Effective Classroom Management

a sweet and gentle child, full of love and laughter. She typically enters the classroom with a sweet smile and sets off to choose a work in Practical Life or Sensorial. Tvisha is a keen observer and enjoys watching lessons given to her classmates. In circle, Tvisha listens intently and enjoys interacting with classmates. She loves to participate in Music and Spanish classes. She is very comfortable with the classroom environment, and feels empowered by her independence to choose work. She is a…

1.0 INTRODUCTION The educational system has evolved throughout the years with the involvement of technology, same goes with learning session in class. Nowadays, teachers utilized the use of technology to enhance students’ learning in class. Books, hand-outs, notes and discussion are examples of learning aids in class instead of teachers’ lectures. However, environment in the class changes as teachers began to use other learning aid such as online discussion, online quizzes and PowerPoint…

let drugs tie them down. The children came in and wrote in their morning journals about their long weekend. I thought this was a great idea for creative writing in the classroom and getting the children use to writing. Every day one of the students leads the classroom and picks activities for the day. They get to lead the classroom in the morning with the calendar on the Promethean board. The students state the day, month, year, and the weather outside for the day. Then the math behind the date…

Growing up I have always enjoyed writing, I view writing as the most effective way to tell your true feeling, because sometimes telling how you feel to someone that person can rebut or cut in to what you saying. Writing makes what you want to say come across exactly how you mean it and how you want it to come across In my current stage in life I do not like writing in any form not even texting. When I think about writing or have to do a writing assignment I get poignant memories and it just…

and keep up with class work. A popular device used in the classroom is the laptop. Students in the college level takes notes on their laptops to stay organized and to easily copy notes that are missed from other students and online. The concern is that laptops can be distracting or hinder learning. Martin Tallvid, Johan Lundin, Lars Svensson, and Berner Lindström, preformed a survey on one on one distractions with laptops in the classroom. They performed the study because there is an ever…

fair, this makes sense because today 's technology has a lot of qualities to aid classroom efficiency. However, these same devices and programs are also capable of harming the learning process. To be clear,…

When writing or coloring having a larger grip is beneficial for Eddies, and an easy adjustment. One struggle we still have in the classroom is use of scissors. This makes it hard for him when we do projects in the class room, or in the art room. While his peers can be independent, he occasionally requires help. I’m not sure if an occupational therapist is involved, but I feel this would…

bathroom. 4. Creating inclusive classroom environments is an important course theme. How do you interpret the term: "inclusive classroom environment" (What does it look like, feel like? What are students doing in inclusive classrooms environments? What role does the teacher play in creating inclusive classroom environments?) I would describe an inclusive classroom environment as one that makes every child feel involved and important. This is not a classroom or a teacher that picks on a…

In the book, 5 practices orchestrating productive mathematics discussion, it discusses five practices that will improve student-centered discussion (Smith & Stein, 2011). These six practices are anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, connecting, setting goals and selecting tasks. The first practice is anticipating. In the book, 5 practices orchestrating productive mathematics discussion, it states, “Anticipating requires that teachers do the problems as many ways as possible” (Smith &…

jobs I could image from a leadership perspective. Most people think of business’s and corporations when they think of management, but many forget that those guiding our youth everyday are just as engaged in leadership than any corporate executive. I’ve been able to view Mr. Koterba’s leadership from many different perspectives in my last 8 years of life, from a student in his classroom, to a runner in his running club and eventually cross country team, and even as a friend. The first think one…