Volume 10 Classroom
Management
1. Make a list of the classroom
rules and identify the disciplinary consequences for students who
break each rule.
2. Consider the following classroom routines. Select one or two from the list or a routine of your choice and try to think of ways in which these routines could be used to provide academic experience for your students: attendance, passing out materials, taking care of living organisms, clean up.
3. How should a class begin? What routines or transitions will facilitate students coming to your class and to be ready to begin?
4. What are some "activities" or "events" that could prevent a class from starting on time?
5. What are some routines you could use at the beginning of each class or while students are entering which could help to ready students to focus their attention while you take care of necessary administrative tasks or prepare to begin? (Hint: journal/log writing, picking up materials...)
6. Brainstorm some potential things you can do at the end of a class if the activities you planned don't take you to the end of the period. What are some successful ways of utilizing this "end of class" time.?
7. What safety precautions should you take if you were to use calcium in a lab activity? Include a discussion of the safety gear and equipment that students would need, and hazards associated with its use.
8. Prepare a lesson plan for the first day of one of the following classes: earth science, biology, chemistry, physics, physical science. Your lesson plan should detail and account for each minute in the lesson. Use the models shown on pages 000 - 000.
9. Design a set of "safety person says" signs for a secondary science classroom. Some ideas include: danger---flammable materials, danger---acid, danger---poison, eye wash, wear your goggles.