Classroom management sample plan

Teachers all of the time are thinking about how to improve their teaching and how to deal with classroom management. With today' society, teachers must be up-to-day regarding methods, approaches and new teaching techniques to enhance students in the process of learning. Having a CM plan is a  helpful tool to see what is working good enough in the classroom and isn't.

Look the following personal classroom management sample plan.

My Personal Classroom

Management Plan

Level: intermediate

Teaching Goal(s) or Objective(s):

- Enhance student's collaborative work through individual and group work

- Ensure meaningful content useful in real life.

CLASSROOM ORGANIZATION

Classroom Environment

Draw or describe your room arrangement.

-All desks are in spacious rows facing the board and making like an inverse V. Teacher’s desk is next to the whiteboard and in the back there are two desks of students’ work. 

 

Record class motto you are planning to use

- It’s okay to not know, but is not okay to not try!

-What you dream you can achieve!

- Hand in hand together we can!

Classroom Operation

Class Rules

1.Respect yourself and the others

2. Don't laugh to other's mistakes, help them until they get it right

3.Be patient

4. Don't scream inside the classroom

5.Ask questions if you have doubts

Source: Copyright © 2006 by Corwin Press. All rights reserved. Reprinted from Planning Classroom Management,2nd edition, by Karen Bosch. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, www.corwinpress.com. Reproduction authorized only for the local school site or nonprofit organization that has purchased this book.

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My Personal Classroom

Management Plan

Class routines and procedures

- Answer the question of the day

- Strengthening students’ brain through mental games, like crosswords, puzzles related to the lesson. 

Class consequences

1. Warning

2. Be written in a notebook of "Misbehaving record" to lose points at the end of the lesson.

3. Assign more homework

4. Phone call to a parent

5. Stern eye contact

Class incentives

- High fives

- Give a “Two-Feast hours" once in a month to share snacks, adventures, watch a movie and so on with others

- Extra points

- A day without homework

Class cues

- Call the student’s name

- beat the board with the blackboard eraser

- Stay quiet until the disruptive issue finishes

-   hand raised

Source: Copyright © 2006 by Corwin Press. All rights reserved. Reprinted from Planning Classroom Management,2nd edition, by Karen Bosch. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, www.corwinpress.com. Reproduction authorized only for the local school site or nonprofit organization that has purchased this book.

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My Personal Classroom

Management Plan

INSTRUCTION

Lessons

Instructional strategies

- Role-playing

- Colorful visual aids to motivate students

-Lectures and conferences

 -scaffolding process

Individualized instructional strategies

- Offer multiple assignments

- Assign real life cases or conflicts for later discussion.

Assessment strategies

- A short-home quiz after each unit or topic

- Peer-review

- A short summary with their own words

Questioning strategies

- Encourage students to think about the topic

Responses to students:

When a student gives a correct answer

- Great!

                -  perfect!

-You’re right!

When a student gives a partially correct answer

- You are close!

- Explain your thinking!

When a student gives an incorrect answer

                - solicit help from the class

        - keep on trying!

Source: Copyright © 2006 by Corwin Press. All rights reserved. Reprinted from Planning Classroom Management, 2nd edition, by Karen Bosch. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, www.corwinpress.com. Reproduction authorized only for the local school site or nonprofit organization that has purchased this book.

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My Personal Classroom

Management Plan

Effective Teaching Practices

Building positive relationships:

Between teacher and students

- Be passionate when teaching

-Get to know them

- Be truthful

Among classmates

-  Accept suggestions

- Be polite

- Be fair

With parents

        -Be firm

        -Be honest

        -Provide students’ progress

Strategies to develop student social skills

- Create virtual environments

- Lead by example

Strategies to develop student problem-solving and decision-making skills

                -Ask students what they should have done

        -Let students to make decisions

        - Students analyze the results of each solution

Preventive discipline strategies

- Handle problems immediately

        - teach students how to meet their needs without disrupting others in the class

Classroom technology plan

                - use the internet and email

        -podcasts

       

Source: Copyright © 2006 by Corwin Press. All rights reserved. Reprinted from Planning Classroom Management, 2nd edition, by Karen Bosch. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, www.corwinpress.com. Reproduction authorized only for the local school site or nonprofit organization that has purchased this book.

Figure 5.1 (Continued)

My Personal Classroom

Management Plan

EVALUATION

Grading Scheme

Homework policy

-Give homework assignments to prepare students for the test. Quizzes are completed at home after, students bring them to class for corrections.  For a well-done and complete homework students win an extra point. Tests are not too long less for memorize.

Progress reports

-Students and parents receive reports during each grading unit. 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Plans for improvement

Through reflective recall

-Keep track on books I read, movies or any other experience

Through journal writing

-Have conversation with famous people

Through videotaping

-Record classroom activities to analyze the strategies used and improve them.

-Boost technology skills learning about hardware and software

Through mentorship

                - Attend with my colleagues to a mentor

Through school inservices, college courses, and conferences

                -Continue attending to courses for developing teaching skills and be up to date.