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Classroom Management Plan
When developing classroom plans and teaching methods, many teachers
use collaborative learning techniques. This generally involves
intergroup learning and the use of verbal interaction. Where the
teacher is not just teaching, rather giving the students an
opportunity to learn through interpersonal interaction. Some use
peer groups for classroom management, thereby creating more time for
personal interaction with individual students. Others use this
teaching strategy to enhance students' motivation by making class
work more "fun." Still others believe that collaborative learning
can provide valuable opportunities for students to work together
across ethnic and gender lines, thereby facilitating friendships.
All of these reasons for the use of collaborative group work are
worthy goals in classroom instruction. Seldom, however, is
conceptual learning the primary goal behind the use of collaborative
group techniques.
Following is a classroom plan that enables effective classroom
management of time, and organization of activities for children.
Prepare a schedule that allows time for learning as well fun and
activities. Rearrange the daily schedule, go outside to read, give
clipboards to students and go outside to draw, have a theme day. For
instance for every first Monday of the Month, students can come
dressed in the colors of the rainbow, or for older students, they
come dressed creatively in some historical attire and bring along
something that they have that relates to that attire. Discussing
these makes a good start for the day. These are of course just ideas
and leave room for the teachers’ ingenuity. Begin the day with bell
work, which is an introductory task or activity that should get them
into the learning mode. From then on the lesson plan can be followed
with regular fun intervals and breaks.
Ask the students to write once or
twice a week: What did you learn today? for instance, and also take
them outside on the school grounds and ask them to study something
specific, be it the actions of a gardener, a butterfly or even the
different kinds of flowers in the garden. Then ask them to write
about them. This provides for the leisure and fun time activities.
When passing out tests or worksheets or notices, write the names of
absent students on the papers left. When students arrive to begin
the day, have them remove everything that will be needed during the
day. Have a rule: NO one may get into a backpack during the day.
Write a red M in the top right corner on all Master copies. This
will distinguish the Master from a copy very easily and prevent
accidentally passing out the master to a student. Always spend the
last few minutes of the day and review: Hopefully, when parents ask
about the day, students will have an answer other than "Nothing!"
In addition in particular classroom activities can be assigned to
different students individually or in pairs. For instance someone
can be made the monitor, to clean the blackboard, someone can be the
chair stacker, someone can be the timekeeper etc. This way the small
tasks that need to be completed through the class are managed by the
students enabling them to take responsibility.
One key here that adheres to the theories on classroom management by
Howard Glasser and Dreiker, is that of collaborative and verbal
interaction learning. Throughout the class time students should be
involved with verbal interaction with the teacher. The day should be
planned such that it gives time and opportunity for all different
students to have a special moment. Some experts believe that every
student can have a focus week, where he/she gets a few minutes in
the beginning of every class to share his life with the students. It
not only aids in interpersonal learning, as well as linguistic
learning, but it also makes the students feel special.
Bibliography
Chizhik, Alexander W., Collaborative learning through high-level
verbal interaction: from theory to practice.. Vol. 72, The Clearing
House, 09-19-1998, pp 58(4).
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