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- Title: Build a Positive Classroom Environment: Avoid Competition! (Classroom Idea-Sparkers)
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,Nonfiction,Family & Relationships,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
Description
Elementary teachers often instigate competition among their students through such common statements as: "Students who make 100 on the spelling test may have 10 minutes of extra center time" and "The most creatively written story this week will be placed on the bulletin board." While such pronouncements motivate some students into action, they strike fear in the hearts of others and cause them to give up before beginning a task. A positive classroom environment of safety and security may be spoiled unintentionally when a teacher attempts to motivate students to do their best work through competition with their peers. Competition belongs on the athletic field, but not in the classroom. Competition is so common in classrooms, however, that few question its existence or impact. Teachers of young children use it in order to control behavior. "I am looking for the quietest table to line up for lunch." "The students who clean up their center the best will get stickers." Forms of academic competition follow as teachers create instructional games intended to provide variety and motivation for children to learn new content and skills. However, competition can have ill effects on academic achievement as well as moral behavior, as illustrated in the following example: