Classroom Management At Platte County Elementary School

I have had the please of volunteering many times in a classroom at Platte County Elementary School. When I was in high school I tutored a first grade classroom, so I went back to the same teacher and she was more than willing to answer some of the questions that I had and it was great to see that her classroom is still functioning the exact same way it was eight years ago. This only means that the way she manages her classroom must be very effective. This was a great opportunity for me to observe classroom management in a classroom setting. You can picture how you want your classroom to go, but until you see it in action you won 't know if it will work. She has a set routine for every single thing she does in her classroom and a procedure …show more content…
From the first day of school the students have been rehearsing the same routine and it took a few weeks for the students to fully understand it, she said. I like her morning routine the best. The students will come in the mornings with a library book that must have been read the night before. The students will take turns on the computers as they show up for class taking a quiz on the book. The students that get to school and there is not a computer available they must work on their journal that is posted on up on the board or go and turn their book in at the library. The teacher will do lunch count, attendance, and morning announcements as this is going on. The students are always busy and there is no time for down time in her classroom. Everything that happens in her classroom is based on time management which is very important in a classroom to be …show more content…
I strive to become just as effective as she is not only in classroom management, but as a teacher. I have be able to see how she takes her students and transforms them in independent students. I have seen the chaos at the beginning thinking she 's crazy to the end where her students have transformed into young independent