Reflective Essay On Classroom Management

1. Introduction

When teachers talk about the most difficult problem they experiences in their first years of teaching, they mention classroom management most often. A narrow view of classroom managements sees it primarily as discipline and management of student misbehaviour but successful teaching requires more than controlling student’s behaviour. Larrivee (2005) noted that “classroom management is a critical ingredient in the three-way mix of effective teaching strategies, which includes meaningful content, powerful teaching strategies, and an organizational structure to support productive learning.

That means that successful teachers employ strategies for establishing rules and procedures, organizing groups, monitoring a pacing classroom

Description of Classroom Management in TP School

Rules and procedures are of little value unless participants learn and accept them. This requires active teaching. My mentor Susie did a great job with this. She establish only a few rules and procedures, then taught them carefully to students and made them routine through their consistent use. She establishes clear rules and procedures, teach these rules and procedures to students and carefully orchestrate classroom activities during such unstable periods as the beginning and end of class and transitions.

a.) Map of the classroom

The following map will show you how the materials are organised and how the seating is arranged. To give you a brief overview I will explain you the current classroom situation. The 22 children are seated around 4 tables. The group size of one table is between 5 to 6 children. Which gives the teacher the opportunity to make small group activities or work with one group together while the other group tables work alone. The material is stored in cupboards between the two tables in the back as well as in cupboards at the right wall. Mrs Susie, asked the children to tidy up after they used the materials or during the tidy up time. To give the children support while tidying up is one of the resource cupboards colour coded so that the children can match the resource sticker to the shelf

Therefore is Mrs Susie using a program idea called Monster manners. This program consists out of the idea that a Monster has joined the class and does not know what appropriate behaviour is and therefore the children need to teach him the Monster manners. To bring the children closer to the Rules of the classroom my mentor introduced a story about a cute monster which was visiting their class and throws things, runs around creating chaos and nobody feels safe. This showed the pupils that nobody would feel safe and would have fun. Therefore the children had to tell the monster about the classroom and explained each other why they have rules and what the rules mean. This program is enforced through the Yellow and Red Card