the likelihood of misbehaviour. With the use of specific feedback, I plan to commend those within my class as they progressively develop.
Setting classroom rules: Have students participate in rule making at the beginning of the year. By having students involved in the rule making process, the class is able to converse as a whole about what is important to them and why. Keep it to a few rules so that the students may easily recall them. Also, these rules may be displayed in the classroom to serve as daily reminders.
Some rules I would like to guide the students in implementing include:
· Mutual respect: to recognize and appreciate individual differences. To offer feedback and encourage growth
· Attentive listening: check for understanding, know that whoever is speaking has been heard
· Appreciation/no put downs: Treat others kindly
· The right to pass: If students are uncomfortable sharing their thoughts in class discussion, they have the right to pass
Create a community: Through observation and communication, I plan on building relationships with each student I teach. By doing so, I will better know how to assist individual students with their learning. Also, I plan to assist the students with getting to know each other. By creating a community within a classroom, it allows the students to become more vulnerable with their learning by offering up their answers and questions more freely. Additionally, continuously being aware of our students’ interests, understanding, and background, we have the ability to create an interesting and positive learning environment for our students. This contributes to making the students and teachers time in the classroom more meaningful and manageable!
Make learning attractive and positive for students: This goes hand in hand with creating a community within the classroom. I plan to have students highly involved in classroom activities and their learning. I believe that by keeping the students at the center of my focus, I will be able to greatly engage the students. By doing so, their desire to learn about the topics at hand may increase significantly.
Be consistent with disciplinary actions: It is critical that there are disciplinary actions that are implemented so students are aware of what is and what is not acceptable behavior. Being consistent is key as it allows students to have clear expectations of what will occur if their behavior is deemed unacceptable. Misbehaviour should be dealt with quickly, consistently and effectively. This is how I would deal with misbehaviour if it were to progressively escalate:
1. Low-key responses can be effective and will not disrupt the class. Such as making eye contact with the student, using their name during instruction, placing a hand on their desk, etc.
2. Discretely and politely discuss with the student why his/her behaviour is a problem.
3. Quietly ask the student to step into the hall. After the student has had some time to think about his/her behavior, I will go out and discuss it with him/her.
4. If things are still escalating, it may need to go to the principal’s office.
Model attitude and desired behavior: If I want to see positive attitudes and well-behaved students in the classroom, I should display that attitude and behavior. By being positive and displaying patience (among other attributes), it is more likely that my students will feel excited and encouraged with their learning while more willingly showing me respect.
Encouraging all students: Let students know when they are doing well! Take note and encourage students with words when they have shown great effort and improvement on assignments, their behaviour, and/or tasks. By taking notice of appropriate behavior and actions, they are more likely to occur again in the future while also decreasing the likelihood of misbehaviour. With the use of specific feedback, I plan to commend those within my class as they progressively develop.