Classroom Management

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Classroom management, expectation, and routine are the basis to a healthy learning

environment within the classroom. As an educator, you must show your students and explain to

them the expectations within the classroom. These expectations must be volume level throughout

the day, bathroom behavior as well as usage, and expectations during work times. In my

classroom, I believe classroom management should be based on respect for the curriculum

and the class. I would like to have a management style of students working a job during their

activities. I would like to remind them of their “jobs” to put them back on track if students are

not focused on their work or behaving appropriately.

Engagement in the classroom allows for a more entertaining environment. Students who are

engaged in the curriculum with not just their attention but hands on as well, are given an

opportunity to learn with different strategies to reinforce. I want to manage my classroom with a

mix of large group instruction and student interaction. This management style will allow students

to be engaged using their bodies for breaking down sounds, numbers, etc, to learn the skill.

To establish procedures, routines, and behavior expectations, constant reminding and

prompting will need to be given within the first month of school. Before students even enter the

classroom, a poster can be put outside the door with a small checklist of “Being prepared” so

before students enter the room they see they will need their homework, binder, notebook, and

notes. As students are in the classroom throughout the day explicit details will need to be used to

show students how they are to handle technology or transition between activities. These

procedures cannot be done all at once while students are sitting down. The expectations must be

established before every activity and transition until students understand and are a part of the

given routine.
Classroom management strategies may work well for a large group of students but specific

management techniques may need to be changed to meet the diverse needs of students. There

may be students in the class who are not affected by a color behavior chart but are motivated

through other motives. A student may not want to disappoint authority figures so to manage a

behavior individual conversation may need to happen to discuss how the behavior affects that

relationship. Other students may need digital monitoring due to AAC devices and motivating

factors. Class Dojo is a great tool to use technology to monitor behavior and keep families

informed on their child within the classroom. This tool can show parents what students are

working on as well as their positive and negative behaviors within the classroom.

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