Running Head: Personal Philosophy

TED 626: Classroom Management

Personal Philosophy

Chris Gomez

Professor England

National University

June 7, 2016
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Discipline Overall Goal or Beliefs about Teachers Role

Model Purpose Behavior in the Classroom
Example: To get students to Teachers have a right to To take charge and be
Canter and Canters choose to conduct teach and students have a assertive (not aggressive,
Assertive Discipline themselves properly. right to learn without hostile or permissive);
being interrupted by clearly confidently and
misbehavior. consistently express and
model class expectations.
Example: Classrooms with
Color-Card Flip Chart.

Colorosos Winning at To give students a Students should have
teaching . . . without responsibility,
beating your kids consequence, and
opportunity.
Teachers should give
responsibility and
decisions when it comes to
their misbehavior.
students a responsibility
when dealing with
punishment and
consequence by: asking
students what they did
wrong, give them
ownership, give them
ways to resolve it, and
keep their dignity in tack.

Curwin and Mindlers To create a preventative Students today are more To always treat students
Positive Prevention Model classroom climate that oppositional, confrontive,
counters aggression, and angry. These
hostility and violence. behaviors can spill into the
classroom and create a
negative and stressful
environment. Teachers can
overcome, prevent, and
deescalate these behaviors
through effective
strategies.
with dignity, make
responsibility more
important than obedience,
model and teach the
behaviors you expect, and
make sure your discipline
strategies are practical.

Gossens Restitution To enable students to By looking at the Speak to students in a

Model strengthen themselves by questions students ask
repairing their mistakes. about their behaviors can
allow you to understand
the reasoning behind their
behaviors.
respectful manner, allow
students an opportunity to
repair their mistakes,
establish a social contract,
and ask questions such as:
Could you have done
worse?

Kagen and Scotts Win- To prevent and deal Classroom disruptions can Get on the same side and
Win Discipline Model effectively with all be prevented if the proper point of view with
classroom disruptions. win-win procedures are in students, collaborate
place. together for solutions, and
require students to learn
responsibility.
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Reflection

My own beliefs about classroom management and discipline is that it is extremely

important to implement the two in the classroom in order to create a positive environment that is

conducive to both learning and discipline. Without the presence of classroom management and

discipline, teachers will struggle to teach effectively and students will struggle to learn

effectively (Marzano, 2003). As a new teacher I understand the importance of this as well as an

understanding that it will be a constant learning process for myself. I feel that in order to

effectively implement the two in the classroom teachers must establish rules and expectations

first, prior to tackling academics, and then continue to practice and enforce these expectations

throughout the year. When it comes to discipline, this is both important and challenging for

teachers and schools. According to Marzano (2003), a lack of discipline is the most serious

problem facing schools today. I believe that while discipline is important, it is more important

to implement effective discipline in the classroom. I strongly believe that rather than being quick

to discipline or threaten students with discipline, teachers must first talk with students and allow

for students to correct and learn from their mistakes.

For my own management and discipline system, my goal is to create a positive and safe

learning environment for students. In order for my classroom to get to this point, I will first have

to establish guidelines and expectations for students in my classroom. Here, my goal is to keep

things simple yet efficient. I will have to carefully select these guidelines and expectations and

keep them minimal, only around seven rules altogether. (Marzano, 2003) Another goal I wish to

implement in the classroom is to devote more attention and recognition to students who exhibit

positive behaviors and academic achievements instead of the alternative where more attention is

given to discipline students and those students who usually have exemplary behavior, receive
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little to no positive feedback. One way to implement this is by practicing, catching a student

being good. (Marzano, 2003) With this comes a great opportunity to reward students of their

great behavior which can be even be achieved through a simple thank you or good job and in

return, students will see that their good behavior is recognized by the teacher and continue to

maintain that behavior.

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Reference

Marzano, Robert J. (2003) . Classroom Management that Works: Research-Based Strategies for

Every Teacher. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum

Development.