Teacher: If you only have two or so...it's good enough. So long as you know exactly what you need uh to do to answer this question appropriately. OK? Alright, so... personal insight questions. So I need to see all of your screens right now at number one. Proximity is-is such an important instrument in classroom management. Um, it's-it's a way of really making sure that you're, you work for the entire crowd. You have control of your entire classroom regardless of where your students sitting. Um, if you're consistently moving throughout the class period, you-you really are able to engage ALL of your students. So when I think of proximity in my classroom I think of areas. I think of three specific areas. Uh, I think of an area right where I am which I would consider being the red zone. Uh, I think of an area that's just outside that zone which is a yellow zone, if we're going to go with this you know traffic light symbols. And then uh, there's the area on the very outside and that will be your green area. So with the red area, these are students that are one hundred percent engaged.
My presence is right there. If they have a question they're more than likely to pop that hand up. Um, the students right on the outside of them, that's your yellow area. So, they're watching you, they're watching your moves, they're making eye contact with you. But the second you turn your head,
they-they may be the students that might turn to a friend and make eye contact with
them or nod their head, you know. Um, and then my green area, that's my
area that I need to get to probably next. Um, those are the students that are waiting
for me to turn my back. Those are the students who are watching every move because
they know I could easily... do this and then they're going to do something so... I'm never in just one spot, I'm always constantly moving and so those areas are constantly changing. And so it can just
take two steps to move one student from a red zone to a yellow zone. It could just
take two steps to move a-a green zone to a-a red zone. So just constantly moving,
you're going to have complete classroom management. Your students will know
that you are aware of what's going on and that... you know, you-you have control.
One of my favorite things about proximity other than it being a huge classroom management tool is that it really does build student rapport as well as uh student confidence. There are a lot of students who are afraid to ask questions and if you are parked at one point of your classroom and
you are not really moving, they're not going to want to raise their hand because then
they're worried about what other students are thinking of them or whether it's a dumb question. If you're walking through your classroom and you are constantly moving, you'll notice that as your walking, those hands are going to pop up wherever you are. And so...you're building that confidence
by immediately giving them the feedback they want. You're looking at their work to make sure that they're accessing the standard or skill. You're getting that immediate formative feedback but you're also building that rapport with that student as well. You're being approachable for that student.
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