Idaho State Standard 5
Classroom Motivation and Management skills
The first artifact I included contains the field notes and a classroom map of Mrs. Brock’s 8th grade Algebra class that I observed in my first week, November 2nd and 4th, 2010, at Middleton Middle School. This assignment was for my Introduction to Teaching class my sophomore year at The College of Idaho taught by Dr. Yates. The second artifact is a lesson plan of a classroom management lesson I taught on April 19th, 2013 for my Curriculum and Instruction class with Dr. Moore at The College of Idaho.
I chose the first artifact because during the first week of observation at Middleton Middle School, I was exposed to classroom management and motivation for the first time from a teachers’ perspective. I included the second artifact because I taught a lesson on classroom management that utilized group interaction and engagement in learning throughout the educational experience for the students. Therefore, I placed this artifact in Standard 5 because it demonstrates the teacher understand[ing] individual and group motivation and behavior and creat[ing] a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self motivation, which is the definition of Standard 5 according to the Idaho Core Teaching Standards.
Mrs. Brock demonstrates classroom motivation and management by her room layout. Having the desks in rows allows for students to become easily engaged by what it going on in the front of the classroom and provides a way to efficiently prevent disruptions between students, as individuals of this age group frequently partake in, as they are physically separated from each other. Also, Mrs. Brock has the entire class participate in discussion of the assignment to allow for students to interact with others and the teacher. From Mrs. Brock I have learned ways to effectively use the layout of a classroom to assist in classroom management and attention that I would like to apply to my own classroom.
In the lesson I taught in regards to classroom management, I lead the students in creating poster cards of content or age level specific rules and procedures they would use in their own classroom. The students actively engaged because they were provided an activity that allowed them to use creative and nonlinguistic techniques to learn while working in groups. The class then performed a gallery walk to compare and contrast their own rule cards. Before working on the daily task, it was discussed as a group the rules and procedures our classroom would use to create a learning environment. By teaching a lesson in classroom management, I had to thoroughly understand the material I was teaching and I was able to deepen my own knowledge of classroom motivation and management skills by learning from the students of their opinion.
I chose the first artifact because during the first week of observation at Middleton Middle School, I was exposed to classroom management and motivation for the first time from a teachers’ perspective. I included the second artifact because I taught a lesson on classroom management that utilized group interaction and engagement in learning throughout the educational experience for the students. Therefore, I placed this artifact in Standard 5 because it demonstrates the teacher understand[ing] individual and group motivation and behavior and creat[ing] a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self motivation, which is the definition of Standard 5 according to the Idaho Core Teaching Standards.
Mrs. Brock demonstrates classroom motivation and management by her room layout. Having the desks in rows allows for students to become easily engaged by what it going on in the front of the classroom and provides a way to efficiently prevent disruptions between students, as individuals of this age group frequently partake in, as they are physically separated from each other. Also, Mrs. Brock has the entire class participate in discussion of the assignment to allow for students to interact with others and the teacher. From Mrs. Brock I have learned ways to effectively use the layout of a classroom to assist in classroom management and attention that I would like to apply to my own classroom.
In the lesson I taught in regards to classroom management, I lead the students in creating poster cards of content or age level specific rules and procedures they would use in their own classroom. The students actively engaged because they were provided an activity that allowed them to use creative and nonlinguistic techniques to learn while working in groups. The class then performed a gallery walk to compare and contrast their own rule cards. Before working on the daily task, it was discussed as a group the rules and procedures our classroom would use to create a learning environment. By teaching a lesson in classroom management, I had to thoroughly understand the material I was teaching and I was able to deepen my own knowledge of classroom motivation and management skills by learning from the students of their opinion.