Atateiti's teaching Journal : My Reflection on Classroom Management

I had one of my lesson deliveries teaching year 7 Gold, and I implemented classroom managements in some of teaching strategies. It was a worthwhile lesson filled with engagement and activeness because classroom management really helped in managing the students to be well organized and pay attention during our lesson. I have never imagined the importance of classroom management in helping me in many ways which makes me really happy. It was a great journey for me to witness how important classroom management was and I made up my idea to keep practicing it in every day through out my lesson deliveries.

First of all, as part of classroom management I used the organization of teaching aids and students activities corners in my classroom. For instance, refer to appendix 1 to see some evidences of how I organized my teaching aids and students works corners. After creating these corners, I realized that I have established and sustain an orderly learning environment for my students. I could see there were few number of student walking around in wrong directions because the corners were orderly for them to know exactly where to go. I also learned that applying classroom management promote active learning in the classroom because students are well disciplined with the rules that they have to follow. I saw that most of my students were active in their learning because they have rules to follow and were aware of the consequences when not following the class rules. For example: I created a time out corner, red card warning and some rules for students to follow refer to appendix 2 to see the evidences. I used class rules to decrease negative behaviors of my students and it was successful in making my students obey and show good manners. For instance: I display a paper on the wall which consists of some rules and small punishments that will be applied to those students not following the rules. I gave students a red card as a warning for not following the rules and will send them to sit at the time out corner when repeating or making another mistake. I learned that corporal punishment was not entertained in my class because of applying such classroom management of building rules and small punishments for students.

In my classroom I created an empty box as a rubbish bin for students to use when throwing rubbish refer to appendix 3. I believe that building a clean environment is part of classroom management because it helps class rules and different corners to be stand out when the environment is clean and not messy. I even applied classroom management by using steps or instructions for students activities. One of my activity was new for students to carry out which was known as a fishbone activity so I know that there will be a lot of questions coming from students on how to carry out the activity. Thus, I make an instruction or step on how to carry out the activity and pasted on the board for students to look at and helped them in knowing what to do. Refer to appendix 4 to view the fishbone activity instructions or steps of carrying out the new activity. In my lesson plan I mentioned about how I applied the fishbone activity as part of classroom management refer to appendix 5 to view the part of my lesson plan. At the end of my session I received a feedback from my associate teacher refer to appendix 6 to see my feedback on classroom management.

Appendix 1