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Febe Theodora - WA 1 - The Most Crucial Aspects in Classroom Management
Febe Theodora - WA 1 - The Most Crucial Aspects in Classroom Management
Febe Theodora
There has been many types of research that emphasize how impactful it is to create
a positive classroom environments to improve and enhance the learning quality and
different conclusions on what are the most important things to be implemented in the
strategies that are applied to achieve a positive learning environment. Teachers’ ability to
organize the classroom and apply treatments to respond to students’ behavior is very
important to determine the climate of the classroom. This is something to keep in mind,
especially for new teachers. Ingersoll and Smith stated that there are a number of researches
that classroom and behavior management skills are carrying weight on the persistence
of the teaching careers of the new teachers (2003). They also believe that disruptive
classroom behavior is a major reason why teachers leave the profession. Usually, new
teacher raises their concerns about the difficulty to find effective strategies to handle the
disruptive behavior in the classroom (Browers & Tomic, 2000). Therefore, this discussion
will look at the most crucial areas of teacher’s responsibility in classroom management.
1. Classroom Design
2. Rules
3. Discipline
4. Scheduling
5. Organization
6. Instructional Technique
7. Communication
According to Cini, communication is the most important aspect out of the 7. It is
crucial to have positive, consistent, and effective communication will every member of
educational activities. Without a positive communication line, a teacher would risk respect
from colleagues, students’ attention, and parent’s cooperation. Teachers are expected to
communications and pedagogy are actually intertwined (Petrie, 2011). Petrie later
explained that the students and teachers relationship actually is the foundation on which
definite communication is made. This relationship is what leads to effective
communication, and the communication leads to learning eagerness. So, the most
to establish a positive classroom environment by setting the 2 other most crucial areas of
instructional and learning strategies that can be used to adjust to the grade levels and
subject areas. New teachers, knowing their field and cases should be able to accommodate
a range of student differences from different backgrounds in different needs. This process
techniques, or teaching methods, depend on some factors such as the developmental level
of students, intent, and objectives of the teacher, materials, and environment including
time, physical setting, and resources (which are covered in the other 5 areas of
responsibility according to Cini (2017)). Therefore, one technique, one method cannot
accommodate all the cases at once According to Stephen Petrina (2007), there are four or
Petrina stated that having spent years in schools, teachers will recognize the strategy one
by one and will have a stronger tendency towards one or two models. So, new teachers
Organization. “Stay organized inside and out.” (Cini, 2017). When we hear the
word “organized” we might come up with other words such as: tidy, neat, clear, clean, and
Organization is more than just putting stuff in the right place, and maintaining the positions
of tables and chairs. Classroom physical setting is the first thing a student experiences
using their senses when they enter the room. Organization determines so much more. It is
important to keep a tidy classroom, utilize the space. It is important to put the students'
Applying these three most crucial aspects of classroom management will open the
door for new teachers to achieve the other 5 aspects that are no less important!
REFERENCES
Browers, A., & Tomic, W. (2000). A longitudinal study of teacher burnout and perceived
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Cini, S. (2021, 6 24). Seven Key Elements for Effective Classroom Management.
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Ingersoll, M., & Smith, M. (2003). The wrong solution to the teacher
Petrie, P. (2011). Communication skills for working with children and young People: