Managing classroom conflict is so difficult to handle if the teacher doesn’t know how to patch up differences and to pacify conflict in order not to be repeated in the future.

Classroom conflict without management is not good in the sense that it adds more rising actions in the future.

Teachers have enormous power in the classroom, but they must strive to utilize it to create a climate in which students are neither so intimidated that they never challenge them, nor become so infuriated that they revolt. 

The way they design their lesson plans and action plans through students’ interaction regulates this power-relationship and determines the educational outcome.

Encouraging civil behavior is one way to make the smooth moves and actuations go on. Improper function may gradually destroy everything as far as learning environment is concerned.

For most teachers in public secondary schools, teaching in ordinary or science class is one of the most challenging classroom assignments.

Although we have expertise in our content areas, we often have little training to manage such numbers of students.

Paramount to establishing a positive small or large class environment and deterring disruptive behavior is to let students know your expectations from the outset and hold them to those expectations.

Perhaps, most importantly, as teachers we need to take into account our own behavior as well as that of our students.

An honest attempt, to fathom how our classroom deportments might contribute to a difficult situation, may help reduce incivilities.

Students are too harsh and disruptive with regard to learning attitudes towards the teachers and the subjects they have enrolled and learned.

Teaching democratically is not to be confused with creating a laissez-faire atmosphere of intellectual relativism, where anything goes.  Neither does it mean an abdication of a teacher’s responsibility to judge the merits of what students can academically do.

What it means is that we make an effort to create conditions under which all the voices can speak and be heard (including our own), and in which educational processes can be seen and uncovered to a prolific negotiation.

Patience is very important in dealing with students and painstaking effort is resorting to classroom difficulties to go against the odds and tides.

As you know, being a new teacher, I always saw the glass as half empty in a pessimistic way instead of seeing it half full. Every time, I was unable to manage the class I felt the need to quit as children’s behavior especially the younger kids was extremely humiliating and required a teacher to be the most tolerant person on this planet.

So, for the two years I went home with a cup of tears in the evening and, forgot all about it during my sleep as I felt children, no matter how obstinate or disobedient, are the closest creatures to God and, highly innocent.  In spite of my loud shouts and scolding, they would come back next day with total kindness and magnanimous behavior though they’d not compromise on naughtiness.

Any how, bad news sometimes is the best medicine. The first year of teaching, I had a child almost running carelessly and aggressively and, he totally banged against the edge of the wall with serious bruises. This was the turning point in my life, as I realized, I must enlighten this young souls from within so that they are more in self-control.

I, therefore, started on my journey as a teacher trying to read self-improvement books that would benefit me in my classroom everyday. I started sharing my personal experience and even experiences of great thinkers and men who achieved great only due to their integrity in character.

So, I believe to be a teacher is to be extremely patient, tolerant yet compassionate and firm. She also needs to keep herself updated with the latest news and must read everyday.

The school district she teaches in supplies some furniture for each classroom. This typically just includes student desks and chairs, a desk for the teacher and some extra tables for the room, so my mom really needed a great storage unit for all the items she inherited. After pricing plastic tubs and shelving units, she decided to petition to have some commercial casework installed. By adding cabinet space, everything could have its own place. There was a cupboard for art supplies, one for games and more for growth in the future. An additional benefit to cabinetry was that the plastic laminate casework is hung on the wall and thus does not take up extra floor space.

As previously mentioned, teaching elementary school requires a lot of supplies and since teachers only have one classroom, storage and organization are crucial. My mother enjoys doing things with her students, such as carpet time where stories are read and also art projects, so it was imperative to have as much floor space as possible. Also, at the end of each school year when it comes time to pack up the classroom for the summer, this task is now a breeze since everything can be stored in a cupboard. In the end, hanging cabinetry worked out great and everything now has a place in her jam-packed classroom.

Finally we teach!
Even this was for the last, but it was not least. As our group preparation, we did some discussion and looking for the source of material a few days before. We did distribution of task among us (Anggi, Firzie, Zahra and me), based on sub topic that will we teach. Actually we got a bit confuse in separate the subtopic for group activity in the class, because the subtopic in this topic was a bit much, but finally we could manage it well enough.
We did distribution of material that have to mastery in our intern group personal. Zahra had to mastery the subtopic about Management Strategies (Minor Interventions, Moderate Interventions and Using other as resources). Firzie had to mastery the subtopic about Dealing with aggression (fighting, bullying, and Defiance). Anggi had to mastery the subtopic about Classroom and school based programs (Social –enhancements , improving, social – adolescence, and 3C). And me, had to mastery the subtopic about Diversity and education. As we know that in our teaching we used games. And for prepare that games each of us had to made some questions and answer key based on the subtopic that we have to mastery.

Actually for some subtopic I still did not really understand yet, maybe because the subtopics that we have to teach are quite much and we distribute the subtopic for mastered. However when time to teach is come… I was became more understand by teaching!

How came? Because when we teach, I could hear the other friends’ point of view, other arguments, and other ideas when they share each other after they read the material. So it made me more understand about a part that I still didn’t understand before.

