CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Overview This research is concerned with setting classroom management in the first two weeks of the school year in kg1 class. To be able to decide on the best effective classroom management strategies kg1 teachers should use in order to facilitate effective teaching and learning, important facts will be discussed and different aspects will be considered in this research. This research will be divided into the following chapters. Chapter one is the introduction that consists
Undoubtedly, classroom management is essential for every teacher to increase pupils’ academic achievement in classroom. According to Emmer & Sabornie (2015), classroom management can be defined as the process by which teachers and schools shape and maintain appropriate behaviour of pupils in classroom settings. (as cited in Kratochwill, DeRoos and Blair, 2016) Therefore, it could be seen that classroom management is one of the most important aspects foe teacher to boost pupils’ performance and minimize
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
is problem solving” a quote by Karl Popper holds absolutely true for teachers who struggle to establish a productive work environment in their classrooms. It is important for the teacher to maintain a creative and positive environment in the classroom to engage the students in learning. It is a prerequisite for teaching and learning. Classroom management is all of the things that a teacher does to organize students, space, time and materials so that student learning can take place (Wong & Wong, 2014)
Classroom management is important for the teachers as they have to monitor the students’ behaviour and performance in class. However, it is not easy to have 100% attention from the students in class. There will be some students with learning problems in class which will be elaborated on further. In the 21st century, traditional way of educating will not be effective to the students due to the factors such as technology. Students now grow up with hand phones and computers. Images have the power to
Classroom management Hargreaves reminds us that rules specify acceptable forms of classroom conduct and that they are either laid down by the teacher or arrived at by agreement between him and the children. Rules play an important part in helping to define the classroom situation in terms of the teacher’s dominance and if this is not established early on, then the children will define the situation on their advantage and very much to the teacher’s discomfort. The purpose of a good classroom management
Classroom management is exactly what it sounds like, the way a classroom is managed or taken care of so that the students in said class do what they are supposed to and learn what they need in order to successfully go on into other subjects. In order for the students to not have a hard time and as well as the teacher the classroom is needed to be in an environment in which both parties have an understanding and respect for one another. The teacher needs to be in charge. Teachers are automatically
various roles in a typical classroom but surely, one of the most important is that of classroom manager. Effective teaching and learning cannot take place in a poorly managed classroom. If students are disorderly and disrespectful and no apparent rules and procedures guide behavior, chaos becomes the norm. In these situations, teacher and students suffer. Teacher struggle to teach and students most likely learn much less than they should. But a well- managed classroom doesn’t just appear out nowhere
that influence school learning and that classroom management has been identified as one of the variables that have greatest influence on school learning. Today, in primary schools an increasing problem for teachers and administrators is classroom management because of changes in educational environments. Today, either the teachers are experienced or novice, both are concerned about controlling the students and creating a disciplined environment in the classrooms for effective teaching and learning
During my most recent student teaching experience I had quite a small number of students in my classroom whose position was attention seeking, each student displayed this position in various ways. For example, one student was informed that I would be leaving within a week. This student began to request hugs every day and informing me that she would really miss me. Therefore, every day I would have to explain to this student that I was not leaving on a permanent basis and would only be one hallway