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Classroom Managment

The article discusses classroom management as a crucial process for organizing and running an effective learning environment, emphasizing that it involves more than just maintaining order. Key components include scheduling, discipline, and communication, which are essential for reducing student anxiety, ensuring adherence to rules, and fostering an open dialogue between teachers and students. The paper highlights the importance of developing management skills and adapting strategies to meet the needs of contemporary classrooms.
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The article discusses classroom management as a crucial process for organizing and running an effective learning environment, emphasizing that it involves more than just maintaining order. Key components include scheduling, discipline, and communication, which are essential for reducing student anxiety, ensuring adherence to rules, and fostering an open dialogue between teachers and students. The paper highlights the importance of developing management skills and adapting strategies to meet the needs of contemporary classrooms.
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Classroom management
Classroom management is the process of organizing and running the classroom business.

Many see it as maintaining order through the control of teachers. However, classroom

management is much more than that. This also includes setting up and maintaining the

teaching environment so that the educational goals can be achieved (Savage & Savage, 2010).

Furthermore, classroom management paves the way for teachers to get students to learn, and

good classroom management is more than just being strict, authoritarian, or simply being

organized. It contains routines, rules, and consequences, and it creates a set of expectations

that are used in an organized classroom environment.

For beginning teachers, the most difficult thing to master is classroom management, they may

feel stressed, lack adequate support, and feel unprepared to solve their students' behavioral

and academic problems because being an effective teacher does not just mean having a deep

knowledge of the content but also, organizational, management, and communication skills.

Furthermore, an effective teacher is responsible for creating a warm classroom climate and for

promoting enthusiasm, motivation, and an interactive teacher-student relationship. In other

words, effective teachers should provide a structured, caring environment that suits students'

personal and academic needs. Bosch (2006) claims that classroom management is a skill that

must be learned, practiced, assessed, and modified to adapt to the changing situation of

contemporary classrooms. Too often new teachers try a management strategy and become

discouraged if it does not immediately produce the desired effects. Bosch (2006) suggested

therefore that new teachers need to identify their personal and professional strengths and

weaknesses and examine their teaching practices. They should then develop and implement a

management plan and finally evaluate and revise this plan (Bosch, 2006). Thus, when

developing classroom management and classroom strategies, educators need to review their

personal beliefs about classroom management.

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In this paper, I chose to talk about scheduling, discipline, and communication which I

consider to be the three crucial ones amongst the seven areas of responsibility in classroom

management also including rules, classroom design, organization, and instructional technique

as stated by Cini (2017), every new teacher should master:

 Scheduling

Planning or scheduling is important not only for a teacher but also for the students. Knowing

what to expect during the day and, more importantly, when to expect it can help alleviate

student anxiety. When the anxiety subsides, students can focus, behavior management

problems decrease, and the classroom feels much more relaxed. According to many studies,

schedules and routines influence children's emotional, cognitive, and social development. For

example, predictable and consistent lesson schedules in preschool classes help children feel

safe and comfortable. Besides, schedules and routines help children understand the

expectations of the environment and reduce the frequency of behavioral problems such as

anger and aggression. Activity plans that give children choices, balanced and planned

activities and individual activities lead to high children's engagement rates. Also, the length of

playtime can influence children's social and cognitive forms of play (Ostrosky, Jung,

Hemmeter, & Thomas, 2008, p. 2).

 Discipline

Discipline is defined as the practice of teaching others to obey rules or norms by using

punishment to correct undesirable behavior and aims to ensure that every student gets the

most out of their education. A teacher uses discipline in a classroom to ensure routine is

maintained, school rules are enforced, and students are in a safe learning environment. In

short, discipline is a systematic way of teaching students to take responsibility for their

behavioral decisions. When some students are constantly bothering the teacher, the others in

the class are affected, and when a student does not follow the rules or do class or homework,
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that student is missing out on valuable learning opportunities, and learning cannot be achieved

without discipline.

While some tend to focus on what to do when children misbehave and therefore often

perceive discipline techniques as something separate from teaching, only to be employed

when problems arise, effective teachers create optimal learning environments by setting and

enforcing rules, establishing caring teacher-student relationships, addressing problem

behaviors, and using quality communication in both elementary and middle school. Students

of all ages can experience behavioral, attitude, and social problems. However, older students'

problems are more protracted and therefore more difficult to solve. Many middle school

students defy authority and place greater emphasis on peer norms. Because most middle

school students have more advanced thinking skills than younger ones, they generally ask for

a more detailed and logical explanation of the rules and discipline.

 Communication

Communication can be described as the process by which people share thoughts or ideas. It

allows students to freely discuss thoughts and ideas and creates an open environment in which

to ask questions without the risk of being judged or humiliated. Besides making learning

easier, communication also helps students achieve their goals. Furthermore, it increases

opportunities for advanced learning and strengthens the bond between student and teacher.

Communication also creates an overall positive experience, and both the student and the

teacher benefit when this is effective. Also, when a teacher shows interest in a student's

opinions, this latter will feel that their thoughts or ideas are valued, and this increases self-

esteem and self-confidence. Based on student feedback, a teacher can judge the effectiveness

of a lecture, and can also by asking questions determine if the students were able to keep the

information submitted. Above all, improvements in overall class performance can be noticed

by teachers who reward student communication and class participation. In short, any
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occupation requires some level of communication, and communication skills are therefore

required from the earliest stages of career growth.

To sum up, classroom management has recently received increasing attention from

educational leaders, reformers, and researchers who have begun to examine, analyze, and

document the effective strategies of successful teachers. The growing emphasis on class

management is based on the common recognition that effective teaching requires effective

classroom management and that strong management skills are the foundation of good

teaching.

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