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Are you a SUPERSTAR?:

Are you a SUPERSTAR?: . Classroom Management in Music Class . Not yet a teacher, but more than a helping hand……where do I stand? .

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Are you a SUPERSTAR?:

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  1. Are you a SUPERSTAR?: Classroom Management in Music Class

  2. Not yet a teacher, but more than a helping hand……where do I stand? While working with my third graders I noticed that they enjoyed the opportunity to be chatty in my classroom whenever the possibility was presented. They would talk over me and I found myself unable to control the noise level in my classroom. I thought that it was going to be a long semester of student teaching if I was not allowed to teach and lost my voice every other day!

  3. The goal To find a way to manage my classroom without having to feel like I was constantly yelling over thirty students.

  4. What to do when you lose control? • After a long first week with my third graders I decided that I needed to make a plan. • Steps to finding a plan: • Step one-find a cure for chatty third graders • Step two-realize there is no cure and pull out hair • Step three-GET THE STUDENTS INVOLVED • Step four-follow through with the plan of action that the students helped me come up with • Step five-They still talk….pull out more hair!

  5. Take your pick! • I decided that I would help the students make a behavior rubric that would help them stay on track. • I knew that I could not do this with every class, so I picked one of my most challenging classes to help me write it. • Once I had the class picked out I got down to work creating a chart that all students could follow and believe in.

  6. Are you a SUPERSTAR? • Once I had my rough and tumble class picked out it was time to put my plan into action. • I helped the students come up with four goals that they could live by every time that they stepped into my classroom. (I thought that this would help my classroom management skills that seemed to be just out of my reach.) • If they reached the four goals they got a four for the day. If they got a three for the day they met three of the goals and so on. • I thought that having them be in charge of their own behavior was important to maintaining my classroom.

  7. Lets add in some research shall we! • While implementing my SUPERSTAR chart I took it upon myself to research classroom management. I needed to find a better way of controlling me students because asking them to be a superstar did not always work out (talk more about why) • I needed to find a solution of getting my students attention beyond holding four fingers up to tell the students that I wanted to see superstar behavior from them before I moved on. • I needed to not lose my voice and my mind on a daily biases.

  8. What I found…. • The most important piece of information I discovered was this…… • If you are NOT prepared for a lesson or you have blank space in a lesson where nothing is going on: you lose the students!

  9. Why did I not think of that • This seemed like a less than intelligent statement, but it was one I never really thought about before I did the research. • Every time I had blank space in a lesson because I had to change a CD or turn on the projector the students would go out to lunch. Which left me frustrated and unable to quiet the students down for the rest of the class time. • I needed something more than my superstar chart to get me through.

  10. Clap once if you can hear me! • Methods: • Clapping a rhythm • Turning the lights on and off • Playing a rhythm or melody on the piano • Call and response • Clap once if you can hear me-IT WORKED! The students did the best when I used this last method and had the ability to stay quiet after I had their attention.

  11. Do you finally want to hear about the results of what worked best? • Drum roll please…… • Clap once if you can hear me! But what about the SUPERSTAR rubric?

  12. A learning process…. • As I struggled to find my way of classroom management there was always one thought on my mind….I am just a student teacher in the beginning stages of her hopefully, long career as a music teacher. There is never one right answer to solve all the little problems and I would lose my mind trying to fix what I cannot always control. I need to constantly learn from my triumphs and disappointments and know that the students are the only thing that really matter. As long as they are getting a great education I can leave some things up to chance….or blame it on a field trip the students took that day!

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