What Are Variables that Influence Your Classroom Community?

What are Variables that Influence your Classroom Community?

This is a very complex and loaded question. An unlimited amount of variables will and do influence what goes on it your classroom, and not every single one of them has a fix or a solution to what causes the problem. Four variables that I will be looking at that influence a teacher’s classroom community are culture and poverty, the increasing difficulty of the standards, student and teacher relationships, and family dynamics.

One of the main variables that can and will influence your classroom community is culture and poverty. The economic status of your student’s and their families will effect how they act in your classroom. Students need a stable environment. Instability in student’s lives, and students who do not know what will happen next in their lives, will have a very difficult time in a classroom learning and focusing. Social Norms will be very different between each culture. This will also impact your classroom. In schools, there is a set of hidden rules, which not every student will know or be able to understand, whether because of a difference in culture, or a different family economic status. This variable can impact children in multiple ways. They may have a hard time focusing in class, have a lack of parent involvement in their lives, a large disconnect between the teacher and the student or the student with other students due to misunderstandings and differences may be present. These can also impact how students act and behave and their actions and their reactions to certain scenarios and situations.

This variable is difficult to find a solution for or really control as a teacher as much of it is completely out of the teacher’s control. One thing that cou...

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...oing this can also enrich your student’s lives as they will be learning about their classmates and many different cultures. Another way to get parents involved in the classroom is to have the parents come in and talk about their occupation. It is never too early to have an emphasis on different jobs and it is important for children to learn about the different career choices they can achieve.

There are many different variables that can influence your classroom community and these are just a few of them. Every aspect of a child’s life directly impacts how they will behave in a classroom and that will impact the environment of the classroom. Four of the many variables that I focused on that can and will influence a teacher’s classroom community is culture and poverty, the increasing difficulty of the standards, student and teacher relationships, and family dynamics.