Classroom Management!

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"If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.- John Dewey"

 

Creating and managing the conditions where students can learn is a teacher’s most important job. The key to lead classes successfully we firstly need to be adapted to the skills of classroom management. 

 

It is obvious that each of us will have to face some problems during teaching children or students of a higher grade, but do you know what is the most important of all? BEING PATIENT.

We have to show patience, respect, tolerance and admiration to our students, so in this way they will give us respect back. If we notice that in the beginning of the class our students will be tired, sleepy or lazy about the day, we should be able to use some warm up exercises that attract their attention and make them feel energetic for the upcoming lesson. 

On the other hand, if we have those kind of prototype students, that never sit and always tease their classmates, we have to think of some exercises to make them sit , think. read or write. So in this way, we will activate their thinking skills.

Geography

I think that the best way to organize the class and to control it, is by creating a circle with the desks and the teacher's table in the middle. I think that in this way each of the students will feel comfortable, appreciated, encouraged and motivated.

The walls will be white, as white is the color that helps you stay more focused and see in more details.

During the time I was in high school, me and my classmates decided to draw the ' tree of life' in the wall, in a corner next to the blackboard, and each of us wrote their signatures in there. Till this day, our names still remain at the same class we used to develop our knowledge during three years.

And I think, that I will try to do the same with my future students, as I think this is a thing that 'lasts forever'.

Motivation

What mostly matters in a classroom management is Motivation, and I will definitely try my best to keep my students motivated. This will affect their grades as well, because as much more motivated you are, as more curious and interactive to the class you become.

The class is something that my students will own, and I will give my best to make them feel as comfortable as possible. 

Tips:

Always try to be adapted to the new forms of technology and always try to give a lot of feedback to your students. This will help them improve. 

Don't be monotonous. You will sound boring.

Built an unbroken relationship with the class. That is the best way to enjoy the lesson. One day they will graduate, and You will be part of the list of thanks for them. Be a Motive for Motivation. 

We only live once!

And don't forget, Knowledge is everything!

We gain what we work for. ☺

                                           I really hope you enjoyed reading this article!

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Classroom management Behavior!

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As future teachers, you have to be really careful, while managing your class. Always keep in mind than Behavior Management, most of the time, is the Key to Success. 

Having effective behavior will definitely make an amazingly Big Impact on your class. You can prepare a fabulous lesson, but if you can not manage the behavior, I don't think it will be worth it.

Finding a behavior management style that works for you is a Process.

I will show you some tips:

1.Create a class to identify or improve Behavior

While we decide a class name at the start of the school year, we can chose a name based on the theme of the year, it can be a suggestion from our students or a combination of a few names. Always remember to keep this topic fun, so the pupils will come up always with great ideas.
A few names you can use are:

1. Supermen
2. Leader's club
3. The dynamites

2. Build relationships

Building relationship with students shows that we care about them and that we are really interested in their well-being. At the beginning of the school year, try to save all their contact numbers, and contact with their families, with positive comments during the whole school year. Always be patient and let your students feel free to talk to you when having a problem. Be like a Big Brother/Sister to them. It is well said, 'The teacher becomes our second mother'.

3. Collaborative class rules

When collaborating with our students to make rules, a great classroom environment is also cultivated. We have to create rules that address how students are expected to interact with each-other. how are they expected to interact with each-other and with the physical space as well. Through this stage, they develop a sense of ownership for their classroom.

4. Routines

It will be better if we set clear routines for everything we would like our students to do in class. We have to be explicit about everything. Do not assume that students know the expectations for this class and also be sure to practice the classroom routines.

In my opinion it is a good idea to teach our routines and expectations in a way that allows us to differentiate ignorance versus defiance.

5. Rewards 

Rewards are the sweets of the day! They can be individual, group or class- based. Students contributed to the class rules, allow them to contribute to the rewards.

6. Be calm, quiet and consistent

When administering correction be sure to stay calm. Giving a behavioral consequence should not be emotional, rather it should be a response to the clearly outlined rules and routines of your classroom. Avoid threats and deliver consequences firmly.

7. Set high expectations

Set high academic and behavioral expectations. Everyone in the class should have a clear vision of what they want our classroom to look like in the behavioral aspect. Creating an academically engaging, rigorous class, is a great way to manage behaviors. If we make our class engaging students will be invested in the learning experience and less likely to be off task or misbehave.

8. Be an Example

Model the behaviors you as a teacher would like your students to display. You have to be open to the fact that you make mistakes as well. Of course be humble as well to admit them. Even if you apology to your students there is nothing wrong with it. Remember that respect is reciprocal so if you show respect to them, they will show respect to you. No doubts!

Thank you! I hope you will enjoy it, and feel free to leave your comments below!

Don't forget: You are the Best!

Problems during teaching!

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In today's post, we will discuss about the problems we encounter during teaching!

I hope you will find some interesting points in this blog and I also would like all of you to write down in the comments some other important problems!
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Increasingly I feel that teacher development, performance review and the whole apparatus around lesson observation should place a strong, central emphasis on understanding the challenges that teachers face in securing learning of all the students in a class. It can often be extremely difficult even for experienced expert teachers to nail every student's learning and this needs to be recognized. Management processes need to be geared towards supporting teachers to tackle the real challenges they encounter.

In this post I want to explore five most common challenges that teachers face:

1. They still don't get it. Persistent learning block.

Despite your best effort, students continue to struggle to understand what you're trying to explain or can't apply basic knowledge to more complex situations.

2. No time for practice. Engineering enough fine-grained practice before moving on.

Even if we know that practice is key, where does the time come from? I see students move from one barely grasped idea to another without having the time to practice in between. Solution to this might be to avoid rushing to use integrated forms of practice, such as extended writing, before students have practiced each part.

3. I can't get around to everyone. Real time checking for gaps in understanding.

It's so easy to sit in a lesson and see students that are masking their learning gaps where a teacher hasn't noticed. Among all the issues, I think the mindset shift is an especially important area to explore, to continually ask and explore the question: Who out there in the room still isn't sure? Have I explained enough? Does any one still not know and understand the answer?

4. If I let them talk, they don't all do it properly. Managing productive talk.

I'm a firm believer in the importance of talk as part of the learning process. It's how we rehearse our ideas, gain confidence with vocabulary and communicate in the dynamic flow of an instructional phase. The solution is to practice. I think it's essential that every teacher works hard to establish routines that allow them to switch from teacher- control mode to pair discussion mode any time they like, as often as they like.

5. They just don't do the work. Infusing peer cultures with a work ethic.

We can take the horse to water but we can't make it drink? The frustrations are real enough. Taking a group of students with a shared peer culture that doesn't include a work ethic around studying and turning them into scholars is hard. The solution is lie in making it easy from them to make them learn gains and to make study from part of group habits and norms: Breaking down tasks into small steps that are achievable and where success can be experienced and celebrated, before building towards more extended or complex tasks, teaching study routines, retrieval practice strategies, giving them accessible study guides, making study time part of the school day structure.

Teachers need time and the right working culture where they can openly express the difficulties they have in order to engage in finding solutions. If school cultures continue to reinforce a focus on teacher performance over student learning, top-down drop in, feedback and all that jazz, and continue to motivate teachers to talk up their practice and mask their difficulties, then we won't be doing anyone any favors, least of all the students.

             Let's solve the problems together!☺