Topic: Micro elements of CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

Group discussion

06.10.2020.

Topic: Micro elements of CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

• Azeez: Classroom management can be considered as puplil s management in the school, family management in family and as a whole people s management in community/society....

• Leader. Ms. Leena Rai Kalra UNV: Effective classroom management  requires:

^Self management

^Self discipline

^Thorough knowledge of the subject

^ Class control and command 

^Facilitator

^Teacher as receiver

^Experimenting and creative

^Environment friendly

^Teach oriented

^Effective methodology

• Mrs. Suman‪ Purohit Das UNV: Classroom Management is

1. Effective discipline

2. Being prepared for class

3. Motivating learners

4. Increasing appropriate behaviour of students

5. Providing or creating safe learning environment

6. Building students self esteem

7. Being creative and imaginative in daily lessons

8. Ensuring the right climate for learning to occur

9. Preparing students for future life

• AZEEZ: Let me put forward my views on classroom management.

Classroom management is not an activity, it is an one time investment. It goes for the whole year. 

It is not the process or method of teaching. Teaching is an activity. In order to get the activitity accelerated, we should create a conducive environment for its products, that's learning.

Teaching methodology and academic outcomes may help the classroom engaged. Keeping the classroom in silence and we'll disciplined are the results of a teacher's, as I said earlier, an investment.

Other than that,  classroom management is not of maintaining human resources {Teachers}, but to maintain human reservoirs {Students}.

Answer to the following questions are the classroom management:

•Does this help one in honing leadership skills? •Does it involve mindset transformation? 

•Is it skill to be acquired or a mindset/thought-process to be imbibed? 

•Does enable a happy learning environment? 

•Is it a one-time investment? 

•Does it yield recurring dividends? 

•Is it viable given that a teacher gets a new class of students every year? 

Therefore what should done for the effective and inexpensive classroom management at micro level.

And what are the micro elements required for a better understanding of the classroom management?

• Question. Dr. Dalal: A teacher delivers best when...?

• Ans. AZEEZ: When teaching connect between three vertices of a triangle- soul of the teacher, souls of the students and the soul of the subject (aesthetics).

The teacher and taught enjoys.

As classroom teacher, as a family designer, and people leader,...

Because Kids are born

Philosophers, they ask very deep questions and they bring in amazing theories or explanations involving lateral connections. 

If a teacher can capture value back from the classroom, the teacher would be evolving a deeper philosophical understanding of various domains. 

Once a teacher learns to learn, he/she can effortlessly pick up multiple areas, be it family or society. But the source is from the classroom, through creative questioning  of kids.

• AZEEZ: Let's look at the micro-elements in a classroom.

1. Ensuring that students have their textbook or notebook or both open. 

2. Making sure kids writing tools are working enough.

3. Kids tend to talk to each other while the teacher is in the classroom. Parallel noises can affect the concentration level and the intensity of the discussion. This happens even more when the teacher provokes kids to think, they feel like discussing with their peers. Make them to know the importance of listening.

4. Discipline issues can be handled lot more gracefully.

5. Facial expressions and body language ensure better engagement in the classroom.

Why do this?

Teaching can be a great opportunity to hone leadership skills within. Managing 20-45 young learners develops the following core-management skills which can be transferred into several other industries such as family and friends and colleagues and clients and customers and employees and alumni association and parents and society.

• Mr. Nahid Raza: Questioning, listening to children, accepting their answers, integrating maximum children, writing topic on greenboard, mention date, sub topic, margins, making children write on greenboard

• Mr. S.C. Vohra: Classroom management is a spontaneous activity. In fact , it’s healthy, energetic, passionate classroom interaction which automatically glides to natural management of students and available infrastructure. A teacher who half heartedly enters the classroom with a lethargic gait remains miles away from effective CR management. Teachers who enter the classroom with a proper lesson plan with a hundred percent clarity of mind where smart board or other AV aids are to be used needn’t bother about CR management. He/ she mixes up with the students as milk to water and the next day finds the students curiously waiting for him / her. Students wish h/er as many times as they come across. My firm belief is that it’s an inborn quality. It’s difficult to make one an effective classroom manager without a complete transmogrification of his/her personality. No amount of external factors can make one an effective manager until n unless one is enthused with a burning desire to make the students better learners , better performers and better human beings. Good teaching should come as naturally as the buds on a tree otherwise all the Teachers training institutions put together can’t produce even a single effective classroom manager.

• Mrs. Madhumita Jana: Classroom Management is to create an ideal learning environment for the teacher as well as the students. In order to learn effectively, we need to utilise proper organisational skills which may not be uniform for all teachers. Classroom Management has to change depending on the grade, students, subject and concept.

