Classroom Management

How will you manage your temper while teaching?

Watch the below videos and then write a response to this question.

Angry Teachers

Write briefly how you will deal with the following situations.

1. A student who is normally on task and participates actively, suddenly becomes withdrawn and sleeps in class. 

2. A student never turns in homework. You've called home and can never reach anyone. The student is failing your course and other courses. 

3. A group of students in your class often say inappropriate things under their breath and disrupt your learning environment by laughing loudly. The other students in the class begin to mimic these behaviors.

Classroom Management Plan

What will your classroom moto be?

What is your teaching philosophy?

What are your 5 rules? 

How did you decide on these rules? 

What will you do to enforce your rules? What will your consequences be for breaking rules? 

How will you make your students understand the importance of the rules and get them to buy into the rules?

Beginning to develop your Classroom Management Plan.


Cooperative Learning to Enhance Student Engagement

Choose one of the cooperative learning strategies from "Looking in Classrooms" and describe how you could utilize this strategy in a lesson.

Group Investigation
Jigsaw
Student Teams-Achievement Divisions
Jigsaw II
Think/Pair Share
Numbered Heads Together
Pens in the Middle
Group Interview

Write a procedure that details how students will participate in this cooperative learning strategy.

What are some other ways to increase engagement of students besides cooperative learning?