Preservice Teacher

Teachers must consider many different aspects of teaching in order to educate and create a beneficial environment for learning to take place. However, as a preservice teacher, I have learned that this task is more difficult than it seems. For instance, I realized that one aspect that must be taken into consideration is that the decisions we make during the class might determine the relationship with our students, outcome of the class or trigger unwanted events. Consequently, teachers should take a pause and examine what type of class they want to achieve and the consequences of the decisions taken for the fulfillment of it.

In our daily lives, we perform intentional actions in order to achieve a result. For example, we could frown at someone’s

Therefore, we should be careful with how we react, express ourselves or even stand in front of the class. For instance, when I was a high school student, my classmates used to complain about our English teacher because they thought he was unfair due to his friendly relationship with one of our classmates; they thought the teacher was giving him good grades as a gift. The two of them were always talking about music groups and the teacher always praised him because he was a good student. Due to this, we did not want to participate because the focus of the class would be on our classmate. However, as a preservice teacher, I realized that even if you get along with some students, it does not mean that you will deny learning opportunities to the others. However, students think differently because they are at a different stage in their lives. Moreover, these differences could make our students misunderstand one of our decisions, jeopardizing our relationship and the development of the class. Therefore, we should take into consideration the possible consequences of our classroom management practices or

In my experience, classroom management practices would be different for every teacher because we consider different things to be important. For instance, as a person and a teacher, communication is important for me. Hence, a model classroom would be one in which teachers and student could communicate without fear or embarrassment. If we apply this to the example of my high school teacher, I now realize that we misunderstood him. It seems to me that we should have a good communication with our students in order to avoid that kind of issue. Moreover, this should start from us, the teachers, so that students could start to trust us and consequently have a good communication with us. Students will not care until they see that you care (Lucero, n.d.). As this is an important aspect for me, my decisions will be affected by this belief, and I will try to enhance this in my classroom, but it can be different for other