A teacher is the final authority for making all decisions in a classroom. He or she is just like a Quiz master who always lays down the rules of the game at the start. A teacher should enforce the rules consistently to have a  meaningful and effective learning atmosphere in the class. If the rules are laid down properly an active and noisy class also may not be termed as indiisciplined and disorganised. An active and interactive class is always better than a vey silent and passive class.

Definitely , ' Effective Classroom Management ' is a must . Finally a touch of humour in our teaching pattern adds lustre and excitement to the learning as well as a beautiful rapport and belongingness to the teacher.

• Leader Ms. Leena Rai: It is to deliver everything in 40 min the right dose of knowledge,ethics, survival strategies but with everyone's passion and interest to learn and relearn ,think and plan for future through a wider vision ,to let every single participant present there in the class physically and mentally where participation of every child should be mandatory and more of the stress in expression of thinking and views

• Dr Sekar Seenivasan: True. The teacher should be both physically,mentally and academically challenging to meet your vision.

• Mr. Nahid Raza: The most crucial driving factor in edu is class. Child centred and activity based learning classes could transform and bring about true and relevant skills required. When we dare to lead classes through children in place of simply managing can change the perception and worldview.

• Dr Sekar Seenivasan: Good thinking . This will materialize with proper tools of instruction as well as follow up measures. Today's Children are hetrerogenious and demand more

Mr. S.C. Vohra: I feel the very word “management “ makes it too technical a thing to be learnt through rule books or management institutions. In fact , managing children reduces the children to lifeless objects, not as unique creations of God ready to explore the vast world with sparkling innocent eyes. A good teacher can see an ocean of questions and curiosities in the minds of young learners by just peeping into their eyes. They need to be embraced with love and care recollecting and reliving ones own childhood days. Children living in different places viz rural, urban , metropolitan need to be handled differently keeping in mind their socio- economic background. Therefore, no “ one size fits all “ approach works effectively in all situations. Unbridled  and unconditional LOVE is the only cementing factor leading towards a natural bonding between the teacher and the taught. A good teacher explores the whole world of knowledge to make his/ her students superb human beings filled with the milk of human kindness. Just as even an uneducated, unlettered mother knows the needs of her child and techniques to keep him/ her close to her heart, a good teacher even with an average subject knowledge  too knows this art. This art is beyond the realm of books and trainings.

• Mrs. Pooja Hanji: Good afternoon dignitaries. Let me forward my views.

A teacher plays a multiple role in the classroom.  He /She is a facilitator, counselor, friend, motivator and above all a role model for the young students. Great teachers need to know  his/her students. It's all very well to make generalizations but one size does not fit all. Know what students' needs are. Know how best to motivate them to learn. The tools will always change, as will the nature of students. The responsibilities of a teacher increases as he has to rise up to the occasion. He has to know all the aspects of a knowledge transfer process.

The irony of our teaching system is that many teachers are 'Student Centric' or 'Cirriculum Centric ', but for a few exceptions. 

They have to move beyond a conventional constrained teaching system and learning. How can the teachers have a teaching style which suits all learners?

To exploit student's intelligence is one of the purposes of education and allowing every student to learn effectively, think,articulate and apply this knowledge is of prime importance. 

Many enthusiastic teachers are using NLP and MIT which are found to be very effective. Blood groups are used to learn behavioral patterns in teachers and students.

Research shows that interventions of pedagogical tools like humor,anecdotes, multilingual instructions,brain attuned types, differentiated instructions and e-learning  and incorporating the auditory ,visual and kinesthetic reinforcement aspects have tremendous positive effect on the learn ability.

An effective teacher has to KNOW! Know what?

*Know yourself. 

*Know your stuff.

*Know whom you are stuffing  ie preparing

      @ Student profile

      @ Reinforcement Learning Teaching Styles

     @ Brain attune types

     @ Learning and teaching style based onblood groups 

    @ Multiple intelligence and learning traits 

* Know what you are going to stuff

*Know where you are going to stuff

* Know how you are going to stuff ie 

  @ How do you start a session?

  @ How do you progress?

     _ Methods of teaching

     _ Interventions in teaching

     _ Humor in teaching

     _ Teaching with anecdotes

     _ Adotpting multilingual instructions 

     _ Music in the classroom 

     _ Using Total Learning Methodology 

   @ How do you end a session?

* Know when they are stuffed.

Lastly I believe that teachers are inevitable part and the best way to impart knowledge is to show love.

• Mrs. Phani Kumari: Well said .Micro  level teaching is the pivot for induction of the conceptualized teaching, where the inquisitiveness of each  student is tapped.

• Mrs. Avantika Walia: Classroom Management is truly an art to carry the teaching-learning process at its optimum level.  

