Classroom management

PARENT COMMUNICATION

• Vital to student success, we appreciate their involvement
• Let parents know they are an integral part of your academic “team”…..Student-Parent-Teacher Team
• Make them feel they are welcome in your classroom
• Encourage them to get involved in the classroom and school
• Send home weekly newsletters
• Post your newsletter on your website weekly
• Respond to e-mails, notes from home as soon as possible
• Set up monthly blogs, utilize podcasting

IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER

• Prepare a First Day Script
• Welcome your students, know their names, celebrate the First Day with them
• Establish procedures that create consistency
• State your expectations
• You are the greatest asset to your school!

CONCLUSION

In a well-managed classroom:

• There exists a set of procedures and routines that structure the classroom
• Students are engaged in learning
• Students know what is expected of them
• There is relatively little wasted time, confusion or disruption
• The climate of the classroom is work-oriented, relaxed, pleasant, and welcoming
• Teachers and their students are successful

One hundred years from now it will not matter What kind of car I drove, What kind of house I lived in, How much I had in the bank, Or what my clothes looked like. But the world will be a better place because I was important in the life of a child. -Forest E. Witcraft

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!