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The document discusses classroom management strategies for a new teacher. It emphasizes the importance of structure, organization, clear rules and expectations, and positive learning environment. The teacher believes that writing a daily schedule on the board, organizing the classroom, and establishing consequences for misbehavior or rewards for good behavior will help create an orderly classroom. The document also stresses involving parents by communicating regularly through a class website, emails, and a welcome letter to outline expectations for the school year and keep parents informed. The overall goal is to establish a safe, focused, and cooperative learning environment for students.

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Chapter 10

The document discusses classroom management strategies for a new teacher. It emphasizes the importance of structure, organization, clear rules and expectations, and positive learning environment. The teacher believes that writing a daily schedule on the board, organizing the classroom, and establishing consequences for misbehavior or rewards for good behavior will help create an orderly classroom. The document also stresses involving parents by communicating regularly through a class website, emails, and a welcome letter to outline expectations for the school year and keep parents informed. The overall goal is to establish a safe, focused, and cooperative learning environment for students.

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Running head: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT 1

Chapter 10: Classroom Management

Professor Miller

Andrea Cobbley

11/11/19

Salt Lake Community College


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Chapter 10: Classroom Management

“A productive learning environment is a classroom that is safe, orderly, and focused on

both academic and social-emotional learning” (Kauchak & Eggen, p. 325). Students should be

well behaved and it should feel relaxed and orderly in the classroom. Classroom management is

so important for teachers, especially new teachers. If you do not have an orderly and organized

classroom it can really turn a classroom into chaos quickly. I think my philosophy is to have

structure and a safe learning environment. I think with a set schedule and structure it can make it

a lot easier on the teacher and the students because they will be able to prepare for what comes

next in the day. I think with reading the text and witnessing my field experience mentor I have a

pretty good understanding of how I would want my classroom to be managed.

I think structure is very important for a successful classroom. I have observed classrooms

that write the schedules on the board and I think this would be very helpful. If students see what

is happening at what time I think we would have a smoother transition and be able to move on

quickly. It is also very important to just have a very organized and clean classroom. I notice that

if my room or house is messy it makes me feel lazier and I think it can do the same to students in

a classroom. I will want to make sure I have a place for everything and that everything stays very

organized. I think it would be helpful to take some time at the beginning of the year and get this

done so I do not have to worry about it too much on a day-to-day basis. I think we will all feel a

lot more productive if the classroom is organized and structured.

Along with this, I will want to make sure that my classroom rules and expectations are

clearly stated so I can intervene when needed and they will understand why. It is hard to say all

of the expectations that I will have when I actually have my own classroom, but I will mainly

want them to stay on task and be respectful. They will need to understand that they cannot talk
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while I am talking and that if another student or presenter is sharing they need to listen. If they

break these rules they need to understand that there will be consequences. If they do something

small I could just have them lose some classroom privileges, but if it is more severe they could

lose recess time. If they follow the rules, I will definitely create some rewards they could get,

such as extra recess or treats.

“A positive classroom climate is an environment in which learners feel physically and

emotionally safe, feel personally connected to both their teacher and their peers, and feel worthy

of love and respect” (Kauchak & Eggen, p. 326). Students need to be able to walk into the

classroom and feel like they are entering a positive, safe space. I want them to feel comfortable

with their peers and me and I want everybody to enjoy coming to school. I think this is crucial

because is students feel scared of something at school or not comfortable they will not want to

come and this can cause a lot of issues.

“Learning is a cooperative venture, and we, our students, and their parents are in it

together” (Kauchak & Eggen, p. 336). It is so important to involve parent in all aspects of their

children’s lives. They like to know what is happening and it is good for the student to have

support at school as well as at home. I think it would be great to have a class website that I would

update regularly to keep the parents up to date with everything that is happening. I would also

utilize email a lot to make sure that parents are involved and that they understand everything that

is happening. I think it would also be nice to mail a letter before school starts that tells the

parents and students how excited I am to be their teacher and maybe outline a few of my

expectations for the school year. I think this would be better than sending an email because it

feels more personal and the whole family can read it together. I will always want to make sure

parents receive feedback of negative behaviors, as well as positive behaviors.


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References

Kauchak, D., & Eggen, P. (2008). Introduction to Teaching. Upper Saddle River, New

Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.

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