Effective Classroom Management

their families for their contribution and struggles. As I mentioned before, my classes are not going to be easy because there will be much reading, writing and presenting. However, students will have fun. One practice that I will enforce in my classroom will be lunch appreciation once per month. Whether if I teach in middle or high school, I will create a student government group and we are going to have a raffle every day, which will require students to buy a raffle ticket for twenty-five…

Google Classroom is also another tool that allows students to collaborate with members of their class. This big difference between Edmodo and Google Classroom is only students in the class the teacher sets up are allow to interact with each other. A major disadvantage of Google Classroom is parents can’t join the class when they have an outside email other than our school system. Basically, only people that have “shelbyed.org” extension are the only ones allowed into the Google Classroom…

tutoring kids was the easiest part of this adventure. Walking into the classroom as a young teen sparked the kids interest rather than and older adult teacher. As part of the younger generation with the children in the room, comprehensive strategies were no problem between myself and the students. Legos and Barbies were our building block for counting, which lead kids to enjoy the learning and to take a break from their normal classroom procedure with their main teacher. Once the semester came…

Making content accessible is on my top ten list of crucial aspects of being a great teacher. When I think about content that is accessible, my mind goes to tasks that have more than one access point. In many math classrooms across the nation, there are a variety of skills that come with students that need to be taken into consideration when looking at curriculum. I believe that the best mathematical tasks are those that allow a student who is two or three level below grade level and a student at…

Does being in a single-gendered classroom increase girls’ math achievement? In these two research studies I am going to see if that statement appears to be true. In the studies I will include students from both a single-gendered classroom and a co-ed classroom. Since I grew up going to a co-ed school, I am very interested in seeing the results. I hope that these two studies will benefit parent’s decisions on whether or not they will send their girls to a single-gendered school. In my…

Ring! Ring! The buzzing sound from the alarm went off to wake me up to go to school. OHOOOO wait I have school today, that’s why the alarm went off. I did not wake up right away. Instead I hid under my big warm blue blanket until Dad came, and knocked on the door to make sure I am awake for school. When I finally got out of my bed I went to the bathroom started brushing my teeth and washing my face. As I was walking out of my bathroom door to the hall way, my dad started slowing dancing along…

life or playing outside with their friends. With the changing times, teaching styles and teachers’ curriculums need to change as well. Simply put, it is no longer a matter of if teachers should incorporate video games, but how can they do it in an effective and appropriate way. With this generation so much more partial to technology than any…

As my field work at Carter Elementary comes to an end, I can honestly say that nothing better prepares you for working with children than doing just that. No matter how many hours I sit in UTSA’s lecture halls and classrooms, or study the socially just and proper way to respond to each situation, it will never be more beneficial that being in an actual kindergarten class for two hours a week. As we progressed in IDS 2013, I was eager to visit my students in Mrs. Ferguson’s class and witness what…

the students play dice math, the teacher moves the desks into a square around the room so the students have room to roll the dice in the middle of the classroom floor. The teacher makes it so the students are able to sit in their chairs as well, so they can write down the problems comfortably. Parental Involvement To involve parents in the classroom, the school has a parent-teacher conference every nine weeks to inform the parents how their children are doing in class, whether they are…

characteristics of effective teaching explain the effectiveness of these parts? I believe the most effective parts of the lesson was when the students would work together to compare and contrast arctic animals as a whole group. This allowed the students to feed off of each other’s answers and notice other similarities or differences between the two animals. This also allowed me to see which students were actively engaged with the lesson and which students were struggling with the concept.…