In terms of setting up and organizing a classroom, introducing and applying the rules comes before building relationships with the students because even though the relationship aspect is important, the students need to learn how to behave and follow the rules accordingly.
Putting rules into place and building relationships with the students are equally important but, if I had to rank them, rules would have to come first. It is very important that the students know the rules of the classroom in the beginning because if they do not know the rules, the students automatically assume that there aren’t any rules and they can just walk all over the teacher. This is bad because the teacher ends up loses her authority as a higher figure. If a teacher …show more content…
For example, I loved the points she made about being consistent, yet knowing when to change something when it’s not working. She quotes Rick Smith, the author of Conscious Classroom Management, “Consistency is not about being robotic, it’s about being human.”. This is relevant to modern society’s teaching methods because frequently, teachers assume that a lesson plan from 1995 will still work for a classroom in 2015. What Smith is trying to say is that, yes don’t make big changes every single day but still when you see that minor things aren’t working the way they used to, it’s okay to revise how you do those things. It’s all about being human rather than being a …show more content…
For example, in the article McKibben talks about how Otis Kriegel uses a specific method to get his elementary school kids to get into a nice and neat line in front of the door. Now, if he did this to high school students, he would probably get laughed at and ignored. Elementary school kids need more direction and guidance while high school students are starting to become individuals and think for themselves. If a teacher taught elementary school kids the same way they taught high schoolers then the elementary school kids would get very confused and lost. It’s all about adapting your teaching methods to the specific age group that you are teaching. That way, the students really understand what they are
Putting rules into place and building relationships with the students are equally important but, if I had to rank them, rules would have to come first. It is very important that the students know the rules of the classroom in the beginning because if they do not know the rules, the students automatically assume that there aren’t any rules and they can just walk all over the teacher. This is bad because the teacher ends up loses her authority as a higher figure. If a teacher …show more content…
For example, I loved the points she made about being consistent, yet knowing when to change something when it’s not working. She quotes Rick Smith, the author of Conscious Classroom Management, “Consistency is not about being robotic, it’s about being human.”. This is relevant to modern society’s teaching methods because frequently, teachers assume that a lesson plan from 1995 will still work for a classroom in 2015. What Smith is trying to say is that, yes don’t make big changes every single day but still when you see that minor things aren’t working the way they used to, it’s okay to revise how you do those things. It’s all about being human rather than being a …show more content…
For example, in the article McKibben talks about how Otis Kriegel uses a specific method to get his elementary school kids to get into a nice and neat line in front of the door. Now, if he did this to high school students, he would probably get laughed at and ignored. Elementary school kids need more direction and guidance while high school students are starting to become individuals and think for themselves. If a teacher taught elementary school kids the same way they taught high schoolers then the elementary school kids would get very confused and lost. It’s all about adapting your teaching methods to the specific age group that you are teaching. That way, the students really understand what they are