Duties of student in classroom management

What Are the Duties of a Student in Classroom Management?

While it may seem like classroom management is the sole responsibility of the teacher, a student's role in maintaining a healthy and positive atmosphere in the classroom is equally important. While teachers set the tone of a classroom, students have an integral part in ensuring that classrooms stay efficient and manageable through proper discipline, active listening, full engagement in classroom projects and peer-to-peer relations.

PROPER DISCIPLINE

The single most important duty of a student in terms of classroom management is to obey the disciplinary guidelines that have been outlined by the teacher. Often, these tasks are simple: raising one's hand when one has something to say, not speaking over another, and respecting the space and belongings of fellow classmates. If students follow these simple rules, teachers are able to focus on teaching material instead of managing an unruly classroom. 

ACTIVE LISTENING

A definite duty of a student in classroom management is active listening. Active listening involves not just staying quiet while a teacher speaks, but also truly making an effort to fully absorb what the teacher is saying, explaining or teaching. Active listening is important for two reasons: firstly, it saves the teacher from having to explain things multiple times, and secondly, it saves the student from getting distracted. Both are factors that contribute to effective classroom management. 

Full Engagement in Classroom Projects

For a classroom to be managed effectively, every student needs to be fully engaged in the project at hand. When students become disengaged, teachers must spend valuable time disciplining those students or trying to engage them once more. It is the duty of every student to give his full attention to whatever project the class is working on in order for the classroom to function properly. Participation is a major part of fully engaging in any classroom project. 

Peer-to-Peer Relations

Perhaps one of the most poignant duties of a student in classroom management is her relationship with her peers. According to the website Cyberbullying in Schools, studies have shown that students who are bullied at school become withdrawn and do less well than their non-bullied peers on academic assignments, so the maintenance of cordial relations with classmates is of utmost importance. While the teacher should certainly be monitoring the class for any unscrupulous behavior, it is ultimately up to the student to ensure that she is treating her peers the way she would like to be treated.

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

What Are Three Ways of Maintaining Discipline in the Classroom?

As a teacher, besides we teaching student of course the others important thing is to managing classroom discipline right? This is because during teaching, if we don't know how to take student attention of course our objective to give information not achieved. Here i list a few tips how to maintaining discipline in classrooms. 

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT  

Have a basic understanding of classroom management and how to effectively run a well-organized classroom. Visualize your day. There are many things that happen everyday, multiple times a day. Students enter the room. Students leave the room. Students turn in work. Students get work back. Students switch from one subject to the other.

It is a good practice to develop procedures for each thing that students do on a daily basis. Make sure your students know how to turn in papers. Develop procedures for what they are to do when they enter the classroom and what they should do before they go home. A checklist is an excellent tool that will greatly cut down on student discipline issues, because the students will know what you expect them to be doing at any given time.

Procedures should be reviewed before each activity. When one subject ends and the next begins, remind the students of what they are expected to do, whether it is to put away their own books or wait for the table leader to collect the books and return them to the shelf.

Good procedures are the start of good classroom management.

ENGAGING LESSON 

Maintain discipline in the classroom by designing engaging lessons. When students are actively engaged in an activity, there will be fewer discipline problems. What makes an engaging lesson differs from subject to subject and from grade to grade. However, there are some basic elements that should be present in all lessons.

First, preview the lesson before you begin. Make clear what is going to be taught, what you expect the students to learn and what activities they will engage in. Taking a few minutes to preview the lesson sets the stage for the teaching that will follow.

Second, plan out the lesson. Winging it rarely works. Have any needed materials ready. Know what pages the students need to turn to and already have the closing activity planned. A good practice is to prepare ahead for two possible issues. First, what will you do if the lesson takes longer than you anticipated? Second, what will you do if the lesson does not take as long as you anticipated? Answering these questions ahead of time helps you be better prepared and ensures that you will be able to keep your students engaged.

Finally, close every lesson and transition to the next activity. Remind the students what they learned. Talk about any homework. Preview what will happen tomorrow. Then, using your procedures, transition to the next activity. When students know what they have done and what they are going to be doing, there is less confusion and this helps maintain student discipline. 

CLEAR EXPECTATION AND CONSEQUENCES

The last strategy for maintaining discipline in the classroom is to have clear expectations and clear consequences for the times students may not follow these expectations. Again, these vary from class to class and grade to grade, but they also vary from activity to activity. You do not have the same set of expectations for group work as you do for when a student is presenting to classmates. Here are a few elements that can be incorporated regardless of the setting.

First, regularly review the expectations and consequences. It is better to prevent discipline issues than to have to solve them, and sometimes something as simple as a reminder is enough to prevent things from going wrong in the first place.

Second, avoid whole class consequences. Do your best to handle discipline problems by addressing the individuals who are having trouble that day. If it is a whole class problem, it is most likely the result of a procedure problem, not a student discipline issue.

Third, do everything you can to handle discipline problems discretely. Many times a child who is not following your expectations is hoping to receive attention from the class. By handling the problem privately, as opposed to in front of the class, you will take away the motivation for class attention.

CLOSING THOUGHTS 

Having a well-managed classroom with engaging lessons and clear expectations and consequences does not happen overnight. It takes time and practice. The more you work at it, the better you get.