COVID-19 health rules and procedures

In the classroom it's important that precautions are taken both inside and outside the classroom to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Here are some of these rules and procedures:

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  Practice safe distancing. 
• Increase desk spacing. 
  
• Masks must be won by everyone in school. 
• Limit the mixing of classes for school and after school activities. 
• Encourage all students to stay home and self is related if they feel ill. 
• Consider daily screening for body temperature.

Role of parents in online learning

The current pandemic has had an enormous impact on global education, for parents is definitely an added responsibility considering their personal work. Children at different ages face different challenges in online classrooms. That's why parents should help Their children to learn and develop their full potential.

• For younger children, parents can complement their online learning with hands-on activities such as book reading, drawing...
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  Give compliments for efforts and achievements. 
• Be a positive role model by showing responsible and respectful behavior. 
• Create a regular routine and encourage good work habits. 
• Help set up an environment conducive for online learning. 
• Engage the child in conversation on posted materials and assignments. 
• Connect with the teacher to personalize learning. 
• Work
  with their child to create a suitable schedule for learning.

Parents and School Policy

Parents  Trust the school to keep their children safe and provide a good learning environment. So in order to function effectively, schools must have clear policies and procedures that help to create an effective and productive environment for learning and help the school to run smoothly and safely, and ensure that students receive a quality education. policies are created and initiated to help student teachers, parents and staff feel physically and psychologically secure in their environment.

There are many policies that every student and parent should follow. for example: 

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  Attendance policy.
  
• Dress code policy. 
• Student code of conduct. 
• Respect policy. 
• Student discipline. 
• Cell phone policy.

Enhancing classroom management through parental involvement.

Getting the parents involved in their children's learning it's important to enhance classroom management effectiveness. And mitigate classroom challenges. Parental involvement plays a critical role In a student's academic success and achievements, they can help support teachers by teaching their children at home, making sure homework and lessons are done. Making parents aware of positive and negative behaviors and of the classroom plan, it can be a powerful tool in creating effective classroom management.

How to deal with parents:

The best tip for school success is to make sure that parents and teachers are working together as allies. There are many ways to help parents understand their child's progress, such as:

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  No surprises, keep the parents apprised and aware of any issue to avoid problems at the end of the year.
  
• Meet parents face-to-face, Invite parents to school meetings rather than trying to resolve a problem over the phone.
• Listen, ask and show empathy, ask parents to explain what they are unhappy about, listen to them and don't interrupt unless you are asking for clarification.
• Check with administrative policies. 
• Meaningfully involve them when a problem is raised or feedback is proposed. 
• Lower your expectations and understand that people are different and think and react differently.

Learning Cycle Model

 1st Stage: Determine Students Needs

 This is the initial stage where teachers needs to know and identify the knowledge gap of the students and their learning needs.  

2nd Stage: Determine Learning Goals

Determine objectives that addressed the need of students 

3rd Stage: Design Learning Activities  

When designing and planning for learning activities, teachers should know the types of activities that achieve the learning goal and their students are engaged in.

4th Stage: Prepare for Learning Activities

Teachers prepare the materials and questions necessary for the learning activities.

5th Stage: Conduct Learning Activities

Teachers should engaged students in the lesson activities 

6th Stage: Evaluate Student’s Achievement of Goals 

Teachers should evaluate how successfully their students achieved the unit's goal and the effectiveness of learning
activity

Teaching strategies for building classroom management talents

Teaching strategies for building classroom management talents. 

Teachers need to cultivate their teaching strategies, techniques and style in order to apply classroom management strategies that help to maintain student's cooperation and help them to learn and apply their knowledge to achieve their academic goals. The teacher should take into consideration the age of students Their level, the curriculum, the setting of the class, the length, etc. So she can reach all students with different learning styles and abilities. Also by using the teaching cycle model, students can comprehend the standards of conduct and learn how to meet them. That can help the teacher to design the materials and instructional strategies that are suitable to the student's  needs.

