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EDUC 517 Reading Response

April 14, 2010 at 3:40 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

After reading the article “Intervention in School and Clinic” I feel that I have a larger perspective on what rules work and what rules may not work as well in a classroom.  I think that all classroom teachers need to establish classroom rules in order to have an effective learning-based classroom. I would do this the very first day of school by allowing the students to actually create some of their own rules.  I think that it is very important to include verbal and nonverbal praise to students because a balance must be present. I believe that students need to have established rules that are predictable and fair for everyone, or else it will not work. Rules also need to be appropriate for the grade-level one is teaching otherwise they will not be able to follow them fairly.  If teachers do not fairly enforce rules then they should not be in place as a policy for the students to follow. As long as the teachers are able to enforce their created classroom management things should be effective.  There are several examples of classroom praise that are proven to be more effective than other examples. An example I use in my classroom is, “thank you So-and-so” this seems to be very effective and when the students hear the teacher calling out their name for something positive they are going to try and follow the rules because they want to be praised. There are several instances in my EC cluster where I chose to ignore students on purpose. This happens when a student who has an intervention is acting up during class and we chose to prevent a meltdown. In the end I will choose to have a minimal number of rules because it will be easier to keep track of and easier to enforce once I start teaching.  I think if children are aware, know, and understand the classroom rules they will hopefully have a better chance of following the rules. I am just excited to get my own classroom and start making rules because the ones that my classroom uses now seem to really work well! I plan to enforce many of the same rules in mys own classroom.