Classroom Management

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Classroom Management

• Scotty Jiménez
• EDSE 500

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Definition

• Classroom management is creating a positive
  environment within the classroom that encourages
  learning and discipline on the part of the
  students and allows the teacher to effectively
  maintain that environment through motivation,
  disciplinary procedures, and positive
  reinforcement.

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Discipline and Classroom Management Philosophy

• The classroom is a game. Students are always
  trying to figure out ways to get the teacher.
  As long as you 1) stay above the students (ie,
  maintain authority, knowledge, and poise) and 2)
  do not let it show that you are affected if and
  when the students are ahead (being inconsistent
  with classroom management rules), control of the
  classroom can be managed and contained throughout
  the year.

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Positive Learning Environment

• My idea of a positive learning environment is one
  in which students want to learn the content and
  the teacher makes a positive impact on the
  students through motivation and encouraging
  individuals.

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Positive Learning Environment(revised)

• Motivation and encouraging still stands, but one
  can safely assume that students DO NOT want to
  learn the material. Thus, teachers responsibility
  to make it interesting.

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Rules

1. Be in your assigned seat, ready to work when the
   bell rings.
2. Follow instructions the first time given.
3. Stay on task.
4. Keep body faced forward, with all body parts and
   belongings in personal desk space.
5. Respect the learning environment

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Rules Revised

• 4th block
• Raise your hand and wait for permission to speak.
• Raise your hand and wait for permission to leave
  your desk.
• Keep your body and all body parts within your own
  desk area.
• Extreme infractions result in write up.
• Every other block
• -I write you up at the point I consider

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Consequences

1. Warning
2. Copy Spanish paragraph
3. Detention
4. Office Referral

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Consequences revised

1. Warning (name on board)
2. 1 day afterschool detention (check)
3. 2 days (2 checks)
4. Write up (still serve detentions...?)

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Rewards

1. REAL/GENUINE verbal praise
2. Marble jar or Harry Potter points?
3. Student of the week, dismissal

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Rewards revised

• Pizza party for no cut slips coming back from
  lunch.
• Want to do tickets at next school

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Procedures

• Eyes on me when I am talking, always answer
  questions with some sort of response (verbal or
  visual)
• Two bathroom passes per nine weeks, sign out of
  bathroom book. Unused passes count for extra
  credit.
• Once you cross the threshold into my classroom,
  you have entered my space and my time. While in
  my classroom, you will abide to my rules and
  follow my time outline.

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Procedures cont.

• 4. Notebook will contain 5 sections Do Now,
  Vocabulary, Grammar, Conjugations, and Cultural
  Studies. Do Now hand in and Notebook check each
  Friday.
• 5. I am not a Spanish dictionary. Use
  dictionaries to look up words on your own.
  Spanish participation required for participation
  grade.

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Procedures

• -eyes on me, impossible
• 3 bathroom passes per 9weeks, bathroom book was
  CLUTCH
• Threshold door was good
• Notebook, more or less most students
• Didnt get Spanish dictionaries

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Parental Contact

• I want to contact each parent within 2 weeks of
  classes beginning. Discuss aspect of learning a
  new language and that I am here for any questions
  regarding my class. Because my class is not
  required to graduate, I do not plan on any
  problematic encounters with parents regarding
  grades However, I realize that parental contacts
  are a vital part in maintaining good classroom
  management and eliminating any problems with
  students that might deter other students who want
  to learn the language to do so.

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Parental Contact cont.

• Would like to organize some kind of culture
  events in which parents are invited to join
  students for Mexican dinner at local restaurant.

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Parental contact

• Called all parents within first 2 weeks of
  classes I predicted to be trouble (my Spanish I
  classes)
• Student folders, color coded
• -parent contact sheet
• -discipline
• - DOCUMENT EVERYTHING
• Two parent chaperones