Blog 3: A Note of Thanks and Support

Thank you guys so much for supporting me with my Advocacy Plan. I enjoyed reading some of my peers responses and I really learned a lot throughout this quarter. Also, thanks from my peers for letting me know how many pages we should need for last paper and offer me great advice to help improve my final project.  This would help me understand the importance of safety of the classroom, review models and procedures to create a better learning environment for this school education.  It’s also important to have organized instruction to optimize student learning, create lessons used for group management, development of student social skills and self-regulation, customized interventions to assist with specific student behavior problems and a multi-tiered system of management (APA p.5-7).  The key is to create build classroom relationships and improve the safety in the classroom.

Reference:
APA. (2013). Classroom Management. Washington:D.C. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/education/k12/classroom-mgmt.aspx?item=6

Blog 2: Enlisting and Providing Support.

The questions to ask to my colleagues is how long is the presentation and how long are the last two papers for Application 4 and 5?  My information that I was seeking is to work on the impact of student achievement regarding curriculum, assessment, staff collegiality and community involvement (ASCD & Marzano, 2003a).   The most important learning goals is to establish unit of instruction, provide feedback on those goals, continually and systematically revisiting the goals and providing summative feedback regarding the goals (ASCD).  These ideas would improve children's behaviors and other emotional/physical developments.  

The information that I found helpful and insightful is learning the categories of High-Needs Students.  This would help me figure out more about it's meaning, what's the common characteristics and offer suggestions to improve children's behaviors.  I found information about the estimate of children's academic learning.  In the state, there's 1,080 hours, in attended time, three's 1,020 of time minus days absent, in available time, there's 816 of times minus the recess. lunch, transitions and etc., in academic time, there's 652, in actual academic time, there's 522, in engaged time, there's 417, in productive time, there's 333 (Sadker & Zittleman p. 358).  I found this information interesting because I have noticed that there's not enough productive time, engaged time and academic time and should offer more time to improve their academic achievement.   My best strategy is to offer them strategies that would work for the child's needs. This is the only way to have a well-managed classroom. 

Another helpful and insightful information is to understand the general recommendations of the do's and don't's of classroom management.  The steps is to create classroom lessons and materials that interest students, ensure that there is a match between student's skills and classroom instructional level, develop home-school partnerships though student learning and behavior can be met, teach students the skills that they need to meet classroom expectations, develop a statement explaining the purpose of classroom management, establish procedures of positive behaviors, establish procedures for discouraging problem behaviors, and and establish the student's process and keeping records.  I would also add a few don'ts that the school shouldn't use in the classroom.  They are not to use vague rules, have the rules that you are unwilling to enforce, don't ignore student behaviors that violate school and classroom rules, don't engage in ambiguous or inconsistent treatment of misbehaviors and do not use corporal punishment (APA).  I hope with all these strategies, this would make a difference in improving my advocacy plan.

References:

APA. (2013). Classroom Management. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/education/k12/classroom-mgmt.aspx?item=2

Achievement First. (1999-2013). Achievement First Public Charter Schools. Retrieved from http://www.achievementfirst.org/resources/login/

ASCD. (2010-2013). Educational Leadership: Building Classroom Relationships: The Key to the Classroom Management. Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/sept03/vol61/num01/The-Key-to-Classroom-Management.aspx        

Miller Sadker, David, & Zittleman, Karen R. (2012). Teachers, Schools, and Society: A Brief Introduction to Education. 3rd Edition. New York, NY: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.  

Blog 1: My Personal Advocacy Journal.

The one thing that inspire me about my advocacy plan is working with the professionals about help them create strategies that would improve classroom management.  The things that excites me are researching about management behaviors and safety, finding strategies that would work for the child's needs and interacting with the teachers and children while analyzing my plan to engage in my in my advocacy plan.  Research as shown that teacher's action in their classrooms have twice the impact on student achievement as do school policies regarding curriculum, assessment, staff collegiality and community involvement (Marzano, 2003a & ASCD).  It's important to stay on every situation and hope for a change in the social classroom environment.  

The biggest challenges is to figure out each child main causes of their behaviors and making sure that the parents get involve in the child's situation. I really hope to make a difference in changes of representing my improvement plan.  I also hope that they understand the reasons and help build a positive reinforcement in the classroom.  The most effective way of helping parents overcome these situation is to talking them to them individually and discuss ways to help them understand the importance of safety. This would establish clear expectation and consequences, learning goals, and exhibit assertive behaviors throughout the each classrooms. The ways to encourage others in my advocacy plan is to offer reinforcement strategies to identity the appropriate behaviors used to create awareness in children's future learning.  

Reference:

ASCD. (2010-2013). Educational Leadership: Building Classroom Relationships: The Key to the Classroom Management. Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/sept03/vol61/num01/The-Key-to-Classroom-Management.aspx

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