Classroom+Theroy

A great classroom theory will not just look at one theorist to get its own theory but it will combine some of the greatest to make one that they feel best represents themselves and will best help the students learn at their highest quality. Taking from Bandura’s Social theorist where students will learn from one another, you can then take that and combine it with getting to know your students and having them learn about one another from each other. This can be done by what I like to call a “Get to know me book” that the students will create. These Books will be made by the children in the classroom and then will be read to the class by that student at the end of the week. There really is no guideline for what needs to be put into the book about yourself and the students will work on these books together to see what each other will put in their own book. Building your relationship with your student will not just stop after that first week with you just finding information about them but all throughout the year the relationship with each of your students should grow.

Disruptive behavior or behavioral problems can be solved easily when positive behavior is promoted in the students. Having the students in your classroom know what you expect from the very beginning can also help this situation out. These rules that you give to the classroom should be given with a positive light on them but still specific of what the students need to do. Another great way to promote positive behavior in the students is to make sure you encourage them and not just the ones who get things correct but also the ones that are trying but struggling. Another way to make sure disruptive behavior is as less as possible is to show respect to the students and actually listening to them. All of these ideas of promoting positive students can also be seen as a form of Skinner’s behaviorist theory as well as taking from Bandura's.