Classroom Managemant/Discipline

Teaching/Discipline:
2. State the behavioral principle that we try to teach children and the “perversions” of the principle. If you disagree with this, state why. “When you do nice things, nice things happen to you. When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.” When you do bad things, nice things happen to you. When you do nice things, bad things happen to you. No matter what you do, bad thing happen to you. No matter what you do, nice things will happen to you.

10. How is depression reinforced? By allowing people to continually talk about problems without taking time to try and figure out a solution can reinforce the negative feeling.

As far as procedures for the use of classroom materials and equipment, this is what Sonja, Heidi, and myself have come up with:

Band:
Instruments, cases, mallets, and materials must be put back on the shelves at the end of class
Put stands and chairs back in line with the row at the end of class
Do not touch or use other student's instruments
Have your music and pencil ready and with you at the beginning of class
Only use pencil when writing in your music

Choir:
Only use pencil to write in your music.
Do not move the piano
Chairs should be kept in their rows and not moved around.
Choir folders must go back in their assigned slots at the end of class
Have your music and pencil ready and with you at the beginning of class

Classroom Management that Works:
1. No, I would approach rules in the same way no matter what the class size is. I think I need to be consistent as a teacher so new students coming into my class have the same opportunities as students I have had in the past.

2. Talk to the students about a point system of grading. Also, emphasizing that by participating in class, following rules, and doing assignments they will succeed in the class and make them realize that by misbehaving and breaking rules they have the potential to lose points.

3. For a choir rehearsal, be playing chords on the piano as they are walking into the room. Have a set warm up that they always start with, and this is what they can sing even as they are walking into the room before they get to their seats.

4. Have them put their folders away five minutes before class is over, have them return to their seats, and then work on a song from memory of vocalises for the remainder of the class period. Or, have them put their instruments away and line up at the door by section.

5. I would tell him to be open to ideas and yet firm at the same time. Students can help establish some of the rules within reason. I may set higher expectations for my students because I have been teaching longer, and I have a better understanding of what to expect from the students that I teach.