Teaching: Classroom, Time Management and Control

This is the most difficult aspect of teaching which causes many teachers leave teaching. Classroom management is the term used to describe the process of ensuring that classrooms and lessons run smoothly without disruptive behaviour from students.

As classroom consists of students from different background, the behaviours of these students must distinct, some students are silents others might be talkative or disruptive.

As a result of this, there is need for the teacher to his techniques for controlling the atmosphere of the classroom so that teaching and learning can be done smoothly. Teachers must engage different techniques depending on how his student can cope.

Here are some of the techniques:

Good teacher – student relationship: one of the characteristics of a good teacher to have a very good relationship between the teacher and students. When a qualified teacher develop a positive relationship between him and the students most of the disorderly behaviour, will not happen in the classroom. By looking at the presence of the teacher in the class, noise making, unwanted plays in the classroom will stop. To maintain positive relationship with student the teacher needs to avoid abusing students directly, show them like and correct them on anything performed wrong.

Corporal punishment: This is the use of came to beat misbehave students, now its illegal in some schools but its one of the best technique of managing misbehave students. Misbehaviour of the some students could never be control except you beat them, some of them are afraid of cane. Corporal punishment are applied when other techniques were not working.

Preventive techniques: This involve creating a positive classroom community with mutual respect between teacher and students. Preventive technique means teacher should try his best to block any coop students use to misbehave anything teacher know can be used to stop student from misbehavior should be applied, this will allow the classroom atmosphere to be conducive.

The blue vs orange card theory: William Purkey introduced this theory which suggests that students need supportive, encouraging statements to feel valuable, able and responsible. Many messages are soothing, encouraging and supportive. These messages are blue cards, they encourage a positive self concept. Other messages are critical, discouraging, demeaning. These cards are orange, the international distress colour. The main goal for this, is to full the students file box with more blue cards than orange cards and help students perspective of learning. 

Rote discipline: This involves the use of sanction for misbehave students by assigning them sentence or classroom rules to write repeatedly. 

High cards and low cards: William Purkey also introduced high cards and low cards used by the teacher that gives students the level of management needed. Some of examples of low cards intervention are: raising the eyebrows, staring politely at politely, moving closer to students while continually talking, calling students by name and asking if they are listening. High cards are strong intervension to address what is happening. Examples are: sending student to Principal’s office, keeping student after school, calling home.

EFFECTIVE TIME MANAGEMENT IN THE CLASSROOM 

Among the best qualifies of a good to have a good time management for teaching in the classrooms. A good teacher should prepare and manage his time resources for the benefit of teaching and learning of student. Before entering into the classroom a teacher should make adequate preparation by starting objectives clearly, assessing time demands, writing good lesson plan and make preparation that will suit the given period.

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