CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT.
Justification
Group seating
In this classroom management, tables were arranged in groups where there are thirty six pupils were separated into nine groups. Tables in small groups work well especially for classes that include collaborative activities. Furthermore, there are also wide space between the each groups which make it easier for the teacher’s to move around the class. This arrangement also allows the teacher to group together students with similar needs, which makes individualized instruction easier. Students with hearing and sight problems also need to be placed in the front row. Students who are easily distracted need to be placed away from possible distractions like windows. Other than that, assigning seats for the students is the other option. Make this clear to the students and explain that the adjustments after the first two weeks or certain period
Besides that, the strength of this classroom management is when the bookshelves and books were placed in front of class. This is because, it will be easier for the teacher in order to monitor the pupils from destroying the books. The teacher also can monitor them continuously during the lesson and can make a prompt action if there were pupils who tried to do such thing. Furthermore, if the bookshelves were placed behind teacher’s desk, there will be possibilities for the teacher to have a difficulty in control the pupils during the lesson. Other than that, the wastebasket also was placed at the back of the class to ensure no interruption occurs during the learning process where students will continue to commute from his seat to remove trash and sharpen their pencils. It also ensures that any waste does not affect pupils and teachers concentration. The bulletin boards were located in front of the class in order to make sure all the information and duties regarding to the class were always being take note by pupils and make easier for the teacher to monitor the class progress. .Other than that, the chalkboard were located in front of the class in order to make sure all the contents in teaching process can be conveyed smoothly to pupils. It also can increase the student’s focused in learning process. Teacher’s desk was placed in front of the class to ensure teachers to control the class environment. Files were located besides the teacher’s desk in order to enable teachers to take attendance and make a record regarding to the student activities. Furthermore, it also can avoid the files from being destroyed by pupils.
JUSTIFICATION FOR THE MIXED ABILITY CLASS.
Teachers differ in the criteria they use to arrange seating groups. Some create mixed ability or mixed gender groups; others go for homogeneity. Indeed, in many classrooms seating arrangements are deliberately planned so that children from different 'ability groups' sit together. Arrangement allows six or eight children each to reach and use one centrally placed set of resources, such as pens, glue etc. This is self-evidently true. If children were to be seated in separate pairs or in a group, for instance, resource sets would either have to increase in number or be passed more frequently between children. In many ways, every class is a mixed-ability class. Even students who have studiedtogether all the time will have varied mastery of the language or rememberdifferent things. Some will be better at different skills: reading, writing, listening,or speaking. They bring their own personalities, strengths, weaknesses, andlearning styles to the class. By arranging students in their respective group,we can give students different tasks accordingto their strengths and weaknesses and at the same time, teacher can give special focus to the weaker students. When students are working together in English, they- Talk more
-Share their ideas
-Learn from each other
- Are more involved
-Feel more secure and less anxious
-Use English in a meaningful, realistic way
-Enjoy using English to communicate.
JUSTIFICATION FOR SMALL GROUP ARRANGEMENT:
o Classroom is a place where the teacher and students interact with each other in T&L process to construct knowledge from the information available.When students come in the first day of school they automatically look for their friends and immediately want to sit right next to them.--Aaron, January 29, 2008, EDCI 6304
o If a teacher is to work with groups of children and to move between these groups, it makes sense that children should be seated together as groups and also apart from other groups. In this context, there is an evident consistency between what the teacher is trying to do, what the pupils are to do, the kind of interaction that is intended and the configuration of the furniture. So, group seating seems to be a good idea for small group teaching and, to the extent that primary teachers make use of small group teaching, this would be a good way to organize classrooms.
o Group seating is valuable because it supports small group teaching, we have to conclude that, while this may well be true, the limited proportion of teachers' and especially of children's time that small group teaching accounts for means that it cannot (alone) justify group seating as the standard seating arrangement in primary classrooms.
o When children are to collaborate in learning they need to interact, share resources, and so on, a group seating arrangement clearly fits the bill. By design students to work in pair,it allows free access to resources, easy view of the whiteboard and enables us to move around to work with everyone.
o A set of tables was set end-to-end in the center of the room to hold all the apparatus
o The reason I believe that smaller classes are beneficial to students is that when I was a high school student I preferred being in a class with a few students. I felt we had a more personalized relationship with our teacher instead of feeling like a needle in the hay stack. —Emily Fierros, Jan 29, 2008, EDCI 6304
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