Evaluate+QD

** Dominique Johnson ** ** Katy Rodgers ** ** Eboni Jedkins ** ** Jenny Rickaway ** ** Jenny Rodriguez ** ** Evaluate **  Today we learned about the importance of collaboration and how it affects a teacher’s success. Teachers must work together to ensure that they all have the same goal and students are on target. When teachers get together and collaborate, they have the chance to exchange ideas and make their lessons more efficient.   Quest Divas came to the conclusion that we prefer positive reinforcement over negative punishment as a classroom management skill. We agreed with the importance of collaboration and the responsibilities of a teacher; such as meeting with their team members and staying on task with meetings. We did not agree with teachers not following through as far as classroom management. Teachers must be sure to keep classroom management a constant focus for the success of their class. Routines should be established within the first two weeks of school, so that the teacher does not have to continuously redirect inappropriate behavior. The teacher should also be prepared to efficiently deal with classroom management conflicts. Conflicts in the classroom arise frequently, and teachers should be equipped with the proper skills to handle them. If teachers allow for themselves to be consumed by classroom chaos, then the environment can potentially become damaging for both teachers and students. We’ve grown professionally from the strategies we have learned in our methods courses. We also use strategies we observed the teacher using, and implemented them in our own lessons. Finally, we are growing more confident in knowing what would be the best classroom management practices. For example, redirecting students attention or focus is an important practice when students are misbehaving.
 * Charnea Washington **
 * 1) ** As a group, reflect on what you have learned today about studying teaching in collaborative groups.  **
 * 1) ** As a group, draft a brief statement (approx 1-2 paragraphs) of what you learned or new understandings you came to during this discussion. What did you agree with/about, and what did you not agree with/about? How do you KNOW you learned and grew?! Post this statement to your PLC page.  **