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Classroom Management Rationale

The main thing is to always remember that I am teaching to a variety of students and I

must teach to their needs. Whether it is maintaining differentiation or using different teaching

techniques, the best way to keep students in “line” is to keep them involved and entertained

in the class.

I feel that to initiate management, we need to have a collaboration on the classroom rules.

I want to involve the students will show them that they have power in the decisions being

made but not enough to control the entire classroom. As Marzano says in his action steps,

“Involve students in the design of rules and procedures”(25). There will be some standard

rules that will be discussed and made by me as well as student-created rules.

I’d much rather use the idea of reinforcements than punishment because I believe that

expressing the good will encourage students to continue with that behavior while punishment

will discourage participation in general. I’m not saying that I won’t use punishment because

that’s not realistic but I will try to use more of a reward system than something to discourage

the students. Marzano suggests “to provide for consistent consequences across all teachers in

the school when students engage in disruptive behavior” (33) and I would love that but I can

imagine it to be fairly difficult to follow through with all different teachers. I personally

would love to do horizontal learning in all schools but that is extremely unlikely to every

happen.

Within the context of control, I want to give my students more responsibility. My belief 

revolves around give and take. If I give students respect and the option for personal

responsi bility, I believe I will get it in return. I don’t want to give into the prejudice mindset

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of certain students and their previous lives. I think being upfront about expectations will

make it easier for students to follow. As Marzano states, “Provide students with cognitively

 based strategies” (88) so that they know how to responsibly react and know what is coming.

Just like with responsibility, the classroom itself will be a give and take relationship. I

want the students to engage in the classroom, to ask questions and question everything but I

also think I can learn from them (44). I can see things in a new light and add things I didn’t

know before. I assume that giving students the green light to not monitoring themselves (to

an extent) will let them be honest with me and each other in the classroom. I want a

classroom that has discussions about controversial topics and I want a classroom that isn’t

afraid to stand up against someone else’s comments, whether that comment comes from in

class or not.