IV. Classroom Routines and Procedures
1. Students coming in late or having to leave early: including bathroom use, nurses office … Students who are tardy will need a note from the office to enter class. Students will need a note from parents to take to office in the morning to be excused from class early. Students may use the restroom one at a time. Asking to go by raising a hand and giving the restroom sign then taking a pass and returning the pass when finished at the restroom. Students that go to the nurse will need to ask permission and take a nurse pass to his/her office and return with the pass when finished at the nurse. Moorish’s real discipline practices states, “rules are should be enforced consistently.” The rules for coming in late, leaving early, bathroom use, and nurse’s office use will be a part of the student’s daily routine. The will be expected to follow the proper procedures.
2. Volunteers in the classroom Volunteers in my classroom will be given a short expectation guideline at the beginning of the year. This guideline will be used throughout the year for new volunteers. The guidelines will include student conduct, my expectations of a volunteer, and praise for them volunteering and following the expectations. As situations arise when volunteers are needed additional expectations or changes in
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As a teacher I need to be held accountable for preparing my students to learn the curriculum that is aligned with the standards. Assessment is an ongoing process. I will have a note pad in my pocket to constantly check for understanding. Then I will record that information on a daily basis. I will give formal and informal evaluations after completion of every assignment throughout the year. Emotions are the gatekeepers to students learning a phase taught in class. This is how a teacher will get a student to perform well on any
During my High School years, I lived in a boarding school which helped shape students to act responsibly when we were out on excursions, debates and sports activities with other schools. I was never the early bird, when I got enrolled into the boarding house. A matron was assigned to each dorm to get the students ready by six in the morning, everyday for school. She did blow a whistle every morning exactly by six a.m, which meant "get up". She did give us twenty minutes to take a shower, ten minutes to lay the bed, another ten minutes to get dressed, and then twenty minutes to get breakfast and join the morning assembly of what I dreaded. It was a structure that did help shape me for the future. In Junior high, I grumbled when getting out of bed each day, I also exceeded the time frame given and faced the consequences at the end of the day. It was hard to keep up. One day, I formed a group of students to join me in protesting against the hectic time frame
Caroline is my former college teacher, specialised in Personal and Professional Development in Health and Social Care. She tends to use her political knowledge as being a teacher to educate young people to reach their ambitions, acquire skills, and knowledge. These therefore empowered me describing her as a public intellectual. To fulfil her obligations, she teaches about theory and offer critique about students’ behaviour (Abascal-Hildebrand, 1999). She also teaches about unacceptable behaviour such as lateness and missing deadlines, as she believes could affect pupils learning and achievement. As a result, for those who frequently attend class late and miss deadlines are offer a practical direction for acting on the critique. By giving them, an action plan to improve their attendance and educational performance. Th...
We are all too familiar with that dreadful screech of the alarm clock in the morning but for high school students across America the rooster crows at a ridiculous hour. High school students groggily stumble out of bed only to underperform academically due to a severe lack of sleep. In my case, particularly, I had to be present in my first class promptly at 7:24 AM. For many in similar situations to myself this means waking up at 6 AM just to have time to get prepared for a treacherous day of school running on abysmal hours of sleep. Brookwood High School needs to reevaluate their schedules and push back the beginning of the school day no earlier than 8:30 AM.
As a pre service teacher undertaking the study of theoretical approaches of Teaching along with experience from practicum placements, I understand the importance of providing ongoing assessment for my students and for my own professional learning. As a graduate teacher I understand the need to demonstrate Australian professional Standards for Teachers standard five: Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning as a professional requirement (Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership [AITSL], 2014). My view is that learning and assessment are interlinked as a daily ongoing practice. I feel it
All assessments will be purposeful, and the goal of the assessment will be determined before the assessment is given. Assessment and evaluation will be ongoing throughout the year to provide reliable information. Assessments will also be authentic during the natural daily schedule. I will assess by creating portfolios, observing the children, and taking anecdotal notes. The assessments will allow me to measure students’ success and development. I will gather data from multiple sources to ensure that the data is reliable. I will maintain ethical behavior in all forms of assessment and evaluation. I will also reflect on my own teaching practices to better myself for my
Assessment is the biggest contributor to helping teachers determine what concepts or topics need to be taught or even skipped. “The purpose of all assessment is to provide teachers with the information to best inform their teaching and work with individual children, Eliason, C. et al. Assessments are related to the curriculum in the fact that it can change the teacher’s plan. Assessments show the teacher what students may or may not know and their strengths and weaknesses. If you noticed that most of your class struggled on a certain topic the you, the teacher, will not move forward, but will reteach the concept. You will not know what to teach your class without giving some form of assessment. Assessment is critical and highly important in the classroom and effects how lessons are taught and the sequence of your
The event that I attended for the interpreter observation requirement was an event that occurred in the classroom and took place in order to provide interpretation for a guest speaker, Richard McGann, who was Deaf and blind. The event was held at the University of Pittsburgh during the Intro to Interpreting American Sign Language-English class taught by Jessica Adams on Tuesday, November 10th at 5:30PM and the interpreted lecture took place in a typical classroom located on the third floor of the Cathedral of Learning. The classroom used for the guest lecture was the same room that the class meets at regularly, so there had been no special modifications made in order to accommodate the
School days starting later would help improve student attendance by a lot! For example, a copious amount of students oversleep which results in lateness to school. However, if school started at least one to two hours later, then the students perhaps will not be late, and as a result, they can...
