Classroom Management Philosophy

Since being at Munger Hill Elementary for my observation hours I have learned and been taught so much about classroom management. Classroom management is very essential and critical to have because if it wasn’t done our jobs as teachers would be difficult and unorganized. I am very glad that I have learned some new things on how to manage a classroom because as a teacher in the future I will use these things in my classroom. I have learned that my cooperating teacher has many beliefs about the children and classroom management. One of her beliefs about the children and classroom management that I think is the most important is that the main key to a well functioning classroom is creating respect with other students and the teacher and the …show more content…
Necessary changes are only made with the rules if she thinks the students don’t really understand the rule completely and is confused by it because of sometimes having the wording be to hard. Yes I do personally think that the rules are applied equally and consistently to all the students. The reason why I think the rules are applied equally and consistently to all the students is because if the students break any of the rules they all know what the consequences are. The teacher made sure when she was making the rules for the classroom to apply them to all the students equally and accurately. Yes I do think the established rules match my own beliefs of classroom management. I strongly believe that rules like this should be followed in every classroom regardless if they are for special ed students or not. I know that when I am a teacher that these basic rules are ones that I will apply in my classroom so they can be taught basic skills that will help them all throughout the school year which deal with behavior and management. Classroom organization and rituals I noticed are parts of the classroom management system. My teacher establishes these two things by sometimes sending home little notes to the parents of students saying they had a good day or if they misbehave those parents get a negative note instead. Some of the students in class usually get negative notes sent home to parents instead because there are a couple who I have noticed misbehave a lot. Another thing my teacher does to establish these two things is by sometimes giving certain students during the day little breaks because they require them. In the class there is a corner in the room where it is considered a cool off corner where students sometimes need to