Who are Harry and Rosemary Wong? As I open my copy of The First Days of School, the first thing I did was turn to the about the authors section. The answer spoke greater volumes than the single sentence they provided about the authors: they are teachers. A management plan should be a direct reflection of the teacher. For me, I find that being prepared and making plans helps me function in my day to day life. The Wong’s theory aligns closest with my own views, in the belief classroom management does not just happen on its own; effective teachers plan ahead to have effective management plans. I have heard countless peers’ tell me they go into teaching to make a difference in students’ lives. To do so, requires being an effective teacher. In
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Discipline as defined by the Wong’s is reactive, problem-driven, has negative consequences as punishments, and promotes compliance while stopping deviant behavior (Wong, 2014). On the other hand, classroom management is proactive, productivity-driven, has rewards as increased learning time, and promotes responsibility while producing predictable behavior (Wong, 2014). While discipline is required, it does not lead to learning because it only momentarily stops unwanted behavior. The Wong’s clarify that more than 80% of behavioral difficulties have little to do with discipline, but are instead linked to classrooms that lack procedures and routines. Ineffective teachers’ waste time reacting to these unwanted behaviors. Contrariwise, the effective teacher has proactively produced a management plan that averts these problems from happening in the first place (Wong, 2014). They end the chapter with affirming effective classroom management is to ensure student engagement leads to an industrious working …show more content…
Procedures are a part of our everyday lives. There are procedures to making a phone call, to cook a meal, to buy a movie ticket, even to go to the bathroom! The Wong’s say classroom management entails of the practices and procedures a teacher uses to sustain an environment in which instruction and learning can succeed (Wong, 2004). They go on to define procedures as the tasks students must do to increase their chances for learning and achieving. Procedures create a proficient and methodical classroom so that learning can take place (Wong, 2014). The key to procedures is to keep in mind they must be rehearsed. Simply telling a student what to do is not adequate, they have to practice and rehearse. In THE Classroom Management Book, the Wong’s have outlined three steps to teaching procedures: teach, rehearse, reinforce. When teaching procedures, you can show videos, role-play, or create skits. The vital thing to keep in mind is students need to see what the correct procedure looks and sounds like. As silly as it sounds, there could be a student who simply does not know how to walk quietly in a straight line down the hall because no one ever showed them how to do it. The next step is to rehearse, you can do this by dividing students into small groups to run-through the procedures. Teachers should also post visuals of the various procedures around the room to help remind the students what is expected of them. If a student
Discipline as defined by the Wong’s is reactive, problem-driven, has negative consequences as punishments, and promotes compliance while stopping deviant behavior (Wong, 2014). On the other hand, classroom management is proactive, productivity-driven, has rewards as increased learning time, and promotes responsibility while producing predictable behavior (Wong, 2014). While discipline is required, it does not lead to learning because it only momentarily stops unwanted behavior. The Wong’s clarify that more than 80% of behavioral difficulties have little to do with discipline, but are instead linked to classrooms that lack procedures and routines. Ineffective teachers’ waste time reacting to these unwanted behaviors. Contrariwise, the effective teacher has proactively produced a management plan that averts these problems from happening in the first place (Wong, 2014). They end the chapter with affirming effective classroom management is to ensure student engagement leads to an industrious working …show more content…
Procedures are a part of our everyday lives. There are procedures to making a phone call, to cook a meal, to buy a movie ticket, even to go to the bathroom! The Wong’s say classroom management entails of the practices and procedures a teacher uses to sustain an environment in which instruction and learning can succeed (Wong, 2004). They go on to define procedures as the tasks students must do to increase their chances for learning and achieving. Procedures create a proficient and methodical classroom so that learning can take place (Wong, 2014). The key to procedures is to keep in mind they must be rehearsed. Simply telling a student what to do is not adequate, they have to practice and rehearse. In THE Classroom Management Book, the Wong’s have outlined three steps to teaching procedures: teach, rehearse, reinforce. When teaching procedures, you can show videos, role-play, or create skits. The vital thing to keep in mind is students need to see what the correct procedure looks and sounds like. As silly as it sounds, there could be a student who simply does not know how to walk quietly in a straight line down the hall because no one ever showed them how to do it. The next step is to rehearse, you can do this by dividing students into small groups to run-through the procedures. Teachers should also post visuals of the various procedures around the room to help remind the students what is expected of them. If a student