Effective teachers manage the classroom and other teaching sites in exemplary
ways.
* Teachers need to be aware that they not only teach they also manage a classroom.
* Teachers employ teaching strategies to not only teach knowledge but social behaviour. To do this they should abide by appropriate behaviour and model the behaviour of the adult world.
* Teachers need to have positive professional relationships with their students and should create a nurturing environment.
* Teachers must provide students with the skills necessary to function in a classroom.
Students need to be explicitly taught the appropriate skills and behaviour to function in the classroom and, later, in the adult world. The teachers are a model of this behaviour and must manage the students.
To develop this competency I will need to:
1) set out the rules of the classroom, and punishments if these rules should
be broken, explicitly, although the students may play a role in developing
them.
2) always be ready follow through with the punishment if one is necessary.
3) have other activities ready if the class is becoming un-manageable.
4) be fair and equal with enforcement of rules, don’t pick on one particular
person.
5) behave in a manner that students can respect and follow.
6) be aware of the schools policies and rules about behaviour management.
7) look confident even if you’re not.
8) re-enforce ‘good’ behaviour.
Strengths and Weaknesses of this competency:
The strength of this competency is that it re-enforces the idea that teachers
should model the appropriate behaviour, that student behaviour is their responsibility.
The weakness is the unpredictable nature of student’s behaviour and
the acknowledgement that teachers are only human and will make mistakes sometimes.
Current evidence of this competency:
In EPT107 we have gone through some non-verbal strategies for dealing with
bad behaviour but I will come to know the policies of the school on my first
prac.