Classroom Management | Teaching Portfolio

My Classroom Management Philosophy

I believe that all students should have access to a safe and positive classroom environment (including general education students, low SES, students with disabilities, and ELLs). In order to create this environment there must be...

Ideal Layout

Layout

Click below to find a more detailed description of what my ideal classroom would look like and why!

Rules

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First Day Schedule

First Week of School Setup
Includes how my classroom community will and how I will achieve and maintain a community.

Beginning of the Year

Love and Logic

When there is conflict, I choose to respond in the following ways:

1. Always start with empathy

2. Do not make assumptions

3. Ask students to explain the situation

4. Ask students what should happen next

5. Always provide choices

6. Describe to students what is going to happen

7. Focus on only what you can control

8. Let consequences do the teaching

9. Use empathetic responses

10. Never rub in unwanted behavior or the consequences

Respect:

Respect is central to my classroom in order to create a safe environment for each student. This goes two ways; teacher-to-student respect and student-to-student respect. Together, the students and I will make a class contract at the beginning of the year. Students will have input into what they want our classroom to look like. This ensures that students feel valued as the developing individuals that they are and that we are all on the same page as far as how we can work together to be an inclusive community.

Security and Shelter:

I want to ensure that students feel physically and psychologically safe in the classroom. I would do this by providing a space for students who need a few moments to settle. This could be a quiet book nook, safe room, etc. This also means providing some softness to the environment whether that be through softer furniture in the safe and quiet spaces of the classroom, or softer lighting so that students are not overstimulated by the environment. I will place desks away from high-traffic areas so that my students who have learning disabilities will not be easily distracted by students that are moving around.

Diversity and Inclusion

I also want to ensure that all of my students feel represented within my classroom. I will provide diverse literature in which all students are represented (racially, socially, their gender, culture, etc.). I will also openly communicate with each student's family/guardians to ensure that they have any suggestions or feedback on how to work best with their student and how I can make the classroom more inclusive for them. For example, this could look like having all reminders on the walls in both English and Spanish, if I have an ELL student. I also hope to have an open-door policy with my students, meaning that no matter what or when the student can come to talk to me about personal or academic affairs.