By this, I realize that Teaching is Learning Process, when we teach it means that we were learning together with them. If we already known first, we will understand more by teaching and if we still not really understand yet, we will be understand by teaching. Suddenly I remember a statement from my teacher when I was in Vocational High School, she said “sebenarnya guru itu bukan berarti lebih pintar dan lebih tau dari siswanya, guru hanyalah belajar lebih dulu dan lebih tau lebih dahulu dari siswanya.”

And I think that’s true.

When we face Belligerence students, what should we do? (Case 3 in module)

First the teacher has to build good communication with that student, asks the student to stop her/his disruptive behavior’s patiently. Show that we are care and love her/him, tell the benefit if s/he do not disrupt the class and also tell the consequence if s/he still disrupt the class. Teacher has to build more patience and power struggles in her heart to deal this kind of cases.

I think students like this case should not be threated by violence but with gentleness and patience, but teacher still keep distinct. So that, students will feel that they are cared and loved by the teacher.

It is theorized here that the robots are not quite so judgemental on the children, and they feel more at ease to learn particularly when the robot cannot emotionally punish the child for getting an answer incorrect.  Researchers conclude that incorporating robots into the classroom offers a more positive and encouraging environment for students, which will, in turn, enhance their willingness to learn and explore their creativity.

This may not be such a futuristic notion, however, i expect more trials would need to be completed prior to implementing into mainstream schools.  There may be questions of practicality involved.  Personally, i would like to see the results of this study conducted with children with special needs.   Robots in the classroom may just make learning more fun for everyone, but i doubt they could replace our hard working teachers.

Teach Like A Champion book and DVD(ENG)

English | Jossey-Bass | ISBN : 0470550473 | 2010 | 356 pages | Book (.pdf) + DVDRip (.avi) | 2.19 GB

Genre: Ebooks

As featured in the New York Times Magazine, new teaching methods transforming education

San Francisco, CA – Imagine a classroom where the same students who, moments before, were unruly and undisciplined suddenly take their seats, pull out their notebooks and as if by magic, think and work like scholars. In a time of massive education budget cuts and layoffs, this scenario seems unlikely. Yet in classrooms around the U.S. there stands one teacher– an artisan whose techniques and execution differentiates her from her peers. What is this teacher’s secret? Does she possess an innate talent for the trade, or can her craft be learned?

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0470550473 | ISBN-13: 978-0470550472 | Publication Date: April 5, 2010 | Edition: 1

Teach Like a Champion offers effective teaching techniques to help teachers, especially those in their first few years, become champions in the classroom. These powerful techniques are concrete, specific, and are easy to put into action the very next day. Training activities at the end of each chapter help the reader further their understanding through reflection and application of the ideas to their own practice.

Among the techniques:

Technique #1: No Opt Out. How to move students from the blank stare or stubborn shrug to giving the right answer every time.

Technique #35: Do It Again. When students fail to successfully complete a basic task, from entering the classroom quietly to passing papers around, doing it again, doing it right, and doing it perfectly, results in the best consequences.

Technique #38: No Warnings. If you’re angry with your students, it usually means you should be angry with yourself. This technique shows how to effectively address misbehaviors in your classroom.

The book includes a DVD of 25 video clips of teachers demonstrating the techniques in the classroom.

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Way back one time when in my philosophy academic days, Professor Tagura asked my fellow classmate to answer a question in our Theodicy subject. Standing face to face with our professor, my classmate turned pale and eventually cried. To tell you honestly, he is a tough professor, but I might forget to tell you that he is among of those philosophy professors who really shaped my mind to think and feel like a real philosopher. Each meeting has always been a challenge to read further philosophy books.

Now, Professor Tagura asked the crying student, “Why are you crying?” The teary eyed classmate replied, “I’m afraid father…” The most brilliant reply I’ve ever heard was from that professor saying, “If you know the answer you’ll never be afraid!…” That line means a lot of things… politically, philosophically, psychologically.

On the other hand, how many students out there in every Colleges and Universities experiencing the same sinistrous day in their Oral Examination? Make no mistake, almost all of them as I’ve been through with that. Take it lightly, philosophy is not that tough. Professor Tagura’s reply has always been a phantom in my philosophical pursuit. From that moment on, each meeting and in every Oral Examination has always been a crowning moment until I confidently and successfully defended my undergraduate thesis. There is nothing to fear inside the classroom after all its a challenge to standout to the best argument. Classmates, I tell you… to eradicate fear from Oral Examination is to know the answer. To know the answer is simply by studying, that is, reading and applying what has been read. Have you experienced answering before a question is being delivered? If you can make it inside the classroom, then you will enjoy your college days. College days shall not be enjoyed through Class Outings, Class Tours, Class Parties or any class occasions for that matter. College days shall be enjoyed inside the classroom.

Back with my sister, she went home and handed to me the textbook they are using. The book is authored by Prof. Babor. As I went through the pages of the book the scent of philosophy sent me back to my academic years where I enjoyed so much and enthralled me to pursue further on philosophical studies.

Jovaney, Ramlic, I, John Lorence, Joreen, Gemar

The picture is taken during our gradaution ceremony inside the Shrine of the Divine Word at Christ the King Mission Seminary.