Classroom Management and “what’s up for grubbs”

 

What did I learned from the first 4 Chapters – Class Mgmt.            11/2/08

In a rapidly changing world and classroom/business environment, we all predict that the future classroom will go electronic, and it's already here. Yes, a classroom is a place of business, an epicurean birthing and social skills development center; and, a learning pod. Just imagine capturing the formation of words, sentences, graphics, and images in teacher's AV G3 computer connected to a TV/VCR – just like that of Rancho Las Positas School in Livermore, California ( class's Tool Kit Resources).

All exciting things considered, out of the first 4 chapters of our text, revealed several prominent and familiar notes from mother, childhood, and from Fred Jones 2000: "choose your parents very carefully; they are your primary methods
course". Or, "natural teachers describe it as common sense or what we know later" as learning instinct." (Pg 6 top left para) And, that far exceeds all the inscripted modals or practices of any single teacher. (last para pg 7)

Ahh, just remember the day (s) you learned how to drive a stick-shift driven vehicle. And, the same day you've scratched your husband Cadillac. This acquired victorious-spirit- of-top- of –the- world glory, will absolutely take you to your teaching modals as in: "you mean business, and that the class belongs to you, on the first day of school". Teacher will "work smart and not hard." (Pg 1)

Instruction, motivation, and discipline, go hand in hand and occur at one particular American Moment. With this in mind, planning ahead, focusing on prevention will enhance the reason why students wants to go back to school with higher expectation the next day, and because teacher has motivated them to work hard, holding them accountable of "going for the gold" or for higher standards, guiding them with credible team work attitude especially giving a hand to alienated students, as peer or mentors.

As I've grown to be familiar of Classroom Management methods or what's up for grabs, I favor most of the following tags, with article clippings, additional hyperlinks or further navigational elements pertaining to my favorite tags, began a Journal, & a folder for:

My favorite tags in Classroom Management:

• Planning meetings before school starts or meetings on a weekly basis.
  
• On classroom overhead projectors. Saving times, fun-filled, adding effectiveness/ prowess to classroom management.
  

Thus, I want to know:

What is the best way to project computer screen on the wall for an entire class to see?

 

I dream of a more efficient classroom of the future.

Something like that of technology specialist:

• Lori Sanborn's Dream Lab, at Rancho Las Positas School in Livermore, California,
  

"Our computer lab has 22 stations equipped with computer tables with keyboard drawers, iMacs with Internet access, and headphones. Students sit in adjustable swivel chairs, and the room has reflective, nonglare fluorescent lighting.

"The presentation station features an LCD projector connected to an AV G3 computer," Sanborn said. "The multimedia teacher station has a flatbed scanner and color printer connected to a G3 Macintosh computer, which is connected to a TV/VCR. The lab also has a networked laser printer and two networked color printers. A student file server, accessible from any networked computer on campus, allows me to save student work."

• And, Mary Kreul's Learning Lab SETTING UP A LAB IS A GROUP EFFORT
  

"We're meeting this week to decide how to revamp an Apple IIGS lab in our building and create an iMac lab," Mary Kreul, a teacher at Richards Elementary School in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, told Education World. She jotted down some of the ideas planners at her school are working with.

"To create the best possible design for teaching," Kreul said, "the lab should be designed by the staff members who are going to use it. Students and parents should be consulted. Visits should be made to other schools to see how their labs are designed, and as much research as possible should be done to gain the widest possible perspective.

"A great lab," according to Kreul, "would include

• ergonomic, 'kid-sized' tables and chairs;
  
• 25 of the newest model iMacs with maximum memory;
  
• headsets for each computer;
  
• two black-and-white laser printers and one laser color printer;
  
• the fastest possible Internet access -- a T-1 line, if possible;
  
• computers that are connected to building and district servers;
  
• a teacher station, with white board attached to a G4 presentation computer;
  
• working spaces for small-group collaborative work;
  
• accessibility and space for special needs students and the adults who work with them;
  
  • computers connected to the school's media center, so students can access print & other media;
    
• adequate lighting and air circulation, including air conditioning;
  
• soundproofing; and
  
• a bright, colorful, inviting atmosphere."
  

TERMS:
Tag (metadata), a keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information

a hyperlink, is a reference or navigation
element in a document to another section of the same document or to another document that may be on or part of a (different) domain.

A blog, is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site

Inspiration Corner:

"Creative teachers will find many ways to put these graphics tools to use in student projects and in their own communication efforts. But perhaps it's enough that they are just plain fun!" (Doug Johnson, Director of Media and Technology for the Mankato Public Schools) dougj@doug-johnson.com.