Reflection 8 the four components of classroom management burns quote

I believe it is the responsibility of teachers to provide for their students a safe and caring learning environment. Students should feel comfortable and not threatened when they come into a classroom to learn. I feel it is important to make it known to your students that mistreating their peers, verbally, physically, or emotionally will not be tolerated. A good teacher will manage and control the physical space, resources, time, and ambience of their classrooms from the beginning of the year until the end of the year. I don’t know which of the four is the most important, but I do feel that you have to begin with the physical space of the classroom that you teach in. The book says that your choices in arranging the physical space allow you to use it to enact your convictions about how students learn and about good teaching. I agree with that statement because if I had to set up my own classroom, I would arrange it in a way so that students could interact with each other and also feel comfortable in their own space. As an intervention specialist, I would have smaller classes, so I would carefully space the desks out in a semi circle with me in the middle, that way the students don’t have anyone behind them and they are all looking at me, and not at the back of a classmates head. I would also try to limit other distractions in my room, and try to provide helpful, organized bulletin boards in which students could know what is going on before we start or end the day. For example, I would have a class agenda bulletin board and also a homework bulletin board.
The book says that managing a classroom means managing all the stuff, to use a technical term that inevitably goes along with teaching. When I walk into a classroom, one of the first things I notice is the stuff! There are so many technological and other media that are now incorporated into classrooms. As a teacher, I would try to incorporate the resources into my lesson plans whenever I get the opportunity to do so. I would teach with a smart board if I could, and I would teach with PowerPoint, or using the computer in another way. I also would try to get students interested in using the resources themselves, especially with the smart board, which can really get students excited. In addition to technological resources, I would also use other materials that I felt would be beneficial to my students.
The book says that your central task as a teacher is to start with the students and meld a group of individuals without ground or goals into a classroom community. I feel that managing the ambience of the room is another way of saying “setting the tone” for the classroom. My tone would best be described by MacGregor’s quote because the tone for me would be to provide “social and intellectual environment in which students can learn”. My translation is providing an environment in which students feel comfortable and confident to learn. Feeling comfortable and confident means not fearing being hurt physically, emotionally, or verbally by their peers, and expecting to get respect and sensitivity from their teacher.
The book says that using your time as gold means that you need to maximize the time your students spend engaged in learning and minimize the time they spend in other ways in your classroom. In my classroom I would have an agenda bulletin board, in which I would have the day’s plans on it. That way the students know that this is what I expect of them for this class period. I would hold myself accountable also because I would need to schedule the class accordingly.