Interesting: Importance of making your class fun
By Jennifer Grenville
EDI 600 Psychological Foundation of Education
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
April 14, 2009
As a disciplinarian today’s lesson in my EDI class was a sobering reminder of the enormous role and responsibilities that teachers have not only to teach subjects matters, but also to address student’s behavior in the classroom, without being bias or judgmental. Our class on student’s behavior was very edifying. Prof. Dengting did an excellent job of engaging the class and tonight was extra special. Not only did we have the opportunity to share our opinions, but we were able to demonstrate them too. I think the highlight of the evening was our presentations on the Theater of Behavior Management.
Student’s participation is encouraged in each class session by our Prof. and today was no different. We were given the opportunity to express our views on several, subjects related to students behavior , our discussions were broad base each of us was given a slip of paper with a question on students behavior .
My question was when dealing with student’s misbehavior; teachers should be strict and immediately apply the consequence with no exception. I disagreed with this statement mainly because the role of a teacher is not to be a judge, but he/she should analyze situations before coming to conclusions. Given the fact that some students are problematic, and will always find a reason to be disruptive, it is also equally important for the teacher to make wise discussion. Get to the root cause of a student behavior, and allow for some form of flexibility. Many of my peers shared their opinions also, since I am not in the classroom day to day, I was especially glad to hear from some of my peers, who are constantly in the classroom and their methods of dealing with behavioral problems.
One thing I learned from this aspect of the lesson was, if you set ground rules for the classroom, they should be maintained, however you should also allow room for flexibility and as such you will most likely have less behavior problem.
To further enhance our learning we were also shown a clip, base on one teacher’s complete failure to maintain control of her classroom, needless to say because of the
nature of the clip, everything about the teacher’s approached to her class was negative. Her methods of presenting her lesson in this case “reading” was totally unacceptable, students, were moving furniture around, and in short being very disruptive. After several attempt of trying to control the class she did two things that were very distasteful assigning a lengthy essay for all students including the ones who were not misbehaving.
When that method was unsuccessful, she walked away from her class. Thanks Prof. for sharing this with us. A perfect example of a teacher who has lost complete control of her classroom.
Theater of behavior management, I really enjoyed this aspect of our lesson, we were divided into several groups each, group was asked to present a lesson on some form of student’s behavior in the classroom, and needless to say it was enjoyable. I was especially impressed with the presentation made by my peers who presented their aspect of two a kindergarten students fighting over a pencil and the teacher inability to console one of the students who were crying uncontrollably. This presentation was so real so effortless it was almost as if you were in an actually classroom confronting the situation.
In conclusion I must say amongst all the fun, it is also equally important to remember that as teachers we do face real problems in the classroom, how we handle these situations will determine who we are as teachers and our capabilities of managing student in our classroom. Pro. Dengting, this was a very excellent topic and again thanks for sharing you many talents with us. I WAS VERY MOTIVATED BY THIS LESSON.
Long Island University, C. W. Post
April 14, 2009
As a disciplinarian today’s lesson in my EDI class was a sobering reminder of the enormous role and responsibilities that teachers have not only to teach subjects matters, but also to address student’s behavior in the classroom, without being bias or judgmental. Our class on student’s behavior was very edifying. Prof. Dengting did an excellent job of engaging the class and tonight was extra special. Not only did we have the opportunity to share our opinions, but we were able to demonstrate them too. I think the highlight of the evening was our presentations on the Theater of Behavior Management.
Student’s participation is encouraged in each class session by our Prof. and today was no different. We were given the opportunity to express our views on several, subjects related to students behavior , our discussions were broad base each of us was given a slip of paper with a question on students behavior .
My question was when dealing with student’s misbehavior; teachers should be strict and immediately apply the consequence with no exception. I disagreed with this statement mainly because the role of a teacher is not to be a judge, but he/she should analyze situations before coming to conclusions. Given the fact that some students are problematic, and will always find a reason to be disruptive, it is also equally important for the teacher to make wise discussion. Get to the root cause of a student behavior, and allow for some form of flexibility. Many of my peers shared their opinions also, since I am not in the classroom day to day, I was especially glad to hear from some of my peers, who are constantly in the classroom and their methods of dealing with behavioral problems.
One thing I learned from this aspect of the lesson was, if you set ground rules for the classroom, they should be maintained, however you should also allow room for flexibility and as such you will most likely have less behavior problem.
To further enhance our learning we were also shown a clip, base on one teacher’s complete failure to maintain control of her classroom, needless to say because of the
nature of the clip, everything about the teacher’s approached to her class was negative. Her methods of presenting her lesson in this case “reading” was totally unacceptable, students, were moving furniture around, and in short being very disruptive. After several attempt of trying to control the class she did two things that were very distasteful assigning a lengthy essay for all students including the ones who were not misbehaving.
When that method was unsuccessful, she walked away from her class. Thanks Prof. for sharing this with us. A perfect example of a teacher who has lost complete control of her classroom.
Theater of behavior management, I really enjoyed this aspect of our lesson, we were divided into several groups each, group was asked to present a lesson on some form of student’s behavior in the classroom, and needless to say it was enjoyable. I was especially impressed with the presentation made by my peers who presented their aspect of two a kindergarten students fighting over a pencil and the teacher inability to console one of the students who were crying uncontrollably. This presentation was so real so effortless it was almost as if you were in an actually classroom confronting the situation.
In conclusion I must say amongst all the fun, it is also equally important to remember that as teachers we do face real problems in the classroom, how we handle these situations will determine who we are as teachers and our capabilities of managing student in our classroom. Pro. Dengting, this was a very excellent topic and again thanks for sharing you many talents with us. I WAS VERY MOTIVATED BY THIS LESSON.
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