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This form is a working plan to help you develop your thinking and make plans to manage your classroom in ways that maximize learning opportunities for students. The focus of your plan should be on engaging students in productive behaviors so that unacceptable behaviors have no place in your classroom. Every teacher benefits by planning for productivity.
1. Instruction and Classroom Management
Create a statement that reflects your thoughts about the connection between instruction and classroom management.
2. Characteristics of a Well-Managed Classroom
Below list what you believe to be the top three characteristics of a well-managed classroom.
3. Arranging Your Room
Is your classroom arranged to promote positive student interaction in your class. Are there areas where students can work together, an area for independent study, an area for student-teacher conferencing? Given a choice, describe 3 changes (without spending money) you would make to your classroom to ensure an inviting classroom environment. Keep in mind visibility, distractibility & accessibility. Explain how your arrangement might affect your instruction and student behavior.
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4. Rules and Procedures
Routines and procedures help produce safe and orderly environments in which students work to achieve their curricular goals. What preparations will you plan to involve students in developing and implementing rules and procedures necessary for classroom activities conducive to students’ success? List 3 or more rules and/or procedures that are necessary for the effective management of your classroom.
5. Classroom Expectations in a 21st Century Classroom
How is 21st Century classroom practice different from traditional classroom practice?. List three 21st Century practices you will incorporate into your own classroom; indicate what support the teacher will provide and what responsibility the student will have with each practice.
21st Century Practice #1:Teacher Support:
Student Responsibility:
21st Century Practice #2:
Teacher Support:
Student Responsibility:
21st Century Practice #3:
Teacher Support:
Student Responsibility:
Example: 21st Century Practice: Instructional tools include a broad range of content sources, including primary sources and technology-based resources.
Teacher Support: The teacher will locate relevant primary source documents, through either hard copy or electronic means, as well as other resources that link content to relevant life events.
Student responsibility: The student will access varied source documents and engage with course content via a sufficient number of venues to promote connections between primary course content and relevant life events.
6. Teacher Language: Mutual Respect and Appreciation
Much can be gained with questioning and suggestions rather than commands and dictation. Whereas teachers need to be consistent in their treatment of students, they also need to speak encouragingly and professionally to students.
Consider areas of classroom management that may be troublesome and think of ways you can plan positive statements and/ or actions to “head off” improper behavior. Does standing in the doorway of your classroom deter students from running in the hall? Would asking WXY to “please hold the door for MNO” eliminate his idea of slamming the door as he leaves the room?
List three or more examples of the use of positive language to deter improper behavior by students. What additional factors need to be considered to promote positive behavior in these instances?
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7. Your “First-Day-of-School Script”
Now that you’ve thought through “the big picture” on classroom management, list below some of the things you will include in your all-important “First-Day-of-School Script.”