What could a classroom management plan look like?
If we’re looking for a compass rather than a roadmap, what are the points of the compass we need to pay attention to? At the centre of the compass is a clear set of core principles and values that become our personal goals we commit to and that guide us in every decision we make as professionals.These principles also include our commitment to be proactive in our approach and take individual responsibility for our actions. One compass point would lead us in the direction of setting out, as clearly and concisely as we can, what our philosophy of classroom management is. In other words, a kind of ‘mission statement’ about the kind of teacher we want to become.In this section we need to decide: • what our beliefs are about how students learn • what we believe motivates learners • what we understand about differences among learners and how we respond to those differences • what we identify as the different needs learners have and how we might meet those needs • to what extent our personalit
