Control entry to the classroom
The ideal place to establish control over your pupils is outside the door - before you even let them in the room.You must start the lesson under your terms. And the lesson starts before they enter the room with you having them line up outside the door in an orderly manner. This is the perfect time to gauge the mood of the group and indeed the individuals in the group. You can easily spot potential problems (unhappy pupils, cases of bullying, arguments etc.) and deal with them rather than letting them go unnoticed and having them escalate into serious disruptions during your lesson. If the group won't stand still and quiet don't let them in the room. They must do EXACTLY as you say before you let them through the door. If they run to a chair bring them back again and make them walk. If you let them get away with anything at this important stage, you will set the tone as being one where they can get away with things. You don't want that. Have 'settling work' ready for them when they enter the room If you have a group who just won't settle try presenting them with some of the following 'settling work' as soon as they enter the room. But... make sure you add this little twist to ensure the pupils get stuck into it straight away... On your board have the following written up... "Complete the work detailed below. You have ten minutes. If you don't finish it, you will return at break to complete it." Obviously you need to adjust individual work targets for less able pupils to make it fair. Once they've started you can go round the slow workers very quietly, out of earshot of the others, and tell them where to stop. i.e. give them a work target which requires less writing than the others -"James, you can stop when you get to the end of this sentence". (And put a pencil mark where you want them to get up to.) The great advantage of this strategy is that it gives you a few minutes to get your resources sorted out. I do use this if I want to show a DVD clip and haven't had time to set the AV equipment up for example On each desk you could have a quick topic-related puzzle, a review quiz of last lesson's work, a cloze exercise or some text copying work. Nothing too difficult - you don't want to confuse them because they'll spend ten minutes asking questions instead of settling down. Choose something simple (and preferably light-hearted or fun) that requires no explanation or fuss. As well as having the instructions written on the board, greet them at the door and say... "Get started on the simple task on your desk - you have ten minutes to finish it." Once they're in the room you can then add... "Anyone not finishing this little task will finish it at break - there should be no talking. If you talk you'll come back at break and do it in silence then." If you want them to copy notes from the board (or a book) make sure there isn't a huge amount of text otherwise you will provoke complaints. You can 'hide' extra work by having five or ten lines of text for them to copy and then a note at the end saying "Now answer question 2 on page 46" which could be another five or ten lines of notes. Comments like... "It is entirely your choice as to whether or not you get break. If you want break, do the work. If you don't want break, sit and chat." ...can be used if they don't settle straight away Standar Sarana dan Prasarana Setiap satuan pendidikan wajib memiliki sarana yang meliputi perabot, peralatan pendidikan, media pendidikan, buku dan sumber belajar lainnya, bahan habis pakai, serta perlengkapan lain yang diperlukan untuk menunjang proses pembelajaran yang teratur dan berkelanjutan. Setiap satuan pendidikan wajib memiliki prasarana yang meliputi lahan, ruang kelas, ruang pimpinan satuan pendidikan, ruang pendidik, ruang tata usaha, ruang perpustakaan, ruang laboratorium, ruang bengkel kerja, ruang unit produksi, ruang kantin, instalasi daya dan jasa, tempat berolahraga, tempat beribadah, tempat bermain, tempat berkreasi, dan ruang/tempat lain yang diperlukan untuk menunjang proses pembelajaran yang teratur dan berkelanjutan. Berikut ini, Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan Nasional Republik Indonesia yang berkaitan dengan Standar Sarana dan Prasarana. · Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan Nasional Republik Indonesia No 24 Tahun 2007 tentang Standar Sarana dan Prasarana untuk Sekolah Dasar/Madrasah Ibtidaiyah (SD/MI), Sekolah Menengah Pertama/Madrasah Tsanawiyah (SMP/MTs), dan Sekolah Menengah Atas/Madrasah Aliyah (SMA/MA). · Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan Nasional Republik Indonesia No 40 Tahun 2008 tentang Standar Sarana Prasarana untuk Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan (SMK) dan Madrasah Aliyah Kejuruan (MAK). · Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan Nasional Republik Indonesia Nomor 33 Tahun 2008 tentang Standar Sarana Prasarana untuk Sekolah Luar Biasa. |
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