Classroom Management

Classroom Management Scotty Jiménez EDSE 500

Definition • Classroom management is creating a positive environment within the classroom that encourages learning and discipline on the part of the students and allows the teacher to effectively maintain that environment through motivation, disciplinary procedures, and positive reinforcement.

Discipline and Classroom Management Philosophy • The classroom is a game. Students are always trying to figure out ways to “get” the teacher. As long as you 1) stay above the students (ie, maintain authority, knowledge, and poise) and 2) do not let it show that you are affected if and when the students are ahead (being inconsistent with classroom management rules), control of the classroom can be managed and contained throughout the year.

Positive Learning Environment • My idea of a positive learning environment is one in which students want to learn the content and the teacher makes a positive impact on the students through motivation and encouraging individuals.

Positive Learning Environment(revised) • Motivation and encouraging still stands, but one can safely assume that students DO NOT want to learn the material. Thus, teachers responsibility to make it interesting.

Rules • Be in your assigned seat, ready to work when the bell rings. • Follow instructions the first time given. • Stay on task. • Keep body faced forward, with all body parts and belongings in personal desk space. • Respect the learning environment

Rules Revised • 4th block • Raise your hand and wait for permission to speak. • Raise your hand and wait for permission to leave your desk. • Keep your body and all body parts within your own desk area. • Extreme infractions result in write up. Every other block -I write you up at the point I consider

Consequences • Warning • Copy Spanish paragraph • Detention • Office Referral

Consequences revised • Warning (name on board) • 1 day afterschool detention (check) • 2 days (2 checks) • Write up (still serve detentions...?)

Rewards • REAL/GENUINE verbal praise • Marble jar or Harry Potter points? • Student of the week, dismissal

Rewards revised Pizza party for no cut slips coming back from lunch. Want to do tickets at next school

Procedures • Eyes on me when I am talking, always answer questions with some sort of response (verbal or visual) • Two bathroom passes per nine weeks, sign out of bathroom book. Unused passes count for extra credit. • Once you cross the threshold into my classroom, you have entered my space and my time. While in my classroom, you will abide to my rules and follow my time outline.

Procedures cont. 4. Notebook will contain 5 sections: Do Now, Vocabulary, Grammar, Conjugations, and Cultural Studies. Do Now hand in and Notebook check each Friday. 5. I am not a Spanish dictionary. Use dictionaries to look up words on your own. Spanish participation required for participation grade.

Procedures -eyes on me, impossible • 3 bathroom passes per 9weeks, bathroom book was CLUTCH • Threshold door was good • Notebook, more or less most students • Didn’t get Spanish dictionaries

Parental Contact • I want to contact each parent within 2 weeks of classes beginning. Discuss aspect of learning a new language and that I am here for any questions regarding my class. Because my class is not required to graduate, I do not plan on any problematic encounters with parents regarding grades However, I realize that parental contacts are a vital part in maintaining good classroom management and eliminating any problems with students that might deter other students who want to learn the language to do so.

Parental Contact cont. • Would like to organize some kind of culture events in which parents are invited to join students for Mexican dinner at local restaurant.

Parental contact • Called all parents within first 2 weeks of classes I predicted to be trouble (my Spanish I classes) • Student folders, color coded -parent contact sheet -discipline - DOCUMENT EVERYTHING Two parent chaperones

Classroom Management