Saturday, January 7, 2012
Chapter 4
This chapter was all about classroom management. It is important that expectations are clearly difined and that they are implemented from the beginning of the school year. Behavior managment is half the battle. If a teacher can not create a learning environment conducive for learning then it doesn't matter how much knowledge that teacher can impart. I attended a Harry Wong seminar at Bradley several years ago. He was quite entertaining but what he made quite clear is that expectations are clear and concise and that procedures need to be taught and retaught and practiced. I have stuck with this for the last six years and classroom management is one of my strongest suits.
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Kris: Rena, I have read several articles dealing with this topic by Harry Wong and I agree with what both he and you have to say. I think too often we try to prepare for punishments rather than trying to prevent them. Things will always go wrong in a classroom, but as teachers we can take steps to minimize those occurrences. Rules must be clear or students will not understand them properly, so we must always be trying to make our rules better, more efficient, and more concise. Do not confuse them with an abundance of rules, but make the ones we do use count.
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