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Classroom Management: Classroom Setting. How effective room management could mean a better classroom environment? By: Greylan Heffernan. Room Organization. First Task: Finding a seating arrangement that is successful for your students.
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Classroom Management: Classroom Setting How effective room management could mean a better classroom environment? By: Greylan Heffernan
Room Organization • First Task: Finding a seating arrangement that is successful for your students. • Over the first few days allow students to sit wherever they want. • Look for students who talk too much, annoy or provoke their neighbors, quiet but stay to themselves, or who are helpful to others.
Room Organization • Second Task: Write down a feww brief comments on your findings, and draw a seating plan (single desks, groups of desks, single tables, or group tables) • Look at the personalities of your students • Seat the talkers next to the quiet and focused students • Seat the students who annoy or provoke next to those who can ignore their nonsence easily. • If the students complain, tell them future seating depends on good behavior. You will change seats several times and reward good behavior with the reward of sitting where the students desire.
Desk Arrangement • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoMpRmBQV-U
Your Desk Organization Its not just your students desks that need organization. Use wire baskets, file folders, or colored pocket folders to organize things such as notes from parents, communication with the office, homework and notes to yourself. Utilize the file drawers as a miscellaneous holding place. But remember to go through it every once and while, its only suppose to be a holding place not permanent storage. Use your system regularly so that it become habit and you stay organized.
Seating arrangements that promote positive academic and behavioral outcomes: a review of empirical researchBy Rachel Wannarka and Kathy Ruhl Rows compared to groups (i.e. clusters, tables, and groups of desks) Rows helped increased on-task behavior in all of the studies concerned with Individual tasks. However, with classrooms concerned with interactive tasks, rows showed a decrease in on-task behavior. Marx, Furher, and Hartig study found that 10 year olds asked significantly more questions when seating in a semi-circle. Conclusion: There is no single classroom seating arrangement that promotes positive behavioral and academic outcomes for all tasks – the nature of the task should dictate the arrangement.
Other Classroom Spaces • Decorate the classroom with a theme – heroes, environment, space, or something specific to the context of the class. • Have an exciting bulletin board – grab the students attention with something they may not have known before that impact their lives. • Make sure all furniture and equipment can be easily observed by students. • You can include a student center, where students can work on special activities.
References • Best Classroom Management Practices for Reaching All Learners By Randi Stone • Classroom Management for Secondary Teachers By. Edmund T. Emmer, Carolyn M. Evertson, Barbara S. Clements, and Murray E. Wordham • Seating Arrangements that Promote Positive Academic and Behavioral Outcomes: A Review of Empirical Research By Rachel Wannarka and Kathy Ruhl • The Art of Classroom Management: Effective Practices for Building Equitable Learning Communities By. Barbara McEwan • Common Sense Classroom Management Surviving September and Beyond in the Elementary Classroom By Jill A. Lindberg and April M. Swick
