It is essential to establish a set of class rules that emphasizes a sense of community in the classroom. You need to hold everyone accountable, if the students agree on and sign a set of rules they can hold each other accountable as well. It is important to establish respect, students need to know that you will give them respect as long as they also respect you as the teacher. The same goes with fellow classmates. Rules need to be enforced right off the bat, if not students may think they can get away with things and it is key to running a classroom efficiently and most effectively.
I believe that setting up a community of learners is very important and I hope to do this in my classroom. I want my students to feel comfortable coming to me with any problems. For example, last week we had our pretest for spelling on Monday. Students that get one or less wrong on the pretest get and enrichment list. We were having some problems with students changing one or two letters so they could reach the enrichment requirements. We addressed the issue by sitting down as a class and talking about being honest with yourself, one another, and me as the teacher. After the lesson for writing was over and the students had returned to their desks student B came to me and said Miss Roberts I need the regular list for spelling this week, I don't deserve the enrichment list because I changed two of my words. It felt so good to know that he felt comfortable coming to me knowing I wasn't going to reprimand or make him feel bad. I actually commended him for his honesty and told him he could put a pebble in our positive reward jar for his willingness to come forward and be so honest with me.
We have built a very trusting and honest class through a community setting and I hope to one day carry this on in my classroom.
I believe that setting up a community of learners is very important and I hope to do this in my classroom. I want my students to feel comfortable coming to me with any problems. For example, last week we had our pretest for spelling on Monday. Students that get one or less wrong on the pretest get and enrichment list. We were having some problems with students changing one or two letters so they could reach the enrichment requirements. We addressed the issue by sitting down as a class and talking about being honest with yourself, one another, and me as the teacher. After the lesson for writing was over and the students had returned to their desks student B came to me and said Miss Roberts I need the regular list for spelling this week, I don't deserve the enrichment list because I changed two of my words. It felt so good to know that he felt comfortable coming to me knowing I wasn't going to reprimand or make him feel bad. I actually commended him for his honesty and told him he could put a pebble in our positive reward jar for his willingness to come forward and be so honest with me.
We have built a very trusting and honest class through a community setting and I hope to one day carry this on in my classroom.
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That is definitely a testament to your community building skills. Developing that ease within a class in such a short amount of time is not easy to do and you should feel confident in the fact that you were able to establish such a report. It is important to have that image of how you want your class to run before setting out. Nicely done!
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