Practical Classroom Management

Practical Classroom Management:

Students engage in behavior that distracts themselves and other from a certain task.

Disruption can rage from simply failing to do something through distracting others, to sever agression to classmates and teachers.

Purpose:

Introduce a set of skills that enable teachers to establish

and maintain a classroom in which the amount of time students spend actively

engaged in learning is maximized while disruptions are minimized.

SS and teachers enter classroom with a set of expectations based from previous experiences.

What is Classroom Management?

Teaching strategies that promote the sefl-regulation of behavior by students, in order to take maximum advantage of the learning time.

Encourage and motivate each student to be fully engaged in the learning task, not to misbehave.

As appropriate behavior increase, problem behavior decrease.

Maximizes a positive and effective learning climate.

Physical Arrangement of the classroom.

Characterictics of Instruction

Student Interaction with Curriculum.

Students wandering around in confusion or bumping into each other could be the cause of inappropriate behavior.

Students need to be given a preview of what is to be covered or done.

Students need to understand the academic materia.

It is important to know if the material being presented is at a level that students can understand.

Teaching the Social Curriculum

The details of the social curriculum are unique to each teacher and classroom. This curriculum acts as a guide for student behavior.

Explainig your rules and expectations is very important fro students and it is beneficial to the classroom to spend a lot of time on it ate the beginning.

Classroom and school rules function as an explicit outline for students of classroom expectations.

Inconsistency among expectations, rules, and consequences makes learning the social curriculum more difficult.

Rules should be clearly and posotively stated.

Primary Prevention Model:

Prevention is the key to developing classroom management systems that maximize students engagement and minimize students misbehavior.

Deals with a range of problems and attends to them at three levels:

Universal

Selected

Intensive

Invloves being prepared to deal with any disruprtion and misbehavior at the classroom and promote self-regulations for each student.

One strategy that is unsuccessuful is attempting to completely ignore inappropriate classroom behavior.

What does not work for improving student behavior?

Zero tolerance strategies; harsh application of suspension and expulsion for minor misbehavior.

Harsh interpersonal tactics that may lead students to lose respect fro the teacher and discourage cooperation.

Overuse of office referral shifts the responsibility for managing the classroom to the office.

What DOES work for improving classroom behavior?

React calmly and remain collected.

Corrections should be delivered in a brief, unemotional, and consistent manner.

Depersonalizing behavior management interacions directs students away from a personal power struggle with the tacher and focuses their attention on learning the posted expectations, rules, and procedures.