In his book The First Days of School, by Harry Wong this renkowned educational expert discusses how important it is to establish rules and procedures from day one in the classroom. View the DVD in the Kauchak book and see how a middle school teacher conducts this with students. What existing educational philosophy is this teacher practicing?
After reading Chapter 11 Creating Productive Learning Environments check out one or more of the following websites. Share something interesting you have discovered about creating environments that are conducive to learning.
caringhttp://www.caringteachers.com/
classroommanagement
http://education.indiana.edu/cas/tt/v1i2/what.html
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/drugfree/sa2lk9.htm
http://www.shpm.com/articles/child_behavior/behavman4.html
http://www.honorlevel.com/techniques.html
http://7-12educators.miningco.com/msub49.htm
classroom organization
http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/futureteachers/classroom_organization.htm
withitness
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/leap/aee535/Management.ppthttp://www.aaeteachers.org/newsletters/aprilmaynews.pdf
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I think that this teacher is using essentialism. She is telling students the procedures and requirements for her class. She also is making them write down the rules, to be quizzed on the next day. She uses a lot of "no"s and "do not"s in her rules. She seems like a strict teacher. She uses points for rewards, which is also a characteristic of essentialism. I like how the students start fresh with points each day, no matter how the previous days were. I also like how she did an icebreaker activity.
ReplyDeleteI looked at the Scholastic classroom management site. Something interesting I learned is that you should create both brightly and dimly lit areas in the classroom, because some children do well in bright light, and some children do better in dim light. It suggests to put hyperactive children in dimmer light and listless children in brighter light. Temperature preferences are also important for children. We should allow students to wear coats or sweatshirts if they're too cold, because we know that if the temperature is too cold, learning is much more difficult.
It appears that this teacher is using an essentialism approach to teaching. The learning environment appears to be highly structured, and the teacher delivers a clear understanding of what is to be expected in her classroom by going over the rules and quizzing the students on them the next day.
ReplyDeleteI viewed the website http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/drugfree/sa2lk9.htm
This website gave helpful hints of how to effectively deal with conflicts that arise in the classroom. Some of the suggestions are:
Do not raise your voice.
Try to remain calm and rational.
Do not touch an agitated or angry student.
Try to keep the student seated.
Be reassuring to the student as well as the rest of the class.
Explain the importance of protecting every student's right to learn. Talk about options for resolving the conflict.
Send another student for help. The student should be told to go to the nearest office to summon assistance from the administration.
After the incident is over, immediately document everything that happened. The report should be submitted to the administration. You also should keep a copy in case of a future conference with parents or school administration regarding the incident.
I feel that these are all great suggestions, especially the first couple of them because raising your voice will just create a more massive amount of chaos in the classroom, and if the teacher is remaining calm, the students have a better chance at remaining calm as well.
The teacher was using an essentialist style of teaching. She lectured while the class copied down the rules. The classroom environment was high-control, with students having to raise their hands to speak as consistent with essentialism. The activity at the end was a nice break from the lecture and a way for the students to meet each other.
ReplyDeleteI read the Self Help Magazine site with the article on Effectively Managing Your Child's Behavior. I learned that there are 3 key points in dealing with children's behavior:
1. Be a positive source, consider child's
views
2. Clearly explain rules and expectations
3. Be consistent with rewards/punishments
Rewards are more effective than punishments.
I also checked out the site with the Disciplinary Strategies for Teachers. I realized that it is helpful to be prepared in advance for a problem. It is useful to have a plan or strategy in mind for difficult situations. I think by having pre-planned steps to take, it helps a problem to be handled more smoothly and effectively.
The teacher in the movie is an essentialist. She is a "sage on stage". I liked how she rewarded and punished the class as a whole. She set the pace of a strict classroom. She lectured a lot and it was evident that she had an essentialist teaching philosophy.
ReplyDeleteI read about classroom management in aaeteachers.org. I found this very interesting on how to help Student Achievement.
Time Factors Related to Student Achievement:
Research has shown the following factors to be positively related to increases in student achievement:
Well established classroom rules and procedures
Teacher as a time-on-task model (teacher does not waste any time)
Starting on time
Close monitoring of behavior and performance
Clear and concise directions
Appropriate questioning techniques
Research has shown the following factors to be negatively related to increases in student achievement:
Unprepared students
Delay of response due to disruptions
Too much time spent on non-academic activities
Tardiness
External distractions (noise in the hall, intercom, visitors at the classroom door, etc.)
The teacher in the video appears to have an essentialist view. She seems to very strict and at high control of her classroom. This strict control, her given lecture and quizzes as well as her expectations for her classroom are some examples of her belief in essentialism.
ReplyDeleteI read over the powerpoint on classroom management.
Some things I learned are:
1) Classroom management and discipline are not the same thing. And that discipline is a subset of classroom management.
2)The three different terms of time: Instructional time, Time on task, and Academic Learning time
3)Activitives, feedback, rules and discipline, starting on time are all essential in student achievement
4)Effective teachers are withitness, overlapping and signal continuity
Wow, it is amazing how much you learned from the websites. Becky what you discovered about lighting in the classroom is so interesting. It makes sense to me about hyperactive children doing better in dimly lit environments as well as listless children doing better in brighter lights. This could have an impact on how you would arrange your room.
