Classroom Management Portfolio

Classroom Management 4375

Hattie Hopper

University of Houston
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Introduction

The overview of this portfolio is about what classroom management style, personal

beliefs, classroom set up, and how I want to engage/ motivate my future second grade class. I

will discuss my own personal philosophy, classroom policies, and classroom environment. The

specific content areas in which I would love to teach are math and science. I love that you can

come up with fun and creative lesson plans for math and science that really engage all students

when it comes to the learning outcomes. This project is helping figure out what type of

classroom management style I would like to use with my future student even though I cannot yet

implement these practices just yet. It is also to help me grasp the understanding that even if you

are game day ready you are not all ways prepared real fourth quarter with one minute left on the

clock type of thing. Maslow theory of needs was what I was thinking about the how time I was

writing this and how being involved with my students lives from knowing their needs or

knowing what they need to become a better student. I also used Canter and Carter as well as

Fredic Jones for assertive discipline and positive classroom management.

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Philosophy Statement

For my own classroom management philosophy, I believe that my students should feel

that they are involved with everything that we do. Meaning from individual assignments to group

work, everyone is either helping one another or trying to see everyone’s view point on an

assignment. Everyone in my classroom is a part of the community that we build inside our

classroom and outside of it as well. Their own voices are to be heard when it comes to our

community. I also want my future students to know that there are certain expectations for their

behavior. I need them to know that how we act is a reflection of our community and that we

should always be respectful of others inside and outside of our community.

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First Day’s Ms. Hattie’s Third Grade

7:30-7:40 Welcome the class at the front door/ take roll. Instruct the class to put their

things away into the cubbies and then meet for morning group.

7:40-8:15 Discuss how proud of all of them to have made it to the third grade and what

their expectations are for the third grade. I will go over my top five rules are for our classroom

and then at the end of the day we as a class will come up with our own of what we want our

classroom to look like, act like and feel like. Play the modeling game how I want the students to

enter the classroom, put up their backpacks, line up and our voice levels in the classroom and

outside of the classroom. Have a class warm up reflect about their summer vacation. (Top five

rules: be kind to everyone, do not be afraid to tell me what is wrong, no talking while I am

talking, do not harm anyone, and last but not least welcome new ideas.)

8:15- 8:25 Have the class demonstrate what a line looks like and how to act within the

line. What the school and our classroom voices should sound like as well. Then once they have

it down, we as a class will go to the restrooms and back to the class.

8:25-9:10 Start setting up our notebooks. Math will have “I do”, “We do” and “You do”

sections on each topic within math. From our review that we have learned in second grade to

what our topics in class are going to be about. Our first lesson will to be reviewing material that

we learned in the second grade and how we can build on what we learned last year to this New

Year as third graders.

9:10- 9:15 Go noodle or have the students get up, dance or shake out nerves or release

extra energy.
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9:15- 10:00 Science notebook set ups! Science will have the same “I do”, “We do” and

“You do” sections, but at the back of the notebook will be room for them to reflect on what they

learned and how they can relate to the subject or the lesson that we learned that day. Our first

lesson will be what we had gone over in the second grade or what they might have learned. Write

a small reflection about what they want more of for science lesson i.e. more hands on material or

activities that they want to try.

10:00-10:45 I have given like 5 extra minutes into the lineup for art class. I will walk

with them to art class. I will also pick them up from there. During this time I will either be doing

lesson plans or having parent teacher meetings. When I pick them up at 10:45 to 11 I will stop

and have them us the restroom before we have to go to lunch.

11:00-11:45 The students will have 25-30 minutes for lunch and then 15-20 minutes for

recess.

My classroom will switch with my peer teacher for English and Social studies. After

lunch and recess.

11:45- 12:15 I will meet my second group of students by the door and instruct them to

put their things up at their desks. And meet me on carpet for community meeting. Will go over

my top five rules in the classroom and go over how they want our classroom to look like, act like

and feel like as a group. (After the first day and what not this will be shorter and it will be about

how everyone is feeling about today and what are some experiments they want to try or look at.)

12:15-1:00 Will go over setting up math notebook, and lesson.

1:00- 1:05 go noodle

1:05-1:55 Setting up science notebook, lesson, and reflection.

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1:55- 2:05 take my second class to the bathroom and then back to their homeroom

teacher.

2:05- 2:30 Welcome my homeroom back into the classroom and instruct them to

community group. Go over our classroom community rules or expectations as a whole in our

community group. I want to hear their feedback about how they felt about my top five rules. And

what rule or expectations they can think of for our community.

2:30- 3:15 have the students reflect in their journals for reading/ writing about how they

felt about their first day and how they truly feel about this New Year as third graders.

3:15- 3:30 Go over our classroom departure. From bus routes, pick-ups from parents and

extended day. How we should act when we are in the bus route lines, carpool parent pick- up,

and where to go for extended day and who the teacher might be. Then practice our three different

lines for bus, carpool and extended day.

