Classroom management Platform
I believe that a cooperative learning environment is the most effective setting in order for my students to reach their full potential. Classroom management should be a collaborative effort in which students, parents, and myself work together to promote a sense of unity and teamwork. The learning process needs everyone's involvement in order for improvements to be made and ultimately for success to be achieved.
I believe that a cooperative learning environment is the most effective setting in order for my students to reach their full potential. Classroom management should be a collaborative effort in which students, parents, and myself work together to promote a sense of unity and teamwork. The learning process needs everyone's involvement in order for improvements to be made and ultimately for success to be achieved.
Through my experiences, I've become a big fan of Linda Albert and my goal while teaching is to have my students reach the 3 C's, which she developed. I want my students to see themselves as capable, be connected with others, and be contributing members of my class. In order to meet student's needs, teachers need to make students feel apart of the class. To achieve the 3 C's, I will start every morning off with a morning meeting, which will allow my students to become connected with one another and each will contribute during morning meetings. As a teacher, I want my students to want to come to my classroom and learn. It's important to me that they see themselves as capable human beings, who can become anything they want to be when they grow up. I agree with Linda Albert when she says, "making mistakes is okay" (72). I want my students to know that we all make mistakes and learning from them is how we become better students. Through teaching, I want them to see that I'm human and even the teacher makes mistakes and doesn't know all the answers.
Once the 3 C's are achieved, students will be willing to work in groups and want to collaborate because they feel capable, connected, and want to contribute. I believe we learn best from each other and there will be a lot of group work in my classroom because I value collaborative learning. By working with others, students will be able to expand on their point of view because they are learning to see where other students are coming from with their thought process.
Almost all of my beliefs that I've accumulated over this semester are similar with the beliefs from Linda Albert's article on Cooperative Discipline. Albert suggests creating a classroom code of conduct that establishes how everyone should behave and interact, including the teacher. I love the idea that Albert has provided because I believe the word "rules" gives students the impression that the teacher controls the students. That will not be the case in my classroom. I want my classroom to feel like a community, which means my students will be able to discuss with me what behaviors are appropriate and which are not. According to Albert, "The purpose is to help students develop the judgement and understanding needed for evaluating their own behavior choices and for accepting responsibility for all their behaviors all the time" (77).
When misbehaviors occur, I would ask my student simply if they feel they are doing the right thing and if the student disagrees, Albert says to either have a student-teacher conference or have an in class meeting. I disagree with both ways of solving this problem. I would simply ask why the student disagrees and work the situation out right there. After the student and I agree upon whether they were or were not doing the right thing, I would have them write a reflective paper on the situation. I like this idea because my goal would be for my students to self evaluate and self-monitor
I believe that a cooperative learning environment is the most effective setting in order for my students to reach their full potential. Classroom management should be a collaborative effort in which students, parents, and myself work together to promote a sense of unity and teamwork. The learning process needs everyone's involvement in order for improvements to be made and ultimately for success to be achieved.
Through my experiences, I've become a big fan of Linda Albert and my goal while teaching is to have my students reach the 3 C's, which she developed. I want my students to see themselves as capable, be connected with others, and be contributing members of my class. In order to meet student's needs, teachers need to make students feel apart of the class. To achieve the 3 C's, I will start every morning off with a morning meeting, which will allow my students to become connected with one another and each will contribute during morning meetings. As a teacher, I want my students to want to come to my classroom and learn. It's important to me that they see themselves as capable human beings, who can become anything they want to be when they grow up. I agree with Linda Albert when she says, "making mistakes is okay" (72). I want my students to know that we all make mistakes and learning from them is how we become better students. Through teaching, I want them to see that I'm human and even the teacher makes mistakes and doesn't know all the answers.
Once the 3 C's are achieved, students will be willing to work in groups and want to collaborate because they feel capable, connected, and want to contribute. I believe we learn best from each other and there will be a lot of group work in my classroom because I value collaborative learning. By working with others, students will be able to expand on their point of view because they are learning to see where other students are coming from with their thought process.
Almost all of my beliefs that I've accumulated over this semester are similar with the beliefs from Linda Albert's article on Cooperative Discipline. Albert suggests creating a classroom code of conduct that establishes how everyone should behave and interact, including the teacher. I love the idea that Albert has provided because I believe the word "rules" gives students the impression that the teacher controls the students. That will not be the case in my classroom. I want my classroom to feel like a community, which means my students will be able to discuss with me what behaviors are appropriate and which are not. According to Albert, "The purpose is to help students develop the judgement and understanding needed for evaluating their own behavior choices and for accepting responsibility for all their behaviors all the time" (77).
When misbehaviors occur, I would ask my student simply if they feel they are doing the right thing and if the student disagrees, Albert says to either have a student-teacher conference or have an in class meeting. I disagree with both ways of solving this problem. I would simply ask why the student disagrees and work the situation out right there. After the student and I agree upon whether they were or were not doing the right thing, I would have them write a reflective paper on the situation. I like this idea because my goal would be for my students to self evaluate and self-monitor