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Cover Your Students…

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With SMOG

You will learn…

With is for Withitness

S is for SmoothnessM is for Momentum

O is for OverlappingG is for Grouping

Smog is a good thing!

Withitness

Get With It!

Withitnessis knowing what is going on in the classroom at all times.

You have eyes in theback of your head.

You can sense whensomething is going on.

eing With It does not mean you have to be fashionable or trendy.

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Whew!

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Principles of Withitness

• Pick the right troublemaker.

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• Prioritize the troubles.

• Jump on it, quick.

ithitness is only effective if students are convinced that you are aware of everything.

W

e sure to communicate

your awareness to your students.

B

Smoothnessis providing smooth transitions from one task to another.

Avoid abrupt changesin direction.

Preplan lessons to avoid unrelated problems

Presenting a complete and thorough presentation

tudents should be able to follow you.

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Momentumis keeping a lesson moving.

Slowdowns will lose the students attention.

Keep up the Momentum

No Jerkiness

Keep it Mooving!

Away withDangles,

Truncations,Thrusts and Flip

Flops

Down withThe Stimulus Bound andSlowdowns

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eep it moving and students won’t have time to get bored.

Overlappingis handling two or more situations at the same time.

You might call this“classroom management

multitasking”.

ultitask when working with groups or individuals.

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Justin! Sitback down and

get to work.

Quentin, tell mewhat your group

has come up withso far.

Groupingis managing everyoneas a group.

Call on studentsat random.

Have the class respond in unison.

o one

isleft

out.

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GroupingGroup Accountability: Hold

students accountable for their behavior and learning.

Group Alerting: Involve all students!

You have learned Jacob Kounin’sWith is for Withitness

S is for SmoothnessM is for Momentum

O is for OverlappingG is for Grouping

Go forth and teach With SMOG.

Sources

•Charles, C.M. Building Classroom Discipline. New York: Longman Publishers USA, 1996.

Go forth and teach With SMOG.

•Ro, H. Kounin, Jacob. 12 Dec 2008. WikiEd University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign <http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Kounin%2C_Jacob>