More Control!

When thinking about my future classroom and how I would control my students, I began to think about how I am not the one to go after control, but I like knowing that I have it. To clear that last statement up, I won't forcefully go after having control of a situation, but if I need to I will. My senior year of high school I was a student aide for a Junior English class and I had to be able to control the class when the teacher was out of the room or when there were group activities and she was talking to one of the groups. I liked having that control because it made me feel that I had some respect from the students and it also made me feel like I could control a classroom. I can't wait until I have a classroom to myself and I can really experience what it is like to have total control of a classroom and of the students and what they learn. Hopefully I won't have to forcefully get control of a classroom, but I know I will be able to get it if I have to.

Control in the Classroom

While I was sitting in my math class waiting for the teacher to get there, I began to think about what I was going to write about for this first blog about control in the classroom. As I sat, my teacher came in, she did not say anything and the rest of the class just kept talking and finding their seats. Class had official begun and students were still talking and Mindy, my teacher, just sat down in the front of the class and looked at us. Slowly, the my fellow classmates took notice of her and they stopped talking. Than class began like it normally does with her making her announcements and than on to today's lecture. It hit my right than and there that teachers really do control the classroom and even in very subtle ways which most don't notice. I think teachers need that type of control because if there was a lack of control, nothing would get done during class. Also, I believe controls goes hand in hand with the students respecting the teacher too because we know from day one that the teacher is someone we have to respect and that they are there to help us learn. So in my mind there are two parts of control when it comes in the classroom. Who knew that math class would be helpful when it came to this blog?!?!