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CLASSROOM ORGANIZATION and ROUTINES
Layna Lupo
April 25, 2016
SERP 475
Questions about Organization
1) What are the daily and weekly
schedules? Provide copies.
2) What happens when students dont
complete/turn in assignments and/or
forget materials? Explain and give an
example.
How this looks in my classroom
For the daily schedule.
Weekly is on a Google doc. with all the
teachers.
If students dont turn work in, then they
receive a zero. However, students get
multiple chances to turn in missing
assignments. They can come before or
after school to work with the teacher on
getting the assignments done or they can
turn them all in at once. For example, there
was this one student that never took notes
or completed their homework/ in class
assignments and was failing the class. So,
the student came in one afternoon and
redid all the work to get his grade back up
so he could play sports.
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3) What happens when students are
absent and/or missing assignments?
Explain and give an example.
4) Where are materials, equipment, and
resources located and how do students
gain access to them? Provide a floor
plan of your classroom to illustrate your
answer. Describe routines that are in
place.
5) How and when do students move
about the classroom and for what
purposes? Describe routines or
procedures that are in place.
Many of the students either ditch or have
poor attendance thus, causing many
missing assignments. It is up to the
students to get the work they have missed
and turn it back into the teacher. The
teacher has a basket on her desk where
they turn in missing assignments. Similar
to this one
All needed material for the class period is
handed to them as they walk through the
classroom doors. Once they are in they
look on the board to see what side of the
room they were assigned to. From there if
any students walk in late all extra copies
are located in the back of the room on a
table. The class looks like this but with a
half wall in the middle.
Students move about the classroom
whenever they want and for whatever
purpose. The only procedure in place is to
ask to go to the restroom then to put your
name and time on the white board yet,
many of the students dont ask to go. There
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6) When are students allowed to sharpen The students can sharpen their pencils
pencils, use the restroom, get drinks of
water, get materials or equipment?
Describe routines or procedures that are
in place.
7) How are seating arrangements
determined? Who decides? Teacher or
students or teacher and students together? students walk in they find their name and
8) In general, how is the classroom
organized and arranged? Is there good
flow? How would you change or
modify the arrangement, if it were your
classroom? Why would you make those
changes?
9) What are students expected to do as
they enter the classroom and prepare for
instruction to begin? Describe any
routines or procedures that are in place.
Describe any teacher cues used. Give
an example of each a procedure and a
teacher cue.
10) What are students expected to do
before they are dismissed from the
classroom? How are students dismissed?
Describe the routines or procedures used
is no consequence for the students if they
get up in the middle of class or if they walk
out of the classroom.
whenever they need because it is in the
back of the room on a table. Typically
drinks of water need to be asked by the
teacher and they will always let them go.
The water fountain is right outside the
classroom. If there is any request besides
the bathroom then the students typically
ask the teacher.
The classroom holds 50-60 students so
they are typically split in half. As the
go on their assigned side. The teachers try
to strategically pick what side the students
go on.
I feel there is a great flow in the beginning
of class however, during class is when
there becomes an issue. I think for this
class I would have assigned seats and
continuous work so the students do not
have a chance to get up and move about
the class. I feel like with both of those
things it would lower the behavioral
problems that occur in the class.
Students are expected to get the bell work
worksheet from the teacher as they walk
through the door. Then, the students are to
look for their name on the board and go to
what side of the room they are assigned.
From there they are to sit and wait for the
next set of directions. The teacher usually
tells the class to quiet down. If the class
doesnt quiet down the teacher will
typically repeat that phrase until they
simmer down.
The students are expected to wait until the
bell rings before they leave the room and
turn in any assignments they may have
done.
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to dismiss students. Are they effective? The class is dismissed by the bell this is
Explain your answer. usually effective.

Classroom organization and Routines Paper

After observing the classroom organization and routines is clear they have a

system down. I think it is great they have a system in place because it is such a big

classroom. The best thing I have seen while I was there is having the teacher be at the

door handing out the worksheet for the day. Once they enter they know to look at the

board to see what side of the classroom they need to sit on.

The teachers all have the objectives on the board in with a main question, key

vocabulary, and homework. I have not seen any of the students use a calendar to write

down their homework. Also, I have not seeing the teacher direct the students attention to

the board when they ask what is for homework or what they missed yesterday. I think it is

great to have the learning objective on the board because during the lecture a teach can

anyways go back it.

I think this routine provided the class with organization to an extent. Then it

comes to class routine for bathroom or sharpening pencils they just get up and move

about. So there are always students moving around the classroom and leaving the

classroom. On the other hand, the students know not to leave the classroom until the bell

rings because if they do then it is a school wide punishment.