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In order for students to be able to engage deeply with content, the classroom environment must be orderly; the atmosphere must feel business-like and productive, without being authoritarian. In a productive classroom, standards of conduct are clear to students; they know what they are permitted to do and what they can expect of their classmates. Even when their behavior is being corrected, students feel respected; their dignity is not undermined. Skilled teachers regard positive student behavior not as an end in itself, but as a prerequisite to high levels of engagement in content.
(Danielson, C. 2013)
Artifact 2d-1
Artifact 2d-1
I am currently enrolled in my Senior Practicum this semester. From this course, I have learned a lot from my mentor teacher and what it means to be a professional in the work place. One important strategy of managing student behavior that I have learned from her was in taking away student privileges. On every Friday, at the end of the week, the students receive PAT time, Preferred Activity Time. During this time, the students can pick certain activities that they can participate in. Whenever a student is too loud during the week or is miss-behaving, the teacher takes away PAT time for the students, more time doing school work and less time doing their preferred activity. This motivated students to stay on task and to finish their work in order to be motivated to do PAT time. I do not have an artifact to represent this behavioral system; however, I believe that this is a great representation of each of a behavioral system for the entire class.
Artifact 2d-2
Artifact 2d-2
When I am in my own classroom, I would want to have a point system with my students where each of the students would receive 5 points at the beginning of the day. As the day goes on, students could loose points based on whether or not they are obeying the rules or not. If a student is misbehaving or breaking the rules, they will be asked to remove a point from their name. At the end of the day, those points will be collected and added as the days goes on. At the beginning of everyday, the students start with ten points again. Once a student receives a certain amount of points, they can receive an individual prize from a prize box. The image to the right is a representation of a similar idea. Students are evaluated daily on their behavior, and once they reach a certain point, they receive a prize.
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