Learning environment, rules & regulations, effective classroom management

Question 1

What is an effective classroom?

Answer 1

A positive place where a student can come to work toward specific goals set before them in class objectives

Question 2

How should a good teacher be?

Answer 2

Positive, organised, outgoing, confident and compassionate

Question 3

What are the benefits of a well-managed classroom?

Answer 3

It improves classroom efficiency and creates an environment conducive to learning

Question 4

What are the characteristics of an effective classroom?

Answer 4

• Clear classrooms rules and student expectations
• Frequent and successful assessment (formative and summative)
• Students do their best in learning, high student engagement
• Teacher uses a variety of teaching-learning strategies
• Teaching and learning are student-centred with authentic and purposeful learning
• Efficient housekeeping

Question 5

What is formative assessment?

Answer 5

Ongoing assessments that aren’t graded. Example, asking a child to write the number 10 on the whiteboard

Question 6

What is summative assessment?

Answer 6

Assessments that are carried out after the lesson and are graded, like tests

Question 7

What are some teaching-learning strategies?

Answer 7

Cooperative learning, visualisation, concrete example (bringing an object and showing it)

Question 8

What is meant by efficient housekeeping?

Answer 8

Students are aware of their responsibilities. For example, students push their chairs under the table after classes

Question 9

What is effective classroom management?

Answer 9

The wide variety of skills and techniques that teachers use to keep students organised, focused, attentive, and academically productive

Question 10

What kind of environment does effective classroom management create?

Answer 10

• Classroom is safe, orderly and focused on both academic and social-emotional learning
• Students feel physically and emotionally safe
• Daily routines, learning activities & behaviour expectations are designed to promote learning and development

Question 11

Why is classroom management important?

Answer 11

• To ensure effective learning and students stay motivated
• Respect and personal responsibility promotes personal, social and moral development in students
• For the general public to know whether schools and teachers are doing their jobs

Question 12

What are the characteristics of effective classroom management?

Answer 12

• Student engagement
• Effective time management
• Positive work environment
• Firm discipline

Question 13

Why is student engagement important?

Answer 13

Students involved in the learning process helps foster higher-level thinking skills in students

Question 14

Why is effective time management important?

Answer 14

To minimise time waste and improve efficiency. The students know which areas in the classroom are accessible to them, as well as where items are placed in the classroom

Question 15

Why is a positive work environment important?

Answer 15

Students will feel comfortable asking their teacher questions

Question 16

Why is firm discipline an important factor in efficient classroom management?

Answer 16

It allows students to remain disciplined and encourages an efficient workflow

Question 17

Why is it important to create a productive classroom learning environment?

Answer 17

For teachers to affect successful and effective learning in the classroom

Question 18

What is the classroom climate and why is it important?

Answer 18

The emotional and physical aspect of the classroom; the social climate. It influences student growth and behaviour

Question 19

What are the benefits of a positive classroom climate?

Answer 19

• Makes students & teachers feel safe, respectful, welcoming and supportive of student learning
• Promotes positive relationships
• Students feel physically and emotionally safe
• Creates a community of learners
• Teacher and students work together to help everyone learn
• Builds trust, which are attached to the ideas of inclusiveness, support and respect for others

Question 20

How do you create a positive classroom climate?

Answer 20

• Make the classroom physically attractive to all types of learners

Question 21

What is the teacher’s role in classroom management?

Answer 21

• Interact with the students to have them motivated and interested
• For students to feel physically and emotionally safe
• Make the emotional climate relaxed with well-behaved students
• Help students understand that learning is their highest priority in the classroom

Question 22

What are ways to incorporate fun into your teaching method?

Answer 22

• Create comic strips or watch a movie related to the class topic, have the students discuss after
• Create a treasure hunt with a map that can only be deciphered with clues, riddles or hints given in class

Question 23

What are ways to build a safe environment?

Answer 23

Let it be a no-judgement zone

Question 24

How do students’ feedback contribute to effective classroom management?

Answer 24

Properly collected feedback makes or breaks a successful system

Question 25

Why should collaboration between students be encouraged?

Answer 25

Working alone is boring, in groups can be instructional and effective

Question 26

How is reinforcing positive behaviour a part of effective classroom management?

Answer 26

Identifying and reinforcing positive behaviours can strengthen motivation to succeed, while also creating a productive learning environment

Question 27

Why is it important to keep up t o date curriculum and teaching methods?

Answer 27

“How relevant is this topic to me / society currently?” , “In what ways can I relate to this issue?”

Question 28

How to handle mistakes in the classrooms?

Answer 28

Guide the children and demonstrate the correct way

Question 29

How do you get parents to be involved in education?

Answer 29

An example is to have parents sign books of children’s assignments as acknowledgement

Question 30

What are the benefits of parental involvement in education?

Answer 30

• Higher educational expectations
• Reduced truancy (absenteeism)
• Increased focus on homework
• Higher academic achievement
• Better school-parent communication
• Positive school culture

Question 31

How does parental involvement increase a student’s focus on homework?

Answer 31

They will know their teacher will report to their parents if they aren’t doing their homework

Question 32

Why are rules and regulations in the classroom important?

Answer 32

For students’ academic and social behaviour. these rules should be clear and concise (to the point)

Question 33

How should teachers design classroom rules and regulations?

Answer 33

• They should be reasonable & necessary
• Clear and understandable
• Consistent with instructional goals
• Built using positive action words (what students should do rather than not do)
• Consistently and fairly enforce rules
• Put behavioural management plans in place
• Communicate the consequences