Seed to Harvest: Linking Development of Responsive Classroom Management to Teacher Effectiveness in Urban Schools

• In Event: 42.061 - Managing Classrooms: Beginning Teachers' Developing Emotions, Attitudes, and Beliefs and How They Translate Into Practice

Abstract

Taken from a larger study, this paper explores teacher candidates’ evolving understandings of classroom management during their preparation program, and then explores these understandings in depth through case studies of four exemplary teachers as they apply their understandings of classroom management within their classrooms in their second year of teaching. The findings underscore the importance of responsive classroom management as an empowering tool for teachers and students, and it highlights ways that teachers’ understandings of classroom management develop during their teacher preparation. Responsive classroom management served as a tool that fostered success for the teachers’ students, and in the process, preserved and strengthened their commitments to work in urban communities.

Authors

• Kim Stevens Barker, Augusta University

• Nancy Jo Schafer, Georgia State University