Classroom Management Observation

Introduction

Classroom management is a procedure in which lecturers and schools generate and preserve applicable performance of students in classroom surroundings. The main drive of applying classroom management strategies is to improve pro-social behavior and increase student‘s academic involvement in the class (Kratochwill, 2015).

Classroom management creates an organized classroom atmosphere with the help a set of expectations including routines, rules and consequences (Ministry of Education, Guyana, 2015). At the heart of good classroom management is effective teaching. Similarly effective teaching cannot take place in a poorly managed classroom (Marzano, Marzano and Pickering, 2003). In order to maintain classrooms it is important for

The procedure started when I sent a mail to the principal of the school in order to get the permission. Therefore, we ended up meeting and having a discussion of how the observation is going to be scheduled. I got introduced to the leading teachers of the school to confer about the time tables and finalized the dates which I was supposed to go for the observation.

The very next day, I began my observation by going inside the classroom. The purpose of this was to explore what happens inside the classroom, and to note the teaching techniques along with the methods how the teacher used to manage and motivate the students. I had gone into a deeper conclusion by observing students works specifically. In addition to this, I recorded the whole examination by filling out a form.

I completed by observing within two weeks. In each week, I accomplished to observe five lessons. It is significant to note that the teachers which I observed are quite different from each other. It won’t be wrong if I say that they belong to different levels. The motivational strategies which the teachers used are fairly similar. Out of 10 lessons I observed, only 6 teachers inclined to motivate their students by praising them and by encouraging them to do better. However, the instructional techniques which the teachers applied are comparable as

It clearly displays the number and the percentage of lesson these strategies were utilized and which strategy was most popular among the observed teachers. The figure 1.2 below, shows a chart made to depict the above information in detail. The chart (figure 1.2) compares the different motivational strategies used and how many teachers have used the same methods in their lessons.

FIGURE 1.2 The pie chart shows the motivational strategies found in the lessons. Praising their efforts technique is found in most of the lessons while assigning tasks/roles to students and attention seeking techniques are the least used method. It is noticed in the pie chart that different teachers like to use different methods to motivate students as very few methods have been commonly used by most of the teachers. However praising students for their efforts is found to be a popular method among the