Classroom organisation and management are two practices whereby a portion of the process is influenced by the person behind the teacher. I mean this in the most basic way – personal pedagogy and values will impact outputs such as the choice of what subjects to display on walls, the seating plan and the priorities within it, or even the main behavioural rules within a classroom. Possibly to an unconscious level. Competing with and complementing personal beliefs I find my ‘teacher persona’. What I say and how I say it when in ‘teacher mode’. This gets created from a recepie of the school around me, my teacher training and the standards and regulations underpinning teaching. Non-verbal communication supports important aspects of maintaining control over a classroom – personality, emotional regulation and self presentation. Managing a classroom effectively boils down to the Classroom Management Plan regarding behaviour and physicalities. The approaches taken to rewarding supportive, enthusiastic, overall positive behaviour and sanctioning disrespectful or disruptive behaviour. Reflecting on the reading and the new learning I have to say that I don’t know how to present the ‘Miss Queen’ representative of this control of the classroom. I know my values and beliefs and can try to expand that into an environment such as a classroom but beyond that I need to tentitively step into the role I need to fill – Miss Queen.
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