Classroom management

Here I’m going to talk about classroom management, and first I’m going to clarify that this is what we understand the teachers as a way of organizing the class, rules of discipline, techniques for get involved children and their attention.

Here I would like to talk about how the technique of action-reaction that was used long time ago it’s not useful. This means that for a disruptive action you have to apply immediately a punish. This is a way that I don’t really think that work. The main for succeed in this point is that teacher and children have like a contract, where the make their own rules and the result of braking one of the rules. So they are really conscious of what is well done and what has a bad result. Also with these it’s not as if you are the dictator of the class who order and punish, we have to start with the democracy but knowing that you are he teacher and in some point you have to be firm.

So imagine you have your class named x, where all of your students and you are part of that class which has specific norms, like a little city and where all of your children has a special job in the class all of them are useful and that they have to know it.

Moreover and know for high groups of primary is true that you have to be more serious sometimes but not for that you don’t have voice or vote.

So to end with this I need to say that when we make them participles or make them conscious about the rules, and then  when they make an action they will know what are going to be the consequences, if not and as is many times children are punish without knowing why and worst they will do it again because they don’t learn what was the problem.

Finally in the class management we can gave some jobs to each student so they are in charge of creating a nice class clime. For example I have work in year one (5-6 years old) that work in table teams that each day one of them is the in charge of creating the silence, other of tiding an special thing… and this way it works and you see nice results.

Moreover I want to say that as we punish bad behavior we have to award the good ones and compensate the children that we are hardworking, this way those children that use to go worst they motivate, and the others have the expectative of getting the reward or being mention something special or example the star of the week.

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