Bauer- Classroom Management for Ensembles
What Bauer was trying to get at with this article was basic steps or ways to be a better teacher and how to make things run more smoothly in the classroom setting. He focused on things such as being proactive and planning ahead. This leads to having lesson plans and preparing scores so you are ahead of the students and ready to answer questions. He also mentioned making sure that students and teachers should come into class with “minds-on” and ready to teach/learn. Another good idea mentioned was having a discipline plan ready so when a student acts up the teacher does is ready to react and able to set the student right.
All of the teachers I have had have always been ready for class and ready to teach. They either had a good set lesson plans or scores studied. In my high school band we had trouble with students always being ready to learn and not having “minds-on” as Bauer says. It disrupted from rehearsal a bit because students would be talking and it would make it hard to focus for the students that were ready to learn. The only discipline plan our teacher had for students disrupting class was lowering their grade for the day.
I completely agree with everything in this article. I love the idea of needing to be proactive. I believe being ahead of the game and having plans ready and just being ready for class in general will make you more happy, making the students more excited to come to class. No student wants to go to a class were the teacher is not happy and not ready for the class. I also agree that always acting and speaking like a professional is very important. If you can not separate your self from the students mentally and emotionally, you should not be in front of them trying to teach them. I believe students show more respect for someone with authority than if someone was acting just like them.
Marzano-The Key to Classroom Management
Marzano’s article was mostly about creating a good friendly, interactive relationship with your students. Research shows that students prefer to have a teacher who will work with them and have a friendlier attitude. If students get along with the teacher they are less likely to act up. The other part of this article was mostly about establishing expectations and consequences. If a student understands the expectations and the consequences if they don not meet those expectations they will be more likely to not push limits and see how much they can get away with.
In high school my choir director was really friendly and had a good relationship with all of her students. I always felt more “at home” in choir than any other class just because of the atmosphere from the teacher.
I agree having a good relationship with the students is good but I believe that you should still be a little distant because if you are too close to students that could become a problem in the future. Establishing expectations and consequences early is a very good idea. Students need to know what you are expecting of them, just like you know they are expecting you to teach them. Consequences are good to establish also so that students know if they misbehave they can not come up to you saying “but I didn’t know that was going to happen if I did this.”
Molly- this is lightyears ahead of your previous submissions! Not only are you following format, but you are showing good, succinct detail in your summaries, great reflections, and detailed reactions. I am very impressed with your new work here!
ReplyDeleteIn your Marzano reflection, the second paragraph, you were a little vague in describing your high school choir experience, using only 2 sentences. Think about what specifically the teacher did or how she acted that portrayed the "at home" atmosphere, and how she treated each of you. How did she establish a good relationship?
Aside from that, I felt you were very detailed - I also didn't know you were in choir! You also had some really good ideas and comments in your Bauer reactions. Well done!