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Classroom Environment/ Class Safety

I want my future classroom to feel inviting to my students. I want there to be an area for

morning and evening community circle, stations for the children to use like the computer,

whiteboard and silent reading. I know for the desks I want then to set up so the students who

might or may need the most help are closest to the board and more than enough moveable space

between to walk around and help students who have one on one questions. For safety reasons

will have a fire extinguisher by the front door and our path way during a fire drill as well by the

front door. From what I have seen in most of the schools that I have visited they have cubbies for

back packs or even closets to keep the materials for math and science manipulatives.
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Classroom Policies/ Procedures

I will use what the school has provided me on their own procedures/ polices. I will base

my own classroom rules/ policies off of, and add some more with my students to use in the

classroom, and around campus. I want my students to learn how to respect each other, no

physical harm to anyone (no bullying), and being open to new possibilities. I know that it is not

much but they fall under my main five: new ideas are welcome, no touching anyone, questions

right or wrong are welcomed, no talking when I am talk or a fellow classmate and being kind to

everyone. I will communicate this on the first day to my students and remind them throughout

the day and the rest of the year when needed. It will start off in community circle and have then

give feedback on what they want to change by adding new rules or deleting some rules. For the

parents I will be sending home a newsletter about the first day from the rules that we must follow

to what types of schools supplies may be needed if they have not yet receive their supplies. For

the administration will verbally tell them my procedures/ rules then give them a hard copy as

well. The days will start and end with community circle to reflect about their day and what they

expected to happen or what they could have changed that day. Transitions will rough at first until

the students get the hang of things but transitions will be either with go noodle or with daily

stretches for activity. When it comes to passing out materials, papers and etc., I will have

assigned a child every week so everyone has a turn at this responsibility. Hopefully the rule of no

talking when the teacher is talking stays in affect and I will not have too many interruptions.

When there is interruptions I will either walk to them like demonstrated in class to stop the

interruption or simply tell them to stop. If it continues then I will have a one on one conversation

with them and have then do the work silently over at the small group station.
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Discipline System

I do not like the idea of it being called discipline but as improve behavior. I never want to

do anything that would cause then to feel like they are given a harsh punishment but learning

from what they did to fix their behavior. I will not accept harming classmates or other students

from different classes physically, mentally and socially. I like the idea of using classroom dojo to

help keep track of the student’s behaviors in class so the parents and I are all on the same page. I

will want them to understand that the ding that the dojo app makes can either be positive or

negative but they will never know if it is negative or positive. I will address any misbehavior as

such meaning if not raising their hands and yelling out the answer will correct it by saying

“Please raise your hand so I can call on you and that yelling the answer out is not how we do it.”

If it is pushing or causing a fellow classmate to feel bullied that student will have to work with

me for the assignment or remainder of class have them reflect about what they did and how we

cannot be doing that to our classmates. I will want to be as calm as possible with my students if it

certain things like clicking of a pen or tapping of a pencil I will tell them nicely to stop if it does

not then they will have to sit alone for 5 minutes for quiet time. Possible consequences are

having to sit with me during recess and discuss why, or what they did, alone at lunch for them to

think clearly about what is happening and if it gets to a certain point then to the principal’s

office. I will involve the parents with the classroom dojo app and tell them of what misbehaviors

their child might have done throughout the day or have a one on one conference. I do not believe

that the color system works but that the dojo app will help with their conduct and have a point

system so that at the end of the week 50 mystery prize (no homework or lunch), 25 extra

restroom passes or pencils/ erasers, and anything under 15 will receive something very small or
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nothing at all. They do not have to use all the points that week and save them if they are working

on getting to 50 points or what have you. Canter and Carter Assertive discipline where the

teacher controls firmly while making it a positive manner or attitude.

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Student Motivation

I will pass out sheets of paper or note cards that have motivation written on them if that

does not work with my students will want them to tell me something that will get them started

i.e. if they finish their work they will be able to read or draw. If none of that works then I will let

them decide on the go noodle for the whole day but it will only apply if they finish their work

first and show it to me and it is correct they have until transition time to do so. Or I can have

each day or each week a student gets to be able to pick for the whole what type of go noodle they

want to do to motivate all the students when it is their time and even when it is not as well. My

hope is to be able to change their minds if they do not see value in school because there is one.

For those students who are gifted I want them to feel comfortable in my class from when they

enter the room to during assignments. Now, if there is something that they do not want to do I

will simply tell them that it a rule to try/ be open to need things and if you do not like it then you

do not have to do it again but you must keep an open/ positive mind frame about the said

activity. Fredic Jones positive classroom management is the type of style I want to aim for.
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Classroom Engagement

I want to have an I do, We do and You do system. I want my I do to be the hook to the

assignment that gets my students attention. I want to make sure I have everyone’s interests in

mind when planning my I do’s. For the We do I want the class to work together from what I gave

them as the hook a group activity. For example for learning decimals in math I want my I do to

be an acronym to learning the place values for the decimals while for the, We do they will work

on coming up on their own for the meanings of each decimal value and work off the grid I gave

them of this assignment. I will be also walking around helping students who ask for help and

those who might have a confused face about what they are doing. Now, for the You do I want

them to reflect and show their understand on the lesson so for the decimals I want them to show

how they got that and why it works for them. I want to make sure that for all the lessons I create

they the students get to be hands on with all the material to fully understand how, why and what

they got wrong to reflect on what they should do next time to get the correct answer. My

encouragement will my words of motivation and how motivated I am about learning the material

you know. If you do not like lesson, they will not like the lesson either so it is best to come up

with something that you and your class find fun. For if and when nothing seems to be getting

through, I will have my students tell or show me what the understand the most at of the concept,

so that I know who needs more help in certain areas.

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