Teacher'R Role in Classroom Management

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Why is teacher‟s role in classroom management important? Teacher‟s role in classroom management is important due to the fact that teacher‟s performance affects student‟s achievement and behaviour. It is a fact that effective teachers can alter the result of their student‟s achievement by 30%, Hattie states „Teachers – who account for about 30% of the variance. It is what the teachers know, do, and care about which is very powerful in this learning equation.‟ Teachers Make a Difference, John Hattie (2003). Therefore the teachers role in classroom management is a major factor which determines student‟s success in the classroom.

In my opinion teachers have a major role to play in the classroom because students spend a huge amount of hours in a classroom and in this place is where they will learn their manners, habit and behaviour that will influence their future decisions and attitude. Some if not all students have said once in their life that „School Sucks‟ this statement is a result of bad experience in class or school wether it is the teachers or the social aspect of the school. Frank Musgrove states ‘the immediate case against compulsory school for adolescents is quite simply their barbarity: it is a triangle of hatred, humiliation and contempt.’ Society and the Teacher’s Role by Frank Musgrove. Thus this statement shows clearly to us that school can sometimes be a dreadful place, but teachers who are able to make a positive learning environment is one that will have an effect on their students‟ behaviour, achievement and attitude.

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Teacher role in classroom management is a study that is always developing and expanding, the amount of research that goes into teaching is quiet tremendous around the world. Different technique and style have been utilized to improve the student‟s capability to learn and manage behaviour. The lessons that the students learned in classrooms are rippled through to social aspect of their lives such as family and friends (Kathryn R. Wentzel, Social Relationship and Motivation in Middle School) The lessons that the student learn are both in and outside context such as motivation, affirmation and positive attitude, which effects their social life and vice versa. Thus making it vital for teachers to understand and be actively involved in the student‟s life not just in the classroom.

The theory above shows that the classroom can affect the student but it is also the factors outside the classroom that can affect the student as much as the teacher. Thus it raises more questions such as how do teachers contribute to the social aspect of a student? Michael Collins answer this question perfectly in his article ‘Adult Education as Vocation: A Critical Role for the Adult Educator’ in this article it explains how teachers role does not stop just because the „bell‟ at the end of each lesson, but it expand on how teachers is able to not just be a teacher but a friend that the student can talk to.

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A bigger issue in Australia is the challenge to teach in a classroom with different background students. The culture and tradition varies with students thus making teaching more challenging. Some values and tradition forge the teachers to customise their lesson to cater for the students.

In the book Coping with Chaos by Brian Cambourne and Jan Turbill, the idea of being in control in classroom environment can affects young learner’s achievement especially those who comes from a different non local background. This book describes how young children from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds have coped with the conditions surrounding them in classrooms. The teacher becomes a fuel for the class

atmosphere. Due to the multiculturalism in Australia, teachers need to constantly set the atmosphere for all students to be considerate for each other and to manage chaos inside and outside of classroom.

Improving learning through enhanced metacognition: a classroom study by J. R. Baird is an interesting experiment and study for both teachers and student. The use of metacognition method on both teacher and student it allows the student to be more proficient in learning and its techniques and method can be carried across to the classroom. It is an interesting proposition due to its potential to be implemented in classrooms but its flaws are in the method itself for it does not have an effect outside of classroom little at best. Thus for the immense detail and one on one time between the teacher and the student this method is still not able to be implemented to every student.

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In around the world the importance of teacher‟s role in classroom management have been a vital role achieving success in their schools and student‟s achievement. In Wood Green High School teachers have been the medium for student‟s success. In addition it is not just how they teach but it is also how the school itself create a positive environment that promotes learning to all the students. Even though Wood Green high is located in a town where the unemployment are almost double the national standard the school is actively playing a role in the community to reduce that number. Their head teacher Pan Percel states that ‘it is not just in the classroom that learning happens but also outside. It is our job and duty as teachers to ensure that the students learn the right skills and attitude to ensure success for their future’ Future development of relationship between teacher and media have also raise much potential and question for our future generation. Teacher can utilize this medium to bring more content into a more interesting and engaging lesson but some can argue that having laptop inside a classroom is like having no teacher there in the first place. Some would argue that having laptop in a classroom is like having a lecture with a video lecturer „it have no interaction the moment all the laptop screen went up and the student start typing and we start talking‟. Media therefore can be utilize as a medium to increase or decrease the student‟s learning success by reducing or maximising the teacher‟s involvement in a classroom.

