THE TEACHING PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT

Each beginner teacher faces problems, which can prevent her lesson being a success. For that,
the teacher has to try many ways to solve these problems. Actually, I faced some challenges in
my teaching practice but I solved these and improved the way I taught, achieving great lessons.

Using strategies to stop misbehavior in classroom

In my teaching practice, I always face the challenge of student management and coping with
student misbehavior. There are a lot of strategies that I have used in my classroom. When dealing
with real life teaching challenges. I believe that using classroom managements through teaching
will help the teacher to control the class and save the class time.
I prepare myself before starting the school time and believes in myself. Furthermore, I take notes
and try to know what my students need to learn. Moreover, I plan a timeline for my teaching to
keep everything organized in classroom. In addition I always keep remind myself that Im in
charge of my classroom (Yisrael, 2012).
I use visual cues strategies to stop students misbehaving, which means when a student do
misbehaving while Im explaining the lesson, I look to his eyes briefly to send eyes massage
means you have to stop misbehaving and be attention with me (Henley, 2010). As well as, I use
increased Teacher Proximity, which mean when a students talk or move a lot I moving to stand
near him and said directly to stop what he doing and I staying a bit until being sure that he
reserving my message (Henley, 2010).
On other hand there are some strategies, which I learn it from my teacher in college and I always
use it in my classroom. Which is, when all students starting misbehaving and be noisy or when

they feel sleepy, I stand in front of the student. I use visual cues strategy, and ask students to do
some actions such as; stand up, jump 3 times and clap your hands 2 times. This strategy makes
students being attention with me in the classroom. This method is suites for primary students
whaich are from grade 1 until grade 5.

Strategies for Effective Lesson Planning

Lesson plan is the instructors road map of what students need to learn and how it will be done
effectively during the class time (Springer & Persiani, 2012).
So my problem is, how I can prepare an effective lesson plan for my students that includes
appropriate learning activities and develop strategies. For that I start to do my plan step by step
to get a complete lesson plan.
Firstly I start with learning objectives, which mean what I want from students to achieve in the
end of the class. In addition to be more specific, I wrote what I need from student to learn from
this lesson, what do I want them to understand and be able to do at the end of class and what do I
want them to take away from this particular lesson (Reigeluth, 1987).
Secondly develop introduction, which mean how I will start my lesson. Actually, I put different
ideas for introduction such as; short video clip, practical application, probing question, and
review for the previous lesson (Reigeluth, 1987).
Thirdly I plan for the specific learning activities, which is the main body of the lesson. In real, I
ask myself some questions can help me to prepare the activities such as; what will I do to explain
the topic, how I will illustrate the topic in a different way, how can I engage students in the topic
and which example can I use to let students understand the lesson (Reigeluth, 1987).

Finally, I apply a plan to check students understanding, for example I ask students some
reviewing questions to check their understanding and I let them to answer a worksheet and check
their understanding.

References:

Henley, M. (2010). Classroom management: A proactive approach (2nd ed.). Boston:

Pearson.

Reigeluth, C. M. (1987). Instructional theories in action: Lessons illustrating selected

theories and models. Hillsdale, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates.

Springer, S., & Persiani-Becker, K. (2012). The organized teacher's lesson planner. New
York, NY ; London: McGraw-Hill.

Yisrael, S. B., & Coutts MyiLibrary. (2012). Classroom management: A guide for urban
schools teachers. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.