My Classroom Management Plan

I. The complex result I seek: a. Relationships: Relationship between the teacher and students: Students feel valued and appreciated. Students are clearly about what are expected from the teacher and willing to fulfill the expectation. Students feel that the teacher is professional, but also kind and not fear to approach. Students feel their relationship with the teacher is formal, yet inviting. Students feel that the teacher cares about them by heart and notice their different backgrounds and needs.

Relationship with families: Parents are clear about what I expect from their children. Parents are supportive and willing to help their children academically at home.

b. Knowledge and Skills: Students know why they learn what they learn. Students find the tasks stimulating and they can sustain interest. Students feel what they learn are related to their lives. Students feel what they learn help achieving their short-term and long-term goal.

c. Academic Habits: Students are always prepared for class. Students are participating actively in all kinds of activities. Students complete all classwork and homework with high quality and meet the deadlines. Students are hold accountable for their own academic progress. Students are willing to share with peers in the class as well as people outside the class. Students not only meet the course requirements but also would like to go beyond it. Students are not only cooperative in the class but also helpful to their classmates. Students set aside certain amount of time practicing at home every day. Students devote and make most of the classroom time efficiently in learning. Students are comfortable to ask questions in the class. Students are willing to ask for help from their peers and the teacher when they encounter problems.

d. Attitudes: Students are willing to follow the classroom and school rules. Students show respect towards other people. Students show respect towards the difference between different people and cultures. Students are persistent and willing to try their best in order to achieve their goals.

e. Social habits: Students are cooperative in the class, with the teacher, with partners or in the group.

f. Shared understandings: Students understand that the teacher will always be there to help. Students understand practice makes perfect and Rome is not built in a day. Students understand that success will be hard to achieve without passion.

II. My courses of action and teachers move a. Establish a warm, caring and welcoming classroom. Moves: Be welcoming to students by greeting all students at the door in Chinese. Search for students interests and strength. Involve students in arranging the physical classroom setting.

b. Establish, teaches and reinforce rules. Moves: Discuss the need for classroom rules, and brainstorm with the students what rules should be followed and establish the set of classroom rules with the students in the classroom. Send a classroom expectations contract home with students on the first day to be signed by the students and their parents. [2] Post the rules on the wall. Make it clear the consequences related to the breaking of the rules and rewards for following them. Revisit and reinforce the rules when students break them. Use a self-monitoring sheet for students to monitor their own behavior.

c. Establish, teaches and reinforce routines. Moves: Establish a small set of routines that would be most frequently used. Beginning and ending of school day or class period Transitions and interruptions Use of materials and equipment Group work Seatwork and teacher-led activities Explain to students the necessity of having the routines. Teach routines for the specific situations including the above ones. The teacher models how to follow the routines and ask small group of students to model as well.

d. Motivate students to learn Moves Help students notice the relationship between effort and outcome. [1] o Give students who are academically successful chances to share their learning experiences and strategies. o Show students how to find resources to enhance their language skills, such as movies and songs. Help students set their own short-term and long-term goal. Help students see the relationship between their everyday learning and their short-term and long-term goal. Help students establishing a good learning habit and tell them how it fosters learning. Relate lessons to students own lives. Find materials that will arouse students interests and sustain their learning. Provide opportunities for choice. [1] Model interest in learning and express enthusiasm for the material. [1] Provide opportunities for students to respond actively.(be interactive) [1] Allow students to create finished products. (internalize students learning)
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Provide opportunities for students to interact with peers.(telling students reason to do so) [1] Use activities as rewards.

e. Build relationship with students Moves: Setting rules, consequences and rewards together with the students. Be sensitive to students concerns. [1] Understand students different motivation and goals in learning Chinese.

Get to know students, especially their different family and cultural background, through classroom activities, talking to the student, talking to their friends, PTC meetings and phone calls home. Get to know students learning style by doing survey. Search for students strength. [1] Be professional and prepared for each class. Give students choices of different aspects from the arrangement of the chairs to what to learn and how to learn. Teach students what to do if they get stuck. [1] Teach students when and how to ask teacher for help if they encounter any difficulty under different circumstances.

f. Build relationship among students Moves: Hold class meetings for students to communicate with each other. [1] Help and provide opportunity for students to get to know one another. [1] Use cooperative learning groups. [1] Give students chances to show their own talents and special points with their classmates.

g. Build relationship with parents Moves: Develop a classroom expectations contract and ask both parents and students to sign it. Send a letter to parents to introduce the teacher and the course and give them guidance of how to help their children at home. Give interactive homework which students will need cooperation from their parents. Have students take the finished products home and share them with parents.

References: 1. Weinstein, C. S., Mignano, A. J., & Romano, M. E. (2007). Elementary Classroom Management: Lessons from Research and Practice (4th edition). NY: McGraw-Hill. 2. Rinkel, J. (2011). Creating a Well-Managed Classroom in Scholastic, Retrieved August 13, 2011, from http://blogs.scholastic.com/classroom_solutions/2011/08/creating-a-well-managedclassroom.html#more