Teaching strategies for effective learning: 

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  Set clear objectives and outcomes. 
• Implementing technology in the classroom. 
• Inquiry-based instruction. 
• Provide students with feedback. 
• Questioning to check for understanding. 
• Encourage
  cooperative learning. 
• Nurture meta-cognition. 
• Tell students what they need to know and do.

Establishing a Classroom Climate

A safe and inclusive classroom is a part of the essential needs for students' well being and performance. The social, physical and emotional aspect of a learning environment well defines its climate. The interaction between students and teacher, how she managed their students behavior, the giving of instruction tasks, and the arrangement of the classroom, these are factors that help to create a positive classroom climate. So teacher can cultivate and create a classroom and a businesslike climate that encourage on-task and engage the student behaviors by:

Enhance true dialogues instead of IRE cycles in the classroom: True dialogue  and discussions are valuable strategies for inquiry lessons that provide opportunities for students to share their own thoughts and experiences and speak from their own perspectives and help them to reason and think, rather than to simply parrot what they think teachers will judge as correct. Teacher can manage true dialogue in the classroom by: 

• Thinking about her/his questions. 
• Using tactical body language. 
• Using active learning strategies. 
• Creating a student led forum. 
• Creating a safe environment.

Minimizing transition times: Some amount of transition time is necessary in the classroom, but should decrease the overall wait time between activities, times when children are moving in the class, times when they are waiting for instructions or materials,..

Being demonstratively prepared, organized and with-it: Maintaining a well-organized classroom will help the teacher to manage the learning environment, and save much energy and wasted time. It's an important step to have organizational strategies in the classroom, for example: teach the students the routine of the classroom, be prompt to school or appointment,..

Using communication styles to create a comfortable, non threatening atmosphere: Teachers should create a friendly, non threatening classroom environment for their students, by using positive compliments, a welcome environment, where students feel comfortable and encouraged for learning, build activities and small group work that support students to work together and create prosocial behaviors.

Clearly establishing expectations for conduct: Set  clear classroom expectations that are taught with students to encourage positive behaviors, to provide students with a sense of safety and security, and to address students how to treat each other, and how they operate in the classroom to create a positive environment suitable for the learning process.

Advantages and purposes to establishing standards for classroom contact and routine procedures in the classroom.

 

• Maximizes on task behaviors and minimizes off task. 
• Helps teachers to ensure that students learn the expected materials as they progress in their learning process. 
• Secure the safety and comfort of the learning environment. More appreciating the importance of individual standards and procedures. 
• More understanding of standards and procedures when it is established in response to a need that has just become apparent. 
• Maintain decorum among students, schools and their visitors. 

Procedures for Classroom Routines

 

• Arrive at school on time with all required materials. 
• Completing administrative duties. 
  
• Accept responsibility for learning. 
• Listening to announcements. 
• Walk to line up at all times. 
• Talking role. 
• Turning in reports requesting  Individual help 
• Going to the restroom. 
• Speak aloud in the class.

Procedures for Smoothly Operating Classrooms.

Standards for classroom conduct:  

Standards for classroom contact are formalized statements that provide students with general guidelines for the types of behaviors that are required and those that are prohibited. Classroom conduct should be printed out and prominently displayed in the classroom. Also, there are routine procedures that should be applied and established in the classroom, but unlike classroom conduct, routine procedures applies only to a particular type of event and does not define a general principle for appropriate behavior. And they are usually through participation in discussions and activities. 

There are many standards for conduct. For example:

• Take advantage of learning opportunities. 
• Respect the rights of others. 
• Follow classroom and school rules and policies. 
• Create a comfortable and positive classroom environment and a secure and safe learning process for all members of the classroom community.
• Enhance cooperation with the teachers and classmates in the business of creating learning opportunities.

Classroom Management Level

A classroom management it's a process of building a positive classroom culture, it involves classroom experiences, rules, activities and procedures that let students know how the classroom is going to be run, and helps them to improve their skills, to be organized, focused and attentive in the classroom and on the given tasks. so they are academically Productive during the learning process. Classroom management is the art of ensuring that learning happens in your class, and the teacher should need to know how to manage the classroom, because if they are weak in it, then learning will not happen. Which is the point of education.