Gina Gaines' Classroom Management Plan

Classroom Management Plan

·         In my classroom I will post the standard that I am working on and the vocabulary that will be used with the content.  I also will put the desk in circle or pods instead of the usual seating assignment as Fred Jones suggested in his writings.

·         I want to build strong relationships with my students like William Glasser talks about in his theory.  I also want to know what is going on inside the school.  I find these things out when I go into Marshall County’s out of school suspension room and talk to the students.  Every day I do this almost everyday and talk to the students that are not in there.  I get many different stories and the teacher in there is amazed at the fact the students tell me what they did wrong.  I do tell them that I am becoming a teacher and want to know what is going on in the schools before I come into the classroom permanently.  I will try to keep in contact with the teachers and administration I will deal with so I can always know what I need to do to improve.  I plan on the first day to give the students an index cards with a few questions for them to fill out and turn in to me so that I can get to know them.  I could use a “snowball fight”, this would be where I would give each student a piece of paper to write something that they would like to share.  I would then have them crumple up the paper and have the snowball fight for a few seconds.  Then pick up a paper and open it and take turns reading what is written on the paper. 

·         Ultimately I want my students to feel good about themselves.  I want them to succeed and do well.  I will ask students about them and try to get to know each one.  That way I may be able to help them achieve a goal.

·         I will have many ideas at hand to be able to change direction if needed.  Incase the students do not understand I can come at the concept from a different way.  This is idea that I would be reusing from Fred Jones. 

·         In my classroom I will set my priorities and find out what the students priorities to combine them to set an over all priorities for the whole class.  This is what William Glasser uses in his classroom.

·         I also like the Wong uses role-playing in the classroom.   I think it is important for the students to have a job in the classroom so it will make us a community.  This concept goes along with Redl and Watburg and the idea that each student has a role or job in the classroom.