Monday, November 3, 2008
Community in our classrooms
It is very important to create a community in our classrooms. Student will fell more comfortable in this type of classroom setting making them more incline to participate in class activities. As a teacher is important to decide how you want your classroom set up before the first day of school. Once you start school you should involve the children into the classroom community. You should incorporate the students thoughts into the process of designing your classroom to make them feel that it is there community not just a classroom. I really enjoyed look at the website last week. I thought that the classroom setup was definitely that of a community and that all of the students were involved in the community setup. It is also a very good idea to incorporate real life situations into the classroom. I thought it was a great idea to have spending money and other real life situations inside the classroom.
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I agree it is very important to decide how to set up your classroom. This can help give the students a sense of warmth, when the classroom setup is well planned out. I also agree that it is great to add in real life situations. The website was a great tool for this.
This idea of setting up your classroom as a community is a smart way to start the year off with your students. It creates children to feel like they helped to build their own classroom together. I like the fact that the students get to have a say in designing the class which only helps fosters the idea of community in the class. Real life situations are also a smart idea to incorporate in the class. Students will one day be in the real world and need to know how to do certain everyday things in life. It is important that we teach them about this as early as possible to prepare them for the years to come.
I definately find many community building aspects on that website for Mrs. Newingham. When we take the time early in the year to address classroom management through community building, respect grows.
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