Behaviour Management Reflection
Introduction
During my professional experience I have reflected on observations and comments both made by my supervising mentors and my own personal reflections. My mentors and I have reviewed past engagements and I have sought similarities in reflections which I have identified one particular issue I believe will aid my development, Behaviour Management.
Behaviour Management has always interested me as, this issue essentially forms the foundations in allowing the learning process to fully be absorbed by new “global citizens” (MCEETYA, 2008), I as a teacher am trying to facilitate. As a teacher I am not merely aiming to be a competent instructor of content but, a manager of the learning environment too (Hattie, 2009), which is why ensuring …show more content…
As such, the findings reflected in Fogelgarn and Lewis’ action research article portray the cognitive mindset experienced by educators and more importantly, that of the students’ rationale for and of behaviour management.
Fogelgarn and Lewis (2015), outline that internalised values such as, obedience, volition or compliance have key ties with values taught; resilience, empathy and respect. Therefore, suggesting that it is essential for educators to internalise conceptual values such as personal and communal responsibility (Elias et al., 2013). That is, responding to needs of others and caring about and for them, including teachers (Noddings, 2013). Essentially, outlining that more than academia should be focused on, regardless of time constraints.
Conceptions of the student’s cognitive ability regarding behaviour management are quite alarming; effectively with media and parental influence shaping student attitudes towards school as “institutionalised sites which exercise of power is not comprehensible to the youth”, thereby resulting in the students expectations “of being controlled” (Dockett and Perry,
During my professional experience I have reflected on observations and comments both made by my supervising mentors and my own personal reflections. My mentors and I have reviewed past engagements and I have sought similarities in reflections which I have identified one particular issue I believe will aid my development, Behaviour Management.
Behaviour Management has always interested me as, this issue essentially forms the foundations in allowing the learning process to fully be absorbed by new “global citizens” (MCEETYA, 2008), I as a teacher am trying to facilitate. As a teacher I am not merely aiming to be a competent instructor of content but, a manager of the learning environment too (Hattie, 2009), which is why ensuring …show more content…
As such, the findings reflected in Fogelgarn and Lewis’ action research article portray the cognitive mindset experienced by educators and more importantly, that of the students’ rationale for and of behaviour management.
Fogelgarn and Lewis (2015), outline that internalised values such as, obedience, volition or compliance have key ties with values taught; resilience, empathy and respect. Therefore, suggesting that it is essential for educators to internalise conceptual values such as personal and communal responsibility (Elias et al., 2013). That is, responding to needs of others and caring about and for them, including teachers (Noddings, 2013). Essentially, outlining that more than academia should be focused on, regardless of time constraints.
Conceptions of the student’s cognitive ability regarding behaviour management are quite alarming; effectively with media and parental influence shaping student attitudes towards school as “institutionalised sites which exercise of power is not comprehensible to the youth”, thereby resulting in the students expectations “of being controlled” (Dockett and Perry,