REDG 605: Adolescent Development, Learning, and Assessment

Student Learning (SL) and Classroom Management (CM) Plan Assignment

Context: The ways in which a teacher approaches his or her classroom (beliefs about student capabilities,
the teacher/student relationship, and behavior) affect the outcomes of the classroomi.e. academic
learning, social and emotional learning, etc.

Central Focus: Interns will reflect upon their own values, beliefs, and understandings gained from the
literature to develop a student learning and classroom management plan.

The table below can serve as a guide for your thinking about how you might approach your classroom
regarding SL and CM. Knowing that your beliefs, values, and understandings about SL and CM can and will
change, this document is intended to be a launching point for your planning and approach.

Philosophy: What do you believe about SL and CM?

What will it look like?: If a community member walked into your classroom, how would they
describe it?

Teacher Roles: What will you, as the teacher, do to influence SL and CM?

Student Roles: What will your students do to influence their own learning and management?

Curricular Roles: What role will your content area play in your classroom?

Physical Space Roles: How will your classroom be arranged? Will the arrangement change?

Other Aspects: What might be important to you, but missing from the list?
 Student Learning (SL) Plan
Philosophy: I believe that good student learning
occurs in a classroom environment that is
welcoming, friendly, engaging, interactive, student
centered and challenges the minds of its students.
What SL will look like in my classroom: I will use real
life examples and experiences, group work, and
interactive activities in my classroom to help engage
the students in productive learning.
Teacher Roles: As a teacher, I will be compassionate
towards my students and the subject matter. I will
facilitate student learning by allowing the pace of
the class to be dictated by the depth of
understanding the students have on material, and I
will be flexible if change is needed. I will ask
questions that challenge the students thinking, and
ask students to justify their way of thinking. I will
encourage students to participate in their learning.
Student Roles: Student roles are to be an active
listener, be willing to learn, participate in the lesson,
communicate material, challenge themselves,
classmates, and the teacher, and have an open
mind.
Curricular Roles: Curriculum is a starting point for
learning. I believe there is more to just teaching the
subject. Teaching life lessons, responsibility,
organization, etc., is also very important.
Physical Space Roles: Student learning should also
happen outside of the classroom. The classroom
should have no barriers that hinder and affect
student learning.
My classroom will have tables to allow group work
and group discussion to take place on a daily basis.
Classroom Management (CM) Plan
Philosophy: provide a safe, comfortable classroom
environment that has unlimited opportunities for student
learning.
What CM will look like in my classroom: To make the
room stimulating, inviting and visually appeasing, I will
decorate it with math posters, graphs as well as examples
of student work.
Teacher Roles: To make rules that students will
follow to help make the classroom feel safe and
comfortable. To have activities that the students
relate to and enjoy doing to keep the energy on
learning and not on talking or socializing.
Student Roles: To follow rules, be kind to one
another and help make the classroom environment
as safe and enjoyable as possible. Students will also
complete their work by asking questions, taking an
active role in what they learn, and communicate
what they need from me to help them complete
their activities whether that be modifications on
time allotted or the product outcome.
Curricular Roles: Curriculum should help engage the
students in their work and allow them to be creative.
The more students enjoy what they are learning the
less likely they are to cause a disruption.
Physical Space Roles: My classroom will have tables
grouped together. Since group work will be a huge
part of my classroom, having tables grouped
together is essential. It is also easier to manage
smaller groups than 30 individual students.
I will also have a seating chart to try and maximize
student participation and involvement. I will try to