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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Rabadi, S. (2017, November 14). 5 principles of outstanding classroom management. Edutopia. Retrieved January 23, 2022, from https://www.edutopia.org/article/5-principles-outstanding-classroom-management

In this article, as a result of survey and inquiries in the academic communities, the author enumerated the 5 principles of an outstanding classroom management that was drawn from about 700 ideas collected from the answers. It has appeared the among all, the number principle of having an outstanding classroom management is the teacher keeping himself healthy for him to take care of the students. With this, he highlighted that a teacher should be healthy in order to give his best in delivering a good learning experience in class. Next is the importance of building relationships which emphasized the rapport skill of the teacher, no just to students but also to their parents. Setting rules, boundaries, and expectations come next which reminded teachers to have an established structure in class so they would feel safe and could focus on their own learning. Strength-based approach was the one being enumerated where teachers should employ strategies that would improve and promotes students, honing their strengths to maximize it in making their weaknesses as their strengths also. Lastly, Involve parents and guardians, the author believed that it takes community to teach a child, which is true and correct in order to ensure a meaningful learning to learners. In the end, the author emphasized that having an effective classroom management requires awareness, good timing, boundaries, and instinct.

GENERAL REFLECTIONS

Overall, I realized that classroom management is vital because it can define your efficiency and effectivity as a teacher. It greatly affects the learning of the students and it contributes to their engagement and participation during class. A good classroom management reflects the skill of the teacher, with this skill, it can definitely make students learn something from you and your discussion. In addition, I believe that in employing classroom management strategies, it must be research-based. Everything that is going on in the classroom that concerns to the learning of the students and factors that contribute it should always be based on research to ensure that the students really learn in the class through meeting their needs and demands as learners. Through research-based approach and strategies in handling students, it could make sure that every student, regardless of how diverse they are, would be catered according to their own way of learning.

As pre-service teacher, I firmly believe that the classroom management skill should always be prioritized just like the content and delivery. It is very vital that if a teacher has no good and effective classroom management strategy in class, the rest will not go into place. The delivery of the content of the teacher will suffer and the learnings of the students will be compromised. It should be the primary skill that a teacher and an aspiring teacher should possess to give the best quality of education they can offer to the students.