Create a learning environment that fosters active engagement, self-motivation, and positive social interaction by understanding individual and group behavior.
In my opinion this standard is one of the most important. If the teacher does not create a positive learning environment with proper classroom management and student interaction, than a teacher cannot properly teach. The teacher should create an environment that promotes student engagement in the lessons and classroom activities. If the students don’t feel like they are part of the class than they will lose interest in learning. A good idea for making the students feel like they are part of the class is by having a routine that happens everyday and give students jobs (that rotate every week or two). The teacher should also have proper classroom management which includes following through on threats, establishing that you are the authority figure and you won’t let the students walk all over you. If the teacher doesn’t have control of the students at the beginning of the year than the teacher will never gain control of the students. I will do my best to follow these ideas when I have my own classroom.
In my experiences, a teacher that has good classroom management and a positive learning environment has the respect of and control over the students in the classroom. In high school I had a teacher that never followed through on the threats she gave students and I feel this caused the students in the class to not respect her as they should have. The students would rarely pay attention and I feel this was because her lessons were not planned out well. However, this type of classroom was not a constant in my educational career, I also have had positive experiences as well. I have had teachers that would follow through with threats and have well planned lessons and treated the students with respect and having been in both classrooms I have noticed that the teacher with a positive learning environment had the more well behaved students.
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