Instead of focusing solely on the misbehavior in the classroom, I want to focus on the positive behavior and attitudes in my classroom. I will have the students or their parents fill out postcards at the beginning of the year with their address on them. I will use these postcards throughout the year to send positive feedback to the parents at home every week. I want to acknowledge and encourage exceptional behavior and academic success in my classroom. I will make sure that positive post cards home will be given out for all students no matter how big or how small the accomplishment. I will also make some positive phone calls home to parents in order to talk to them directly. Parents appreciate positive phone calls home and it sets up a dialogue between parents and teachers. Allowing parents the opportunity to be involved from home is another way to involve parents in the classroom as well as reinforce excellent behavior and learning by the students.

Since standards demand an enormous amount of effort in the classroom, that academic achievement requires the cooperative efforts of a “village” of learners to educate a child. Parent involvement is a significant aspect in teaching and classroom management. The education of many students today requires the cooperation of educators as well as parents. Working with parents and involving them as much as possible can insure every student achieves their greatest potential which is important to me. I will publish a monthly newsletter and create a classroom webpage, so parents can observe what is going on in the classroom. The parent can see upcoming projects, due dates, and any other important information about their child’s class.  It is important in any teaching environment to have parents that care and wish to be involved. Parents can be involved in their child’s education outside the classroom while at home by helping their child with homework and learning activities. If the parents know what types of techniques I use in the classroom, they can employ these same techniques at home.  In turn, if a student is struggling with a certain activity or lesson, the parent can help and encourage the student’s progress. This will simply re-enforce what I am doing in the classroom and involve parents more, in their child’s education. With an organized, controlled, parents involved classroom, an educationally stimulating curriculum will assist in managing students.

Creating an environment where misbehavior is less likely to happen is to construct an engaging and educational curriculum. This way the students will have less time to fool around, be bored, and misbehave because they will be absorbed by exploration and learning. The most important tool to motivate students is to keep them actively involved with a variety of lessons they enjoy or find interesting. As a teacher, I will involve my students in each lesson to ensure positive learning. Sometimes it is hard to teach specific subjects in many different ways, but I will make subjects engaging as well as educational. As a teacher, I will have different teaching techniques, a variety of teaching methods, and be prepared and organized for each day with lesson plans. I plan to have lessons that will strengthen my students’ listening skills, by reading stories and having the students remember their favorite part and when we have finished, and have them talk about or draw that part for the class. I will work on the students writing skills by having them begin writing their names, addresses and phone numbers. Incorporating games with objects to remember, will show how everyone can see things differently and also the same.  This technique will also teach them to explain or tell a story about what they saw.  By using the three learning techniques of audio, visual, and kinesthetic, I can incorporate several valuable skills while making learning entertaining as well as educational.  

Every child is capable of learning, therefore, I must establish high expectations for student achievement and must see to it that these expectations are met or exceeded. An effective classroom management plan can be a teacher’s most useful tool in cultivating student achievement. Students are active participants in their learning when they know what to expect from me and when they know that I care about them. I hope to create an environment that is conducive to learning and involves all my students. The most important part of classroom management is not the behavior problems, but creating an effective rapport with the students, encouraging students to succeed and setting high expectations for them, while utilizing an engaging curriculum. This type of environment will limit the behavior problems in my classroom from the start. Teaching is an incredible profession and the idealistic foundation of classroom management needs to be implemented in order to have classroom success for effective learning!