ReplyDeleteLove what Ashley learned about resolving conflict in the classroom. It is so important to remain poised and calm with an agitated student.
Krissy's information is also very important for us to remember as teachers that we are the one who is to be the positive role model for students. It is the teacher who sets the tone of the classroom. I have witnessed polite, caring teachers who have polite caring students and unfortunately I have also observed the opposite.
David's comment about increasing student achievement is something we should all memorize because that is what it is all about. Our jobs are to see to it that students reach their potential and that can only be done by the choices we make in the classroom.
Britney you bring up the term withitness. Withitness can be defined as teachers having eyes in the back of their heads. These are teachers who are aware of everything that goes on in the classroom and are proactive about it. Jacob Kounin conducted a very big research study on effective vs. ineffective teachers and he discovered that teachers who were effective were very good at withitness.
I also believe the the teacher in the video used essentialism. She gave a particular set on instrustions and made it clear what she was looking for from the students. She uses high control in her classroom and made the children raise their hands to participate. To me, this obviously displays essentialism.
ReplyDeleteI chose the article on classroom organization from scholastic.com.
1) One thing that I found interesting was the fact that it said to set up different areas with some being well lit and other being more dim. Some students learn better based on the amount of light in their learning environment. This is something that I would not have every thought about.
2)Another thing that I think is a good idea is letting the students know that they need to dress accordingly in a classroom. If they tend to be cold more often, it is a good idea for those students to layer. this is something our professor told us before the first day on class. I thought that was a great idea since I am ALWAYS cold!
3) Another good idea was to establish informal furnisher arrangements. This article claims that hard chairs and desks are not always the best learning stiuation for students.
I feel that this teacher used an ssentialism teaching style. She stands and tells the students the procedures and requirements and the students sit, listen, and take notes. The next day she may test the students over that material. She is ver negative in her rules. She reminds me of my third grade teacher, strict.
ReplyDeleteUsing points for rewards, like she does, is a characteristic of essentialism.
I read an article on effectivly managing a childs behavior that states, "If adults are talking to a child while she or he is in Time Out, the adult's attention is actually rewarding the child!" I guess that I felt this was important because no matter what age group you are teaching there is going to be problem children and there will be some type of consequence.
I worked at the daycare for two years and when reading through this section everything started to make sense to me. Children who are put in timeout by there peers don't care how long they stand there as long as they get some type of attention even if it is getting in more trouble. The focus is on that particular child, and now the child has won. To maximize the effectiveness of this procedure, select a location for the Time Out that is removed from family activity and other interesting items clearly away from everyone.
This teacher has an essentialism approach to teaching her classroom. She had a very structured agenda and had the rules planned out and it seemed like there wasn’t very much flexibility. I found her to be very strict in what the kids had on their desk because as she was walking around she would tap their binder and they were to put it under their desk. I did like her final “get to know you” activity because she let her students mingle but she still had a lot of control of the classroom.
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I viewed the Classroom Management for Teaching Agriculture in Secondary Schools Power Point. It was very interesting to see the statistics on the pie chart about the use of time. The average classroom teacher spends 50% of the class time monitoring, 15% off task, 20% organizing, and only 15% during active instruction. This is really shocking but is believable because it is very easy to get distracted or off task when teaching. There is one more pie chart and it shows how time should be managed. This roughly shows 50% active instruction, 35% monitoring, 5% off task, and 20% organizing. It is amazing when you look and compare the amount of time on task.
This teacher practiced essentialism. She was clear on what was expected of the students. She quizzed them on the rules to make sure that everyone was on the same page about how to act in a classroom. This teacher demonstrates a high control classroom.
ReplyDeleteI read the Self Help site, effectively managing your childs behavior. I liked this article because I felt like it was child based. For instance, thinking of the childs views or as they say walking in his shoes is important because I dont want children in my classroom to think that I'm the authority and what they say doesn't matter. How can they develop problem solving skills if they are only told the rules and aren't allowed to react. You can clearly explain the rules and expectations but in my class I would prefer that the children help me in making the rules so that they understand them better and are more inclined to follow them.
I think she is more of a essentialist she had a high control of her class. Very strict on what she taught and lectured. I also liked they way she would reward or punish the whole class.
ReplyDeleteI visited the http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/futureteachers/classroom_organization.htm website about classroom organization and I never thought that the seating arrangements can make a difference in the way students learn.
She is very clear and kind of a tough cookie. The classroom seems to be structured and routines are in place. Don’t act up, sit and listen! Because of these factors I believe that this teacher is using the philosophy of essentialism.
ReplyDeleteSomething interesting that I found was in the effectively managing your child (part4) article. It says that communication is the key to effectively managing the children. It did leave out the most the two most effective form of punishment. The first is that of spanking, the second is that of threatening the child that you are going to spank them.
To me, the teacher was displaying essentialism. She was strict, and direct. She had a very structured classroom with not a lot of wiggle room. She was kind of intimidating and I don't think I would have liked having her as a teacher.
ReplyDeleteI found it interesting (at http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/article/child-punishment) that restricting privileges on kids was considered an effective punishments. I can definitly agree with this from experience. When I was little I would get a beanie baby taken away, when I was fifteen I got my cell phone taken away (and it was hell), and when I was in high school I would get driving pivileges taken away. Knowing that these punishments would be the outcome if I messed up really made me think twice.