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Professional Studies
Fall 2011
Florida Educator Accomplished Practices (FEAP) Reflection—Classroom Management Plan
A) List how you fulfilled the following FEAP descriptors in creating your Classroom Management plan:
A. Quality of Instruction
2. The Learning Environment. To maintain a student-centered
learning environment that is safe, organized, equitable, flexible,
inclusive, and collaborative, the effective educator consistently:
a.
Organizes, allocates, and manages the resources of
time, space, and attention;
A.
Briefly explain how you fulfilled each FEAP descriptor
in your Classroom Management Plan.
I organized each section of my classroom management
plan by bolding the titles of the main topics. I made sure
that the classroom management plan was accurately
organized and gave attention to each section of the plan.
b.
Manages individual and class behaviors through a wellplanned management system;
I planned my incentives for positive behavior, which
was class money, and disciplines for disruptive
behavior, which was loan slips.
c.
Conveys high expectations to all students;
I have rules and procedures that I expect all of the
students to follow. I am going to share those
expectations with my class on the first day of school.
e.
Models clear, acceptable oral and written
communication skills;
I checked my classroom management for spelling and
grammar to make sure it was appropriately written.
f.
Maintains a climate of openness, inquiry, fairness and
support;
I have an open door policy for the families of my
students. I provide a variety of communication tools, so
that the parents can be as involved in the classroom as
that would like to be.
h.
Adapts the learning environment to accommodate the
differing needs and diversity of students
I created my floor plan to accommodate the differing
needs and diversity of students. I placed the students
with ADHD and the students with learning disabilities
in the front of the classroom. I placed the ESOL
students with English speaking students so that the
ESOL students could practice their English. I placed the
students from the same country in the same vicinity, so
that the students can still talk in their native language.
Continuous Improvement, Responsibility, and Ethics
1. Continuous Professional Improvement. The effective
educator consistently:
a.
Designs purposeful professional goals to strengthen the
effectiveness of instruction based on students’ needs;
b.
Examines and uses data-informed research to improve
Briefly explain how you fulfilled each FEAP descriptor
in your Classroom Management Plan
I researched strategies to promote student self-esteem
and prevent the escalation of problem behavior. These
strategies will help me with my goal to minimize
problem behavior.
I used researched strategies while writing my classroom
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instruction and student achievement;
management plan. One way I used the strategies was by
placing high traffic areas away from student learning.
This was research done by Evertson and Emmer.
Collaborates with the home, school, and larger
communities to foster communication and to support
student learning and continuous improvement;
Students must bring home any loan slips in their takehome folder to be signed by their parents. The parents
must work with the student to write sentences about
how the student will earn class money. The take-home
folder is one way of communicating with the parents.
B) Take the explanations above and turn it into an essay on the following page:
There are a variety of things that go into a classroom management plan. When creating a
classroom management plan a teacher should consider the following: the learning environment
and continuous professional improvement.
There are a variety of ways to maintain a student-centered learning environment that is
organized, safe, equitable, flexible, inclusive, and collaborative. A classroom management plan
should organize, allocate, and manage the resource of time, space, and attention. I organized
each section of my classroom management plan by bolding the titles of the main topics. I made
sure that the classroom management plan was accurately organized and gave attention to each
section of the plan.
A classroom management plan should manage individual and class behaviors through a
well-planned management system. I planned my incentives for positive behavior, which was
class money, and disciplines for disruptive behavior, which was loan slips. A classroom
management plan should convey high expectations to all students. My classroom management
plan has rules and procedures that I expect all of the students to follow. I am going to share those
expectations with my class on the first day of school.
A classroom management plan should model clear, acceptable oral and written
communication skills. I checked my classroom management plan for spelling and grammar and
proof read the plan to make sure it was appropriately written. A classroom management plan
should maintain a climate of openness, inquiry, fairness and support. I have an open door policy
for the families of my students. I provide a variety of communication tools, so that the parents
can be as involved in the classroom as much as they would like to be.
A classroom management plan should adapt the learning environment to accommodate
the differing needs and diversity of students. I created my floor plan to accommodate the
differing needs and diversity of students. I placed the students with ADHD and the students with
learning disabilities in the front of the classroom. I placed the ESOL students with English
speaking students so that the ESOL students could practice their English. I placed the students
from the same country in the same vicinity, so that the students can still talk in their native
language.
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Professional Studies
Fall 2011
The effective teacher designs a classroom management plan so that it has purposeful
professional goals to strengthen the effectiveness of instruction based on students’ needs. I
researched strategies to promote student self-esteem and prevent the escalation of problem
behavior. These strategies will help me with my goal to minimize problem behavior.
A classroom management plan should examine and use data-informed research to
improve instruction and student achievement. I used researched strategies while writing my
classroom management plan. One way I used the strategies was by placing high traffic areas
away from student learning. This was research done by Evertson and Emmer. A classroom
management plan should collaborate with the home, school, and larger communities to foster
communication and to support student learning and continuous improvement. Students must
bring home any loan slips in their take-home folder to be signed by their parents. The parents
must work with the student to write sentences about how the student will earn class money. The
take-home folder is one way of communicating with the parents.
If a teacher considers the following: the learning environment and continuous
professional improvement, the lesson classroom management plan should be very effective.
Those items are what I considered while creating my classroom management plan.