Classroom Management

Today in class we watched a video on the right way versus the wrong way to handle your classroom. I feel the video gave some good tips on how to prevent your classroom from getting out of hand. The biggest thing that I grasped fromt he video as being useful was having a friendly/joking attitude. I feel when you are always yelling at your students the yelling becomes not as affective because thats all they know. When you have a friendly personality you are allowing your students to respect you not only as a teacher but as a person who has emotions and if they were to get out of hand and disappoint you they may care knowing their normally happy teacher be somewhat upset with their actions. I also like that having this attitude allows the students to have a little flexability...I mean afterall we were all students at one point and sometimes you just get antsy!! This friendliness and joking makes it easier to maybe make a point to lightly discipline a student in a joking manner but still getting the point across. I have learned through experiences in many classes that the teachers you aren't to tyrannical have more success in classroom management because the students feel like the teacher's care about them and are not always out to get them into trouble.

A Little About Me

Hey everyone!!! So here is alittle introduction about myself...my name is Kris and I am a junior in college. I am originally from the suburban state of PA but I received a softball scholarship to a college in NJ! I have never experienced the city life until I arrived at school. It was an amazing time of my life exploring a different aspect of the world, especially coming from a very small town with only farms in sight. Since my freshman year I feel I have become a more diverse and open-minded person. I have learned so many things by coming and experiencing the college life, it has opened my eyes to many new things. I am now in my second semester of my junior year and pretty soon will be graduating next spring! Hopefully I will be able to use the knowledge I have received from my college education and be able to make a difference in the lives of young adolescents as a teacher/mentor. I will not only have my students learn to their fullest capacity but my goal is to make learning fun! I want the students to walk into my classroom excited knowing the class will be educational as well as extremely intriguing, capturing every students multiple intelligences.