The week of October 2nd through October 6th began with an ARD on Monday morning at 9:10 a.m. the meeting went for about an hour and the parents were concerned about some of the teachers who are not providing the accommodations according to the individual needs of the student. As a committee, we discussed some changes that needed to be recorded and the administrator assured that she would call in the teachers who were not adhering to these policies. I attended a faculty meeting where we discussed Title 1, the McKinney Vento Act, Leap Forward, CBA’s, flat panels, homecoming, red ribbon week, attendance policies, band achievement awards, duty, and technology. Ms. Menchaca spent some time explaining to the staff the importance of submitting attendance on time because she
In the 21st century, teachers experience many behavioral issues with students in the classroom and face challenges that are very difficult to resolve. School districts have different expectations about how students must behave during school and teachers have their own expectations about how students must behave in their classroom. Every educator has different classroom expectations and students must follow specific standards; therefore, the responsibility of the teacher is to discuss the standards with all students and make sure those expectations are clear. According to Jones and Jones (2016), teachers whose students made greater achievement gains were observed establishing rules and procedures, and carefully monitoring student’s work. In
This brings me to my first point, which is the student’s activity level or if the student is an early bird or night owl (Plotnik & Kouyoumdjian, 2013). Everyone knows most people have a difficulty to wake themselves up in the morning, even with the help of an alarm clock. I myself have formed the habit to set multiple alarms as I have a tendency to hit the snooze button and ends up waking up later than I should. For students who chose morning classes, it would help you a long mile if you are a morning person and are able to focus perfectly in the morning (Taylor, 2012). While morning classes have a great setback that often causes students to miss their breakfast, this does not seem to be a big problem nowadays because of the existence of protein bars and other light foods created for easy eating specifically for these cases.
Every teacher must have a set of classroom routines and procedures to maintain order in the classroom. When entering the classroom, students will enter in a quiet manner. They will sit at their assigned desk and have all material ready to begin on required work. Once the bell rings and the door is closed, students will be seated and working. Tardiness is unacceptable and if the student receives more than three unexcused tardies per nine weeks, a referral will be given to the office and a phone call will be made the parent or guardian. Also, students should not be more than three minutes late to class. This will result in an automatic referral to the office.
During the first day of school, a variety of different students enter the classroom. These students are excited and nervous, they have their parents by their sides who are observing the classroom walls and arrangement. From the minute the students enter the classroom, students are observing the classroom environment and notice the everything. Everything in the classroom needs to have a purpose, but provide a pleasant environment. When preparing and organizing the classrooms, teachers need to consider the different variables that impact the classroom. Classrooms can be disorganized if the walls are cluttered and have no meaning The organizations of the desks, the wall decorations, and the seating arrangements significantly impact the physical environments. Students are like sponges, they soak up everything that surrounds them. In the article A comparison of actual and preferred classroom environments as perceived by middle school students in the Journal of School Health stated “studies have shown that classroom environments are closely related to a number of aspects of student
Assessment is a tool used in the classroom every day. It is used to measure a student’s mastery of a skill or knowledge of a given subject. It is also what demonstrates to the teacher what the students have learned. Educators use that information to determine if they need to re-teach to a specific student, group, or the entire class. They can also use that information to determine the rate of their teaching. Assessments are important because, as teachers, we need to know what difficulties our students have and what needs to be refined for them. While I do believe in assessment and feel that it is one of the key components of teaching, I am more concerned with a child’s process of learning rather than the overall product that comes from it. This is where grades come in for me. Grades determine the students’ level of mastery on a subject, nothing more. Grades should not be the exclusive indicators that a student has learned the information that is presented to them. It is the things a student learns along the way that truly matter and sometimes cannot be measured.
As I reflect on my past assessment process, I realized how much my assessments have changed over the years. In my early years, I used tests for informational recall as my assessments. I felt these were appropriate guidelines in which I needed to follow in order to substantiate a student’s grade. Every assignment or tests was given a point value and then based on the amount of points, a grade was given. Every student’s assessment was exactly the same, and the assessments did not contain any subjectivity. I felt confident in giving the grade based on a valid point system. However reflecting back, I see that I did not include any performance-based assessments or individual learning styles in my early assessment. I also did not take into consideration the individual needs of my students. My assessment approach was awful. I am embarrassed that I use to assess students in this manner.