Group Eight Presentation

They started of  talking about the importance of classroom management.Ways you can help manage the class is to use posters to display rules clearly. A positive learning environment is very important to the students learning, time management is a big part of that. The group shared a website with us called daily cafe, this website includes different ideas for setting up a class room, and classroom ideas to avoid problems like, everyone shares supplies. The teacher's role in the learning environment is another thing that is important to being an effective teacher. It is important that the children know that you care about them.  They showed us an activity that helps you evaluate what kind of learning style your students may be by classifying them under colors. She interviewed a teacher and that gave her lots of advice for becoming a new teacher. She gave her some do's and don't of first year teaching. Parental/ guardian involvement allows the child to connect school and home. Children want to please their parents, there is a higher graduation rate with children who's parents are involved in their schooling. Barriers to consider with parent/ teacher involvement are: economic, cultural, and language. Kathy added in to this that you should never ask the child to be the translator between you and the teacher. An idea for teachers to better communicate with the parents is to make a website and update it frequently. The last part of their presentation is misbehavior intervention, effective types of intervention is awareness, dignity, consistency and communication.