Teachers need to be a facilitator, who could create a positive environment for learners.

The strategies taught about the Classroom Management needs a different flare of practical implementations.

It is not a one time investment....with the changing world, highly demanding learners, information available with just a click of the button, active curriculum....it needs continuous efforts by teachers not only to enhance their skills but also to implement new techniques to create a Balanced and Productive Classroom Management.

• Mrs. Phani Kumari: Taking life situation and day to day happenings are related to the concept dealt. Pose various question and elicit responses from students. Here a teacher should give space to all and appreciate the effort of the students,there by boosting the morale of the children.

 The new system of education is revolutionizing tge methodalogy of teaching. The teachers have to brush up tge current happenings in all fields and incorporate the same with the relavant topics to be taught.

• Mrs. Aruna singh: Teaching is 70% preparation and 30% teaching! So the teacher really has to know the flow of delivery. 

1. Read the chapter thoroughly yourself and then decide the methodology you want to use to deliver the topic.

2. Preparation for the presentation.

3. What Hands on activity will be used?

4. Can we have a case study?

5. What type of research can be involved?

6. How can children do presentations?

7. Relate to real life .

8. Can the students think of ideas to solve problems?

9. What methods are going to be used for evaluation?

So the whole concept has to delivered in. Child centric approach. It is very easy to teach straight ,give notes or write the question answers and ask the students to mug up! 

Today we have to prepare our children for critical thinking,decision making,be independent and give solutions to the problems that are there.

• Mrs. Christina Rajeev Martin: We are all created just like the bees and flies with our own purpose of fulfilling our responsibilities. Insects and animals have they own natural instincts that cause them to carry out natures duty and balance nature naturally. That's indeed miraculous.

If we notice, we humans though of an higher intellect have to be taught, have to be made to understand, have to make realize, try to convince logically, reason out things to help balance nature which is not at all necessary in the case of animals and insects..But when it comes to human beings education plays a major part which paves way to creating a sence of responsibility in humans or else not every man is able to use his natural instincts to survive and take care of the universe..Its sad though being called the highest race  yet we need to be educated regarding our environment and nature..Thus these two examples of God's creation is an eye opener for all...

• Mrs. Manju Saxena: First and foremost is creating pleasant and conducive environment where learners enjoy learning ,in effortless natural way .There should be perfect rapport between both teacher and the taught so that pupil feel free to put their queries, curiosity etc.It requires a lot of patience on the part of the teacher to listen and answer the questions as children r very curious to know more and more for there is a wide new world to understand before them .This pious relationship of teacher and taught is based on love .... I guess it will help in other features of  classroom management. If done at classroom  level the community, the society will have self disciplined , spiritually strong people not indulging in negative acts.

• Mrs. Ishrat Tabassum UNV: “Class room management in an art“. Agree 100% Alhamdulillah,   It’s not an easy task. A  teacher  is  a second mother to a child and  the nature of teacher should be soft, patient, kind and polite and the main quality of a teacher should be a Good listener first, then a good observer and a good communicator because after observing them and their behaviour, you can understand their mentality and it will become easier to interact and communicate with them, Being friendly with children will make the bond very strong so that they feel comfortable in the classroom, every teacher should built the environment of her classroom very pleasant, Disciplined and well maintained so that the children will feel that they are in safe hands and that trust is very important,  A teacher’s responsibility is to  involve the children in  some creative activities, giving every day a new task, If you teach them any topic, let them question you, Make them Independent, creative and motivate them for classroom activities, group discussions, recitation competitions. A Teacher should get involved in each and every activity so that children will enjoy and become excited and curious for their next class. Let them think, and take the action, let them initiate, let them move,  you should act like their back bone. By guiding, supporting and motivating them. Most Importantly A teacher should say “our “ classroom, not “my“ classroom, the word “our” makes a difference, that one  word will make the children feel like it’s their own, so every word that the teacher spoke should be very polite, it will leave a lot of impact on their little minds, we have Different kind of learners in our classroom, ie. some are kinesthetic, auditory, visual, keeping that in mind we should prepare our topic or lesson plan accordingly, now in this new era, it’s not about how we teach them, the challenge is how they will learn, adapt those skill and teach the way they learn.  In my view classroom environment should look like second home for a child.

• Mrs. Sweta Srivastava: The hardware and software approach both are equally important in dealing with students.  Knowing Behaviour issues, behaviour patterns make a teacher more predictable in dealing with children's reaction.  A Teacher can become more confident if he knows the heart and soul of his students rather than merely knowing their academic achievements..

Technology is now the next genere.... Incorporation of Technology in  education and educational technology ..both the ways should be used as a valid tool to evaluate a child.