Susan's Morning Routine Research

Managing learning environment is a long process which demands from teacher organization and leading skills but also psychological knowledge. Maslow described the basic human need as that for safety, security, acceptance, and recognition. Only when these needs are met, it is possible to fulfill the human need for mental challenges. Therefore, students are able to learn and behave when they feel safe, secure, and accepted.
I think that Susan's morning routine is consistent and well organized. Susan's morning routine can be modified for younger students who do not change classrooms by providing them more verbal and visual overviews. However, …show more content…
At this point most of her learners know what are the teacher's expectations and how to behave in the classroom. With the older students it can be kind of review and reinforcement of the appropriate behaviors. For example, morning routine for older students can be modified by song. Based on my experience in the foreign language classroom, a song can help learner to be ready for the class. After playing a specific song students will know that they should be ready to start classroom's schedule right after it is over. Following the statement on page 20 "The less dependent the children are on unnatural prompts, especially verbal prompts, and the more they are reinforced for responding appropriately to natural prompts, the easier behavior management becomes for children". However, it may not work with younger groups of children because they can be too dependent on teachers and parents at the beginning of their learning process. Additionally, they love predictability, so implement consistent daily schedules will benefit with younger children. According to Zirpoli "most behaviors are learned, and teachers can teach new behaviors and change or modify current behaviors (Zirpoli, ). In my opinion, for 8th grade students who don't follow the