Jasmine Vargas

Dr. Rogers

INDC 4360

May 5th, 2021

Classroom Management

Having an efficient classroom management system is one of the most

important ways to ensuring that your classroom is always under control and that

your students have an opportunity to receive a good education. One of the first

things my mentor teacher taught me about classroom management is that you

always want to start the year strong and as the students are following the rules and

learning, you can start letting down your guard slowly. After ten years of being an

educator, this has definitely worked for him and all the groups of students he has

taught before. I was very impressed to see that during the weeks that I was there,

he hardly ever had to call on any of his students’ attention. They always did what

was expected from them and never complained about anything.

My mentor teacher advised me that in the beginning of the school year, set

up your expectations very high and be very consistent with your expectations. He

stated that once you let down your guard as the school year progresses, your

students would not stop obeying the rules, because it would just be natural for them

to follow the rules by now. They will be so used to following your rules that you
would not have to be on top of them anymore, they would just obey them on their

own. I can honestly say that I experienced all of this in his classroom, and I notice

how he did not have to say one single rule or remind them about the expectations

anymore.

Another concept, though not the last one I am taking away from this

experience, is that creating relationships with your students is very vital for

classroom management. My mentor teacher had relationship with every single one

of his students and I admired the way that they respected him. The students knew

when was the right time to play with him and when was not the time to do so.

Because of the relationships my mentor teacher had created with his students, he

was able to talk to them like they were his friends and advised them on anything

they were not doing right. On one occasion one of his students had a lot of trash

inside his desk cubby and my mentor teacher in a respectful way told him to clear

out his desk. Once the student was done, my mentor teacher took the opportunity

to advise him on the importance of being clean and respecting school belongings. I

believe that if he did not have this relationship with his student, the student would

not had taken it as lightly as the student did because he simply just agreed with

what his teacher was saying.

Classroom management does not have to be a set of rules that you glue on

the walls of your classroom on the first day of school. I believe classroom
management is being consistent with your expectations from the beginning and

building relationships with your students.