This week I am reading the classroom management section in How To Be An Effective Teacher The First Days Of School.
I believe that it is very important to welcome your students to class everyday. Doing this makes it look like you care about the students. This will help build a great relationship with students if they feel like you genuinely care for them. This is especially important to do on the first day of school. Standing at the door ready to greet your students is a great way to start off a successful year! Douglas Brooks found that a question students ask on the first day of school is "am I in the right room?" By standing at the door telling your students your name you minimize the risk of students being in the wrong classroom. "Finding the correct room on the first day of school can be one of the most frightening experience for a student"(Wong 105). With this being said don't greet students with a frown. Always make sure to "stand at the classroom door with a big smile and a ready handshake"(Wong 105). It is also nice to have a little welcome sign somewhere around your classroom to get students excited about the school year. Like Wong said "everything possible should be done to welcome the students and to make sure they know where to go"(Wong 107). All of this will make your start to a new year very successful. For my future classroom I would like to implement the greeting students everyday. This to me is something that I believe students notice. It makes them notice how you aren't just trying to teach them something but that you truly care for them.
