What are some effective classroom management strategies to use with elementary age students? What is your personal classroom management philosophy? Also, are there any good websites that address this topic? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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#1 by silmoore7 on June 18th, 2010
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Classroom strategies are many and varied. Classroom strategies are a reflection of your personality and teaching style. So the first thing you need to figure out is what kind of classroom do you want and what strategies would be easily implemented and sustained by you?
I am an organizational freak and I want mutual respect. My classroom slogan is, “what goes around, comes around: don’t do anything to others that you don’t want done to you” This slogan spans the top of my dry erase board. My students do not interrupt me when I am teaching and I don’t interrupt them when they are speaking. We face each other and make eye contact when we are speaking.
My classroom is organized. Desk are well spaced, materials are accessible but out of the way, and there is a place for everything and everything is in its place i.e., homework box, corrected work, finished work, work in progress.
A giant jar to be filled with handful of pebbles whenever my students deserve to be rewarded as a class stands prominantly on my desk. Rewards are given for:
100% homework per week
A clean classroom at the end of the day
Compliments received from other teachers
Lunch room compliments
In addition, I use clapping to gain the attention of my students rather than raising my voice. I clap when I need to gain or refocus my students, sometimes I must continue to clap for a short while until all students are looking at me and quiet. I also use the clapping strategy to signal a change in activity such as moving from english to math…I normally accompany the clapping with…Please transition to math (my students have been trained to place unfinished work in a pile in their desks so that they can pack this up for home at the end of the day. In addition, in the halls of the school, our goal is to remain as quiet as mice (clapping does not work) so, I raise my hand with the thumb and the index finger touching to signify ’0-level’ noise. Every now and then I will reward my students for their hall silence with pebbles in the jar.
See this sites for more information:
http://drwilliampmartin.tripod.com/classm.html
http://www.afcec.org/tipsforteachers/tips_c4.html
Good luck.