Classroom Environment

Year 4

Practicum II - Winter 2023

Competency Development: Create a respectful and ethical learning community that encourages learners to take risks, build trust, embrace diversity, increase self-confidence and show leadership (TQS 4a, 4g, 5b, 5c)

Goal Before Practicum: During my practicum my goal is to encourage risk-taking in my classrooms. This will be achieved by having students work in groups and getting out of their comfort zone. During teaching, I will celebrate student risks, mistakes, and failures and put emphasis that these are opportunities for learning and growth.

Growth: Each morning our class had a morning meeting where there would be a question and each student would get the opportunity to share in the form of a sharing circle. We decided to do goal setting as a class and at the end of each week we would reflect on our goals from the previous week. This built a strong sense of community within our classroom and students became more comfortable sharing and participating as we continued to do it.

Year 3

Practicum 1 - Fall 2021:

Competency Development: Creates and manages effective classroom routines and procedures to ensure positive student behaviour

(MRU B.Ed. Program Outcomes IE3, TQS 4f).

Goal Before Practicum: Being at my practicum for the first week of school, the routines and procedures have been established and clear for me. My mentor teacher also has established a routine for her daily math lessons and long term planning. My goal for this semester is to maintain the routines that my mentor teacher has put in place so that my students are familiar with them and feel comfortable in my teaching.

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Growth: During my practicum, at the beginning, I felt it was important to continue using my mentor teacher's way of teaching and different routines. After a couple of weeks, I decided I wanted to make some changes and put some of my own ideas into the routines.

I felt that it was important to connect with my students, therefore I incorporated small things into our days to give me time to connect and get to know them. Doing this made my classroom management easier, and also increased positive behaviour because of the relationships and connections that I had made. My students knew that I respected and cared for them, which in turn, made them give me the same respect back.

Year 2

Winter:

Motivation Case Study

Growth: This assignment opened my eyes to see what kind of diverse learning needs that students have and how different theories of motivation explain children's behaviour. Doing this case study also made me think of other people or students I have interacted with and what tied in with their personalities and motivations. This is a very beneficial assignment because it taught me how to "make reasoned decisions in response to contextual variables" (IE 1), the variable being motivation in this situation. I understand now how motivation varies and how teachers are able to increase student motivation.

Goals: My goal for next semester is to continue to learn how I can increase student motivation in subjects that may not being as appealing to some students such as math or science.

Fall:

Growth: Having a classroom environment that supports and accepts all students and cultures is crucial to having a positive classroom climate. One way that I can have an inclusive environment is by the literature I choose to read to students. I have attached an image of the book When I Was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton. This book is a story about indigenous culture and perspectives. Teaching children about different cultures through books is a way to have an inclusive classroom.

Goals: My goal is to gain more knowledge about children's indigenous literature and ensure that the books I choose aren't stereotyping or disrespectful to indigenous culture in any way.

Year 1

Winter:

Journal Entry

Growth: This year I learnedthe importance of having a positive and safe classroom environment. A big focus that I had this year was on the classroom environment and the relationships that I developed with the students. I believe that maintaining positive relationships with students is a crucial part of being a teacher and having students feel comfortable with being themselves and making mistakes.

Goals: Over the next few years, I want to learn even more how to keep my classroom a positive, safe, and comfortable learning environment for students. I have attatched a journal entry that I completed that talks a lot about a positive classroom environment and a few examples of what that looks like.

Fall:

Growth: I have learned that the way a classroom is set up and the tone that the teacher sets is an important way for students to feel comfortable and be able to be themselves. The classroom that I am in has student work all over the walls and is a warm and welcoming environment. Students are allowed to work where they want to as long as they are behaving. It is the teacher's job to create a positive climate and ensure that students know that mistakes are acceptable and allow students to be an environment that best works for them.

Goals: I am looking forward to seeing other classrooms and being able to integrate the things I like into my own. My goal is for students to feel comfortable in my future classroom and enjoy learning.

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