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Using Technology as Classroom Management
Overview
This is a template for an inquiry project in a senior level early childhood course.
There are so many technology based resources geared towards classroom management that you can implement in your classroom. For this reason, it is easy to find one that is best suited for your class since there are so many options available. Technology is such a big part of today’s world and having it as a classroom management gives your students something fun to look forward to and guides them to reach certain goals within the resource.
Introduction and Purpose
Introduction
One of the most important aspects of classroom management is the ability to organize and manage students' behavior. This resource is designed to give new teachers a general guideline of how to implement and incorporate technology into their behavior management practices! This OER provides a plethora of various resources that can be used for various tasks such as assigning assignments, managing classroom transitions, and creating reward systems to help manage student behavior!
Within this Open Educational resource, we will be covering the following:
- Classroom Dojo
- Schoology
- Kahoot
- Mindfulness soundboards
Purpose
Using technology as a resource in classrooms is a great way to promote learning and cooperation between teachers and students in a positive and engaging way!
Below you will find all of the instructions and resources needed to incorporate all of these into your classroom routine!
Classroom Dojo And Mindfulness Sound Boards
Classroom Dojo
Ability to track students' behavior
Accessible to parents
Messages for parents to communicate with the teacher
Class Story to share moments
Dojo Classrooms
Create your classroom by adding all of your students.
When you click on each egg, you can give points to each student based on their performance.
In the class story tab, you're able to provide updates, pictures, and comments about whats going on in your classroom.
You can communicate with the parents through the class chat or they can privately message you through this tab.
Last, we have Dojo Islands. This can be used as a positive reward at the end of the week for good behaviors. Dojo Islands is a virtual world that has different learning based games and students are able to build their teamwork skills by playing.
Mindfulness Soundboards
Help children to practice mindfulness
Help children learn self-emotional regulation
The tool can be used for students who possess behavioral or emotional difficulties
Can create a personalized soundboard for each student
In order to create a mindfulness soundboard two apps are needed on your iPad, one is the pages app that is already included on your iPad! You can insert the template within the resource below!
The second app is the garage app, which is an app to create the sounds for your mindfulness board! Garage Band contains tons of different sound packages you can use for free!
There is also a recording option to record your own sounds!
Within the link attached below in section 2 resources, there is a more in-depth step by step by step guide to creating your own soundboards for your students! Your students can use their creativity to record whatever sounds they want! This hands-on process in making a tool for emotional regulation will help to allow your students to feel involved!
Schoology And Kahoot
Schoology
Allows teachers to create content and assignment
Perfect to connect with students in an online environment
This link provides an overview on Schoology and the basics about the websites.
This is a depiction of the dashboard, where students can find their different classes.
This screenshot shows a conversation between a student and their educator and how easy it is to communicate through the website.
Includes attendance, grade book, a platform for the posting of assignments and assessments
Gives the teacher the ability to provide feedback
Kahoot
Very popular classroom resource that can be used in all grade levels.
Very flexible, with thousands of pre-made games/quizzes or you can even make your own!
An interactive resource that keeps kids excited to learn!
Can be used for studying or even a mental check in!
Students can participate from any device! (Phone, Computer, Tablet)
When making a Kahoot, there are so may templates that can be used, depending on what the Kahoot will be going over! If you don't like any of the templates, you can create one from scratch!
On the Kahoot website/app you can save the past Kahoots that you have created or done in your classroom. This makes it easy to access the same topics to review or reuse for multiple classes!
At the end of each question, it shows how many people get the question right and how many people chose the other answer choices. The student and the teacher are the only ones that can see the individual answers, I think this is great because it doen't make any students feel left out when they get an answer wrong.
In the link that I provided there are step by step instructions on how to make and use your own Kahoot in the teacher perspective. There is also pros and cons to using Kahoot!
Final Conclusion
There are so many technology based resources geared towards classroom management that you can implement in your classroom. For this reason, it is easy to find one that is best suited for your class since there are so many options available. Technology is such a big part of today’s world and having it as a classroom management gives your students something fun to look forward to and guides them to reach certain goals within the resource.