Positive Classroom Management

Positive Classroom Management

1. Things we can control

   • Accessible Curriculum
     • Realistic and clear expectations, how to respond appropriately, practice appropriate behaviour, transfer to other situations
     • Working with students' strengths to enhance learning
       • Beaty-O’Ferrall, Green, & Hanna (2010); Demirdag (2015)
       • Students WANT to succeed (following directions, completing work, appropriate responses)
       • Students as participants in their own education, feeling a sense of ownership around their own learning (problem solving, student choice, critical thinking)
     • Differentiated Instruction
       • Learning Styles
   • Student-teacher relationship
     • Positive classroom climate
       • Warm Demander
         • Everston & Weinstein (2006)
       • How can I extend what I do in my classroom to the rest of the school, home or community?
       • Belonging
       • Security
       • Mutual trust & respect
       • Non-judgemental
       • Specific Praise/ Encouragement
         • Briere, Simonsen, Sugai & Myers (2015; Manning & Bucher (2013)
     • Addressing disruptive behaviours
       • Supportive Approaches
         • Manning & Bucher (2013)
         • Mistaken Goals, Democratic Teaching,, and provide logical consequences
           • Manning & Bucher (2013)
           • Attention getting, power seeking, revenge, and feelings of inadequacy
           • Capable, connection, contribute
           • Barriers vs. Builders
         • Rights, freedom, justice and equality are upheld
         • Treat students as individuals and with dignity
         • Rules are understood and makes sense
         • Good use of zero tolerance policies is limited
       • attention, power, isolation
         • Manning & Bucher (2013)
       • Low (non-interventionist), medium (interactivist), and high (interventionist) teacher control appraoches
         • Sahin (2015)
       • Follow up discussions
         • Romi, Lewis, & Salkovsky (2015)
         • Acceptance of misbehaviour
         • Acknowledging the influence of misbehaviour on others
     • Addressing non-disruptive behaviours
       • Reinforce quickly and consistently
         • Goldstein & Brooks (2007)
   • Educate the whole child (Holistic Approach)
     • Social-emotional learning (not additional curriculum)
       • Goldstein & Brooks (2007)
       • Self-regulation
         • Alderman & MacDonald (2015)
         • inquiry based/problem based learning
         • Mindfullness
           • Gaines (2016)
       • Empathy
       • Understanding
       • Self-confidence
       • Self-discipline
       • Self-esteem
         • Demirdag (2015)
     • Morality
       • Fallona & Richardson (2006)
       • Character education
       • Influenced by teachers' beliefs and language
       • Virtues
       • Social responsibility
   • Assumptions
     • Brooks & Goldstein (2007)
     • Perceptions based on experiences
       • What assumptions or experiences do I have that may influence my mindset? How can I remove them as barriers to my students' learning? What can I control and what can I not?
     • Choice
     • Constantly evolving
     • Can be implied via tone of voice, body language and/or facial expressions
   • Motivation
     • Intrinsic
     • Extrinsic
   • How individual personality, experience, and beliefs influence classroom management techniques
     • Briesch, Briesch & Chafouleas (2015)
   • Inclusive Education
     • Accepting students with exceptionalities
       • Manning & Bucher (2013)
       • Knowledgeable about characteristics of students' exceptionalities
         • What is within their control and what is not
       • Exceptionalities include more than SEN, includes race, culture, ethnicity, SES, sexuality, etc.
         • Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Strategies
           • Metropolitan Center for Urban Education (2008)
           • Equity vs. Equality
             • Milner & Tenore (2010)
           • Power Structures Among Students
             • Milner & Tenore (2010)
           • Immersion into Students' Life Worlds
             • Milner & Tenore (2010)
           • Self in Relation to others
             • Milner & Tenore (2010)
           • Granting Students Entry into Teachers' Worlds
             • Milner & Tenore (2010)

2. Things we cannot control (not to say we cannot influence)

   • Other teacher's attitudes/mindsets
     • Brooks & Goldstein (2007)
   • Number of students
   • Who is in your class
     • Student's previous experiences
     • Home environment and/or experiences
     • Learning or behavioural challenges students may have
   • Does gender play a role in classroom management techniques and how those techniques are perceived by students?
   • Cultural norms/influences
   • Parental Involvement
   • What is being taught in teacher training programs
   • Funding
     • Professional Development, supports, and services offered by school districts/boards