Wednesday, February 25, 2009

classroom management

The three tips that I chose for this blog are time mangement, ESOL managment, and interruption management. The reason that I chose these three forms of classroom management is because these are the three things that affect my teaching the most. I have the most problems with interruption because they seem to be non stop and not coming from my students necessarily. Yes I know I've stated that I have had kids arrested out of my classroom, but the day to day interruptions that affect my classroom are from administration and other teachers. The second biggest problem in my classroom is the constant removal and then readmittance of my ESOL students that is getting them behind when they don't need to be or wouldn't be if allowed to stay in the class.
The first thing that I plan on doing is changing up my time management. I plan to be more effective in getting through my instruction and using every available moment to get across some type of relavent information. My biggest problem is not keeping myself on topic and allowing myself to stray onto a linked but not standard important topic. I plan to keep myself on task by focusing on the information that is relavent for the subject matter and its standard components at the time.
My next problem was interruptions for my ESOL students. The ESOL specialists and guidance counselors continuously pull them out of class to give them a test or ask them a question, not realizing that it puts them farther and farther behind in my class. Since we have to send all of their work to the ESOL specialists for them to work on it during their 4th block study hall, I am afraid and have been confirmed by their grades that they are not getting the proper social studies instruction and that is putting them farther and farther behind as well. I have attempted to talk to administration and the guidance counselors but the situation continues as it always has. I don't know what I'm going to do.
Lastly is my interruption management. Teachers and administrators are constantly interrupting my class to ask me a question or take a student out in the hall and ask them a question that has no pertinence to my class or any school situation. These questions are as ludacris as how the students plan on playing in the up coming basketball game. I have already taken steps to show and voice my displeasure with having my class constantly interrupted and have even gone to the principal and other members of the administration about it. I have also told my students that they are responsible for all work missed if they have to be pulled out of my class, but if a teacher pulls them out for a bogus reason they must tell me what the reason is and then I will help them with the make up work.

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