Effective Classroom Management

Hi Keith and Tonya, I hope everyone had a great weekend. Tonya and Keith, I want to e-introduce both of you to Kent Black (cc'd). Kent works for Charter School Jobs, which holds multiple job fairs throughout the school year to connect schools and talent. Majority of the job fairs have been held outside of the Newark area. I've attached a flyer with more information on the fair. Kent and I have talked and put together preliminary plans to host the CSJ Career Fair here at PPCS. Since I have…

It was the second week of school junior year, in my third-period physics class. The bell rang shrilly, signaling the commencement of my own living hell. The teacher - a small, wiry man with a bit too much bite - sat in the back of the room. Grade book, and red pen in hand, he waited impatiently with a cold glare. The clock's ticking was loud in my ears and mixed with my rapid heartbeat. His eyes brushed down a list of names quickly and came to a sudden halt. With a glance toward me, he called me…

school at Herbert Hoover Elementary. I walked through my front door, threw my blue butterfly backpack onto the hook, and ran directly up to my room. At the time, it could be more accurately referred to as my classroom. Inside yellow and blue painted walls with a chalkboard and cliche classroom posters, I taught my class of invisible students the exact same lesson Mrs. Molle taught that day in my first grade class. I have always aspired to be a teacher for as long as I can remember, and I have…

I looked nervously around the classroom and discovered very similar looks of worry on the faces of my classmates. As the teacher drew closer and closer to my desk, fear started taking over, and a million thoughts ran through my mind. I just knew I had done a horrible job on it. When she…

In the B331 classroom, we should all be positive and hard-working. We all want the class to be able to work together and be able to collaborate with one another, we all would have to be nice to one another. We can’t have someone feeling uncomfortable with sharing ideas with the class if kids will laugh at it. We also need to be hard-working so we can get the work done. My thesis is a positive classroom leads to hard working students. One reason why B331 needs to be a positive classroom that…

The environment of a classroom is a very important factor in a child’s education and should include a variety of centers, equipment, and space. Ideally the classroom will provide the students with different learning tools and stimuli in an area that does not feel overcrowded or cluttered. Children should be provided with an environment that is not over crowded with too many students and not enough resources- something that can be difficult in certain school systems. Overall the indoor…

lead them to study hard and become successful so that he uses his knowledge of students’ cultural legacies to change their attitudes in his classroom. Escalante tells the students that they are smarter than what they think of themselves, and he believes that they can be more successful than they think. For example, Ana, is the most excellent student in the classroom. However, she wants to go to college and attend medical school after. However, Ana’s dad does not want her to go to college and…

Assessment So, the last couple of weeks have been eye opening. Being in a classroom has allowed me fully understand what teaching is going to be like. This last week the students took a district test, this test was created by teachers throughout Albany County. My practicum teacher was not involved in making this quarters test, she was responsible for quarter twos test. During one of the math sections the class as a whole went through the test that they took. My practicum teacher stated she…

handle diversity in the classroom and allowed me to have experience with dealing with some of the issues that arose. It was my first experience in the school system and shaped my desire to become an elementary teacher. I knew that I wanted to make a difference in a life and believed that after seeing my teacher interact with her students, the best way was to start when they…

In a classroom, as a first time teacher, not only are you the teacher but also a student. As a teacher you learn your new environment and also in the beginning of a new school year, your students. Classrooms are very unpredictable places for both teachers and students but, determining reinforcements and consequences is essential also teaching them to the students and spending the time to explain the benefits of following them, is a critical time spent well for a new teacher. It saves them time…