1. The document discusses two classmates' views on classroom management. The first classmate, Xiomara Garcia, feels most confident about holding students accountable and feels her biggest concern is setting rules and procedures. She proposes using Kounin's assertive discipline approach to address this concern. 2. The second classmate, Ronald Taylor Jr., feels most confident about making students feel comfortable. His biggest concern is overly explaining assignments, and he proposes using Kounin's group alerting technique to address this concern.

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Review at least two of your classmates’ responses and relate
their views of classroom management to the models described in
Chapter 5. Describe whether their classroom management views
are teacher-centered or student centered and why.
By: Xiomara Garcia
· When you think about managing a classroom, what do you feel
most confident about?
When I think about managing a classroom, I feel most
confident about holding students accountable. I think this is
very important because students need to know what is expected
from the teacher in order to be productive in the classroom. Our
text states that first, teachers should clearly communicate
assignment expectations and requirements. Second, teachers
should monitor their progress. During class, this can be
accomplished by circulating around the classroom and giving
corrective feedback. For assignments completed outside the
classroom, the teacher can monitor students’ work by
scheduling progress checks. Third, teachers provide regular and
prompt feedback (Krogh, Fielstein, Phelps, & Newman, 2015).
· What are your biggest concerns? State carefully one possible
way to deal with your greatest concern and relate it to Kounin’s
preventive approaches to managing a classroom.
My biggest concern is to determine or set up the rules
and procedures to follow in the classroom. Our text states
that “teachers have the right to teach and to expect appropriate
behavior in the classroom. Students have the right to expect
support from their teacher and help minimizing inappropriate
behavior” (Krogh, Fielstein, Phelps, & Newman, 2015). One
possible way to deal with my greatest concern would be to use
one of Kounin’s preventive approach: the Assertive

2. Discipline.This strategy focuses primarily on rewards and
consequences in the classroom, but also on catching students
being good. I will first establish set of consistent rules,
developing a set of positive consequences, developing a set of
negative consequences, and creating a plan for implementing
the model with students.
· Why do you think your solution will work? What challenges
or obstacles could impede its success?
I think this solution will work because rules and
procedures are important components for an effective classroom
management. In the assertive discipline model, teachers “must
be persistent in stating classroom expectations and recognize
the responsibility they have to themselves and their students.
Teachers must also reward or compliment appropriate behavior
and point out inappropriate behavior (Krogh, Fielstein, Phelps,
& Newman, 2015). One of the challenges that this model might
have is that the teachers won’t have consistent rules and this
would cause the students to be inconsistent in their behavior.
The thinking behind this strategy is that it is essential for
students to understand exactly what will happen when they
misbehave but if the teacher’s expectations are not clear, the
students won’t be able to function.
Review at least two of your classmates’ responses and relate
their views of classroom management to the models described in
Chapter 5. Describe whether their classroom management views
are teacher-centered or student centered and why.
By: Ronald Taylor Jr.
When you think about managing a classroom, what do you feel
most confident about?
I feel confident about making students feel comfortable and at
ease in the classroom. Even working with students now they are
very comfortable around me and enjoy talking to me. I have
had multiple students ask to talk to me about an issue or
problem they are having. I think that making students feel at
ease in the classroom is so important so that they fell they can

3. learn and take risks without being out down or judged. I want it
to be a supportive environment they can thrive in.
What are your biggest concerns? State carefully one possible
way to deal with your greatest concern and relate it to Kounin’s
preventive approaches to managing a classroom.
My biggest concern is that since I currently work with special
needs students and have to break down instruction and
directions so much, I will overly explain assignments and my
students will lose interest. As Kounin says, "when a teacher
overdwells, students lose interest, become frustrated, and may
take advantage of opportunities to misbehave" (Krogh et. al). I
do not want to overdwell on something and create an
atmosphere of frustration. I think a good tip to avoid this would
be to use what Kounin calls group alerting. By using a phrase
"Everyone look up here" I could have all attention on me and
only have to explain an assignment once (hopefully).
Why do you think your solution will work? What challenges or
obstacles could impede its success? Explain.
I think that this solution could work because in having
everyone's attention I would not feel as though I had to explain
directions more than once and if there is any confusion I can
exlain to everyone at once before letting them work. There
could of course be challenges such as students not focusing and
paying attention which could distract others and myself,
however, if this occurs I will use Kounin's suggestion of simply
waling by and touching the desk they sit at.
Krogh, S., Fielstein, L., Phelps, P. & Newman, R.
(2015). Introduction to Education: Choosingto Teach. San
Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.