STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING LEARNING ROOM (
classroom/laboratory/studio etc.)
What is Classroom Management?
“The actions taken by the teachers to create and maintain a learning environment conducive for successful instruction.”
Evertson & Weinstein
2006
What Classroom Management IS...
Creating a safe, inclusive environment for all students
Building strong, positive relationships with students
Understanding the unique adolescent body and mindset
Understanding the multi-cultural and individual differences within a classroom
Promoting a love for learning and success
Presenting engaging instruction
Consistent and fair discipline
Well-practiced routines
Stating simple and clear expectations for rules
Staging appropriate interventions
What Classroom Management is NOT:
Telling students what to do to make your life easier
Unengaging
Teaching lessons in the style you want to teach because it's easiest for you
A power struggle between teacher/student
Overlooking of adolescent needs
Geared toward the teacher's preferences
Inconsistent discipline or overlooking of problems
Classroom favoritism
Full of numerous, illogical, overbearing rules and consequences
Primary purpose is to gain control of the classroom
Good classroom management results in high levels of student engaged time.
To provide a conducive learning Environment to the learners
Best utilization of Classroom time. Social Development by inculcating social skills.
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
A strategy is a method or plan chosen to bring about a desired future, such as achievement of a goal or solution to a problem.
Five Strategies for Classroom Management
1. Planning2. Organization3. Communication4. Motivation5. Monitoring
1. Planning
.How to achieve desired goal
Providing flexible learning goals Establishing clear learning goals
2.
Organization
.Rules and procedures should be aligned with teaching strategies
Be patient with yourself and with your students.
Break the class period into two or three different activities.
3. Communication
.Communication should be effective Use assertive body language
Use appropriate tone of voice Don't talk too much Make eye contact by scanning the entire
class while you speak.
Talking informally with students before, during and after class about their interests
4. Motivation
.Create a learning environment that encourage social interaction
Provide the answer and ask for elaboration Allow and encourage ALL students to be part of classroom discussions
Encourage collaboration
5. Monitoring
.Monitor the activities Give hints or clues Question students during classroom discussions to check their
understanding of material being taught. Circulating around the classroom during seatwork and
engaging in one to one contacts with students about their work.
Assigning ,collecting and correcting homework ,recording completion and grades.
Conducting reviews with students to confirm their grasp of learning material.
Components of Classroom Management Good classroom management has three basic and necessary components:
Rules and Procedures Consequences Relationships
Rules
Classroom rules should be set cooperatively.
Rules need to be established as a result of meaningful classroom discussion.
Minimum rules with maximum consistency is the BEST guideline.
Procedures Procedures are usually unwritten, but have
been practiced enough so students know them.
Procedures need to be clearly stated, modeled, and practiced until ALL the students know them and become automatic.
Do not abide by the rules negative Consequences Abide by the rules positive Consequences
Consequences
Relationships
Teacher to Student Relationship
ModelingClear
Purpose and Strong
Guidance
Effective Instruction
Attentive to Student Needs
High Level of Cooperation
Disciplinary interventions as a way to manage the classroom:
The most effective deterrent of inappropriate behavior is good instruction!
After that comes physical presence. A friendly reminder. A firm reminder – in private
“Go to the office!!!!” should not be the first response unless the offense is totally reprehensible, dangerous, thoroughly disruptive and against a hard and fast school rule.
Classroom Set-up as a way to manage the classroom:
Make sure all students can see and hear clearly Arrangement is determined by learning activity (classroom discussion ,small group work etc.) Allow room and easy access for proximity control Think through class procedures and learning activities
and arrange the room in the best possible way. Make sure you have access to all parts of the room.
Feel free to assign seats, and change it will.
Minimize the disruptions caused by high traffic areas in the class.
Arrange to devote some of your bulletin board/display space to student work.
Physical appearance as a way to manage the
classroom:Display: Assigned duties Calendar Clock Emergency
information Maps Student Work Teaching Aids
Techniques for better classroom control
Plan your lessons to ensure you fill the period with learning activities.Come to class prepared.Show confidence in your teaching.Learn student names as quickly as possible.
Principles for successful Classroom Management
Teach learners to manage their behaviors. Students learn to be on task and engaged in the
learning activities that have planned for them. Deal with disruptive behaviors but also manage to
minimize off task and non disruptive behaviors.
Why Kids Misbehave?
Attention from peers or adults Attain power/control Revenge or Retaliation Feels Good/Play Fear of Failure Getting something Imitation
How to intervene: Classroom Rules Classroom Schedule Physical Space Attention Signal Beginning and Ending
Routines Student Work Classroom Management
Plan
How am I doing?
How do I know?
What am I going to do now?
Reflection