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Future development in the teaching field is still ongoing. Most if not all of the development is to increase the success of the student and to give our future generation of teachers more resources and method to teach. It is a continuing development that require more than just decades to perfect but just like an old saying „take care of the cents and the dollar will take care of itself‟ what we can take out of this paper is that the importance of our roles as teacher in a classroom is making sure that we provide a safe and respectful environment for the students. Thus behaviour in the classroom and our role in managing a classroom are in the outmost interest to us and to all future teachers if we are to maximise the 30% variable teachers have in affecting student‟s achievement.

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Annotated Bibliography Social Relationship and Motivation in Middle School.” Author: Kathryn R. Wentzel, American Psychological Association 1998 This article shows the study of motivation, relation between student, peers, family and teachers. It contains information about classroom management how it can create a positive or negative learning environment resulting the students‟ motivation and outcome. Teachers Motivation Secondary School

“Society and the Teacher‟s Role.”

We found the image of society part of this book a little out of date but the Author: Frank Musgrove and classroom and teachers role Philip H Taylor that can affect the student‟s behaviour in society very resourceful, due to the fact that how the student behave outside of class can affect the classroom and vice versa “ROLE OF TEACHER” Both Prof and doctor have Coming of Age analysed today‟s society and see how teachers role affect Author Prof. Terence J. Lovat the physical world of a young With the assistance of Dr. adult. As students what do Christopher Mackenzie 2003 they perceive in the teachers themselves? As lifetime learners (tertiary and up). From being told to be quiet until learning when to listen. Also the development of students with an everchanging environment, including Classroom to Lecture room and tutorials.

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Adult Education as Vocation: A Critical Role for the Adult Educator. Author: Michael Collins Publication date: 1991

Fixation on technique, erosion of autonomous and community interests, and efforts to increase professionalization of adult education (which tends to emphasize the differences between adult educators and adult learners rather than their common interests) have created a crisis in adult education. Contemporary practice and research on selfdirected learning have focused on teaching techniques.

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Coping with Chaos (77 pages) Author: Brian Cambourne, Jan Turbill Publisher: Business Manager, Primary English Teaching Association, PO Box 167, Rozelle, New South Wales 2039, Australia Date: 1987

Exploring questions about how the classroom environment affects young learners, this book describes how young children from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds have coped with the conditions surrounding them in process oriented writing classrooms.

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Improving learning through enhanced metacognition: a classroom study Author: J. R. Baird Publisher: International Journal of Science Education Volume 8, Issue 3, 1986, Pages 263 - 282

Title: Student behaviour: theory and practice for teachers Authors: Porter, Louise Issue Date: 2007 Publisher: Allen and Unwin Citation: Porter, L., 2007. Student behaviour: theory and practice for teachers, Crow‟s Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin.

A six-month classroom-based action-research study is reported, which involved 64 Grade 9 and 11 students, their teacher and the researcher. The study was directed to improving students' responsibility for, and control of, learning by training for enhanced metacognition. Training was for the three aspects of metacognition -knowledge, awareness, control. A central feature of training was for students to practise applying evaluative cognitive strategies during lessons. All participants documented changes in classroom behaviours, attitudes and performances. Results indicate that all objectives were achieved. Students became more informed, purposeful learners, exerting greater control over their learning. However, improvement was limited by certain classroom factors external to the learner. This article shows that behaviour of student and how it is directly affected by teachers. Teacher directly and indirectly shape and form their students behaviour in class and outside class. This article discuss both the theory that have arise in the 21st century and also the practices that is out there untilized everyday to educate our next generation.

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Against the odds Wood greed High

How high school that is under very limited http://www.teachers.tv/videos/succeeding- circumstances can against-the-odds-wood-green-high-school succeed and achieve a very high average in [19/4/2011 accessed by Ignatius Lundy] state test. How they strive and work off each other, how teachers helped their students and together build a positive learning environment and positive attitude towards learning. Action teacher Video secondary English This Video talks about and media how an English teacher made a change in the http://www.teachers.tv/videos/actionway he teacher with teacher-video-secondary-english-andmedia and the problems media he have to overcome. [20/4/2011 accessed by Ignatius Lundy] The scary guy does parents http://www.teachers.tv/videos/the-scaryguy-does-parents [17/4/2011 accessed by Ignatius Lundy] This video shows the importance of parent and how they are in need to involve themselves in the student‟s life. Not just in academic but also social, making sure that the parents are involved and up to date with what is happening in school and in the student social life. This video shows how that matching system between students can improve their study and behaviour. They take care of each other and prevent bullying in which case can affect the student‟s attitude in classroom and achievement

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Matching and Caring http://www.teachers.tv/videos/matchingand-caring [17/4/2011 accessed by Ignatius Lundy]

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