CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT ACADEMIC WRITING

Our South African hero, Mr Nelson Mandela once said “Knowledge is a weapon   that can change the world” (Mandela, 2001). From that statement, it is the teachers and the educators who play vital roles in giving knowledge to the generation. It is undeniable that throughout the journey, they need to face various challenges and demand in teaching the students. According to Orbach (2011), if you never face the hardship in doing something, you are not giving the best yet. In this piece of    writing, the way to plan effective classroom in order to create conducive classroom based on the theory and classroom management model and the solution for Ibnu Sina class problem will be explained briefly.

First and foremost, one of the initiatives to create effective classroom are by being effective teacher in managing a classroom. Effective teacher creates productive students from a conducive classroom environment (Dornyei, 2017).  Teachers can creatively use various way to be an effective educator. For example, teachers can manage the the classroom by internalising caring culture. Students do not care what the teachers know unless they know that you care (Baker, Grant & Morlock, 2008). This means, they need affection and attention from teachers. From our logical thinking, we used to be students and we care more for the teachers who cares about us. So, the students will learn to respect the teachers and behaved well in classroom. In relation to that, it will be easier for the teachers to build effective classroom at school.

Other than that, things that we can use in managing a particular classroom are  by setting the classroom rules and routine. Rules and regulations are one way to discipline a kid (Rowntree, 2015)). If the teacher managed to produce a discipline students, then the student will have no conflicts and problems in following the rules. This initiative can be used as an alternative to reduce and solve the problem of the two girls in Ibnu Sina class who love to make noise. Once students get very loud, teachers will need to take extreme action to get them to stop those     noisiness. To make things easier, it would be good if teachers train the students   to be disciplined and obey the rules and regulations made. It is better to start early rather than treating and solving the problem when they are starting to grow up.

Then, to find solution for the boys’ problem who always disturb the girls in classroom during teaching and learning session, teachers can expose the students on how to develop positive relationship. If the students practise positive relationship, they will manage to get rid all of the negative behaviour among them. For example, teachers can teach them to develop positive relationship by giving them their own time and respect them. According to Darwall (2006), the presence of respect in oneself promotes peace and harmony. From that statement, we can relate with the problem we are facing now to create a conducive and effective classroom. Clearly, we can see that by developing positive relationship, we can reduce this problem.

Next, teachers can also apply classroom discipline concept to build effective classroom. Controlling kids in a classroom needs strategy or they will go after their teacher Tomlinson, 2014). Applying these concept will help the teacher to have good class control and lead to effective classroom. One of the concept that can be applied is Canter Assertive Discipline Concept. This concept emphasize on good behaviour and the student’s acceptance on the consequences from behaviour they shown. Telling a person the result of an action teach them to accept the fact that      actions have consequences (Black & Wiliam, 2005). For example, in our case there are few boys from Ibnu Sina Class that always come late to school. When they know the consequences from their actions, they will come early to school to avoid them.

Other than that, it is important for the teachers to play their roles in managing problematic behaviour at school. We can see that in Ibnu Sina Class there are few students who have problematic behaviour. So, its the teacher’s role  to help them fix their attitude. One thing that they can do is by validating the    learners. When students feel sidelined, overlook and ignored, they will start to     act out (Mulrine & Jenkins, 2008). This problem can be overcome by giving them attention, listen to them and acknowledge their contribution. This action will manage to prevent formation of problematic behaviour. Due to this, teachers will have less problem to plan effective classroom if less problems in classroom. Obviously, we can clearly say that teachers are one of the most important individual in solving problematic behaviour.

In addition, another method that can be applied to the students is play    therapy. According to Landreth (2012), play therapy is a method where we respond to the mental health of a particular child according to their needs. In this method, teachers will help the children to express and communicate to others on what     they feel. The reason of why play therapy is a good method to be used in classroom  is because children have a difficulty on expressing feeling through words. There   are few things that they cannot explain maybe due to their capability to speak     and other factors that limits their expression. In conjunction to this limitation, play therapy helps adults to communicate with the children and at the same  time observe how children uses the activities to express their feeling. By doing this, teachers can understand the children deeper and tackle their  attention through suitable method.

Next, teachers can also use behaviour modification techniques to control the  kids. Their behaviour need to be modified in order for the teacher be able          to create effective and conducive classroom. This technique is more or less       have connection with the classroom discipline concept where both            involve encouraging the students. According to Levin and Nolan (2014), behaviour modification can be define as as the changes of attitude through implementation of        various techniques to replace bad behaviour with preferable ones. Behaviour modification does not only used to improve the children behaviour, but it is also        used to treat various problem such as phobias, enuresis and obsessive-compulsive disoder (Rollnick, 2008).

In behaviour modification techniques, teachers can use positive and     negative reinforcement for solving problems. For example, when a child is    behaving good in classroom, teachers should praise and give them rewards.      This is very important and we can say that it is one of the most effective method     in shaping a child’s behaviour. They will automatically continue to behave        well since the reinforcement is pleasant to them. On the other hand, teachers      can also applied negative reinforcement if the students are acting out. It can be    either positive or negative punishment for the kids. In order to let  them free from the punishment, the children will prevent themselves from  doing the same mistake so that they would not have to receive any punishment in the future.

In conclusion, there concept and theory that was learnt are very important  in order to create an effective and conducive classroom. Not only that, teachers should master many concept and ways in managing conflicts and problems   among the students. Otherwise, the teachers will need to struggle to handle  the classroom problem. From all the above suggested method and techniques used, Ibnu Sina Classroom’s problem can be overcome. The students and the teachers also play important roles in creating effective and conducive classroom.

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