Classroom Management

In Mrs. Elizondo class she imposes a daily routine for the students which is as soon as they walk into the door in her classroom the students are expected to go to the supplies table and pick up their folders. The teacher always begins the class with a review of what was thought the previous day and made sure the students remembered what they were thought. She then continued with reading the book and then proceeding to the handout that came with it. After that they worked on reading TAKS passages that helps students on their TAKS techniques. Many of the assignments where routine and the students know that ten minutes before its time for lunch and the end of the class the teacher will begin to tell them to place everything away.

The teacher took care of the attendance in a way that the students are not disturbed from their class time. She has a seating arrangement impose and she knew simply by looking at seats if students were missing. After she takes roll sends the attendance roster to the office every day with a student. Usually she picks a student who is not disruptive to take it to the office.

Since I went to the classroom a week after the school had began for the summer session the rules were not mentioned; however, one day a student who was falling asleep in class was sent into the counselors office for disturbance in the class to the other students. She constantly is monitoring what the students are doing and if they are staying on tasks. If students overly talk to other students she moved the students to a seat in the back of the class so they wont disrupt others.

Students do have permission to go into the restroom not one student asked to go to the restroom constantly; therefore, going into the restroom wasn’t a problem for the students in the class. If they did have to go the restroom was visible from inside the classroom glass door. Having this was great for Mrs. Garza.

Mrs. Elizondo is an authoritative teacher who managed her class in a well manner she never had to raise her voice to her students because they all respected her. Before the class ended she always connected with her students by asking them questions about what they did for fun or how their weekend were.