Effective Classroom Management

Planning is essential to all classrooms; however, each classroom has different procedures, especially in a pre-k classroom. In Pre-k they are two different groups of students: morning and afternoon. Therefore, the schedules pertains to both groups, but at different times of the day. Also, in Mrs. Beaver’s classroom there is an assistant teacher; thus, emergency plans for substitutes are not needed. Additionally, pre-k students generally are unable to read; therefore, there is no objective or…

microsystems. In this case, his peers where the microsystem that was being affected here. This boy is not similar to the other boys and through the peer selection process they were not friends and he was not a part of their clique. As the helper in the classroom, I tried to encourage the group to work together and take everyone’s ideas and drawings into account. As the students nominated who was going to start drawing their bigger picture, they all pointed to one kid. I have noticed through my…

establishing a democratic classroom gives up control of the classroom, I believe it gives you greater control…

the classroom, teachers should monitor the amount of mobile technology in the classroom, because mobile technology makes it easy to look up answer for assignments and test on the internet, and it takes their intelligence away because no one is learning the material or gaining skills. Technology helps Students and teachers in the classroom because as we sail through the 21st century, technology in the classroom are becoming more predominant and teachers should use technology in the classroom…

Life’s a Fight I still remember the day I meet him; it was a hot and sunny day. our first class had ended, and I was putting away my Spanish class notebook. Suddenly, I see the principle coming through our class room door, but he was not alone. Behind him, there was twelve-year-old boy. His skin was light brown, dark hair, and with a friendly face. By the look he had on his face, you could tell this wasn’t his first time being the new kid. To be honest, I didn’t like something about him.…

My experience of visiting the Minot Air Force Base, Dakota Elementary School. The school was K-5 grade and I was allowed to observe multiple grade levels/classrooms. My first visit was to a fifth grade classroom. The classroom consisted of 19 students and the desks were in groups of four. They were doing a math lesson on the smart board on how to add decimals. The math series Dakota Elementary uses is McGraw-Hill with Common Core State Standards written in the corner of the book. When I asked…

My one remedial math class is the reason technology is not good in class rooms. I am the type of person that needs to see things for me to understand and comprehend it. This class is all online, with a bunch of different levels in it. The way they teach you isn’t a good way to learn anything. You sit there in a big class room with all different groups. You watch the videos they give you that are online and its up to you to figure out how to do the math. You can’t just watch a video and expect to…

Zoe is a normal teenager that attends high school in the big city of New York. She talks and acts like a regular New Yorker. Zoe connection with others is amazing to observe. During school hours Zoe spends the majority of her time in her classroom whether she has class or after school office hours. She is always with her friends. The majority of her friends are in the 10th grade and are taking the same classes as herself. Her group of friends are considered to be the “popular girls”. Her and her…

Multiple questions come into their mind, "which class room did I leave it in?", " Has anyone picked it up, or thrown it away?", or "will I get to my class on time" All these questions increases the anxiety in people. As soon as they get to that classroom they feel somewhat relief, but are anticipated…

Juan is a second grader that has been experiencing chronic misbehaviors daily in the classroom. He is the oldest of three children. The youngest is a newborn. A few of the behaviors observed that could be possibly caused by the stress of a newborn in the house are sucking his thumb as well as screaming and crying a t drop off time. To help eliminate this behavior teacher should encourage family to set aside a few extra minutes at drop off so the Juan can have a little one on one before…