Thursday, August 7, 2008

TPE E

The Key to Classroom Managment by Robert Marzano and Jana Marzano begun by discussing the most obvious and the most essential, that is the centrality of relationships and relationship building with the students. Without relationships, there always will be an intuition of distrust and the naked power struggles of student verse teacher come out in the classroom. With classromm managment, they argue "teacher-student relationships is the keystone for all other aspects of classroom management." With those relationships being a base, the article discusses many different types of students, that cause particular affects, and have particular needs. With a combination of the humanness of relationships, coupled with the methodical skill of classroom control, and with concrete goal setting, the importance of the academics can safely enter the classroom space.

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