CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT

1. Describe how you will deal with different cultures in your classroom?

Good teachers are always sensitive to their students’ cultural backgrounds. They respect
students languages, customs, traditions, and beliefs. They never make fun of students who are
different but rather celebrate these new opportunities for enriching the learning experiences of
all students. Reading books about people from different cultures, and exposing students to the
beliefs and ways of immigrants from various parts of the world can be some of the most
effective ways of helping students understand and appreciate the multicultural world we live in.

2. Describe how you will make your classroom and the students comfortable?

Students need to know that a classroom is their place, not just the teachers place into which
they have been temporarily invited. If students feel that they belong in that classroom they are
more likely to participate and engage in the discussion. My classroom should be a place that
value each and every student. I will provide plenty of spaces to display my students outputs.
And also it should be conducive to learning.

3. Describe an Ideal classroom?

In my ideal classroom I believe that for learning to be effective and meaningful, students
should be provided with opportunities to use and apply knowledge in practical situations.

4. To establish a positive classroom environment, share what you will do the first few days of
school?

Some of the things I would do would include 1. Meeting and greeting my students. 2. I want
to establish a seating pattern. I want to assign them alphabetically so I can learn their names
quicker. 3. I would want to talk briefly about myself, sharing with students my own education. 4.
I’d want to take attendance each day. 5. I would also share an initial set of rules and classroom
expectation and invite them to help establish additional classroom rules together with the
consequences.

5. Talk about the physical attributes of a classroom?

 I know that effective teaching depends on environment factors just as much as on
psychological, social and personal factors. The way I lay out my classroom and the ways my
students perceive that classroom will have a major impact on their level of comfort, their
willingness to participate in learning activities and most important their behavior. I want the
classroom design to send a very powerful message to students, I want them to think, “This is a
comfortable place that supports my needs in which I feel secure and respected. I enjoy being
here’’. I realize that where students learn is just as important as what student learn. In short,
what I put into my classroom is as significant as what I put into every lesson.

6. Talk about Time management

For me good time management is all about transitions, those times during the day when I
move from one activity to the next. But in order for those transitions to be effective they need to
be taught. For example, I would let students know when an activity will end. I’d be sure my
lessons had clear beginnings and endings. Actively involving students in time management
procedures helps to achieve objectives in that particular lesson.