This chapter started off with talking about something you might believe to be an obivous in the classroom but is more important than you realize- maintaining activity flow. It is important to be able to know as a teacher when the students are grasping the content and you cna move on and whne the students may need some more support. It also touched on transition times which is something that I believe just comes with time. My current classroom now really struggles with transistioning from different acitivies and I can definitely see how much time it wastes. Another thing from this chapter that I found really interesting was the part on managing pullouts. I feel like this also comes wiht times, as it can be very different to manage these. In every classroom I have been in, there have been so many pullouts due to IEP's, ESE, and ELL and I realize how distracting it can be.
Levin/Nolan Ch. 8
The one thing I really noticed in this chapter that I definitely want to implement in my classroom was proactive intervention skills. For example, this would be praising a student's good behavior when they are doing something you like instead of constantly harping on the student with bad behavior. I have personally seen this to be very effective as a lot of kids WANT to please and WANT to be like their peers. This was probably my favorite out of the three discussed.
References:Levin, J., & Nolan, J. F. (2010). Principles of classroom management: A professional decision-making model, (6th Ed.). Boston: Pearson.Weinstein, C. S., Romano, M. E., & Mignano, A. J. (2011). Elementary classroom management:Lessons from research and practice, (5th Ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
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