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Classroom Management
"Management refers to your role as a teacher in creating a classroom environment where success is possible. It refers to how order is established and maintained in the classroom"
(Savage & Savage, 2010, p.6).
What is classroom management?
• It’s effective discipline• It’s being prepared for class• It’s motivating your students• It’s providing a safe, comfortable learning
environment• It’s building your students’ self esteem• It’s being creative and imaginative in daily
lessons
#1: Establish classroom rules immediately and enforce them consistently.#2: Set logical rules and consequences.#3: Use positive instead of negative language
Tips for classroom management
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• “So we started focusing on rules more! I made these great rules to use in my room and we began to make that the focus. Every day we would stand behind our chairs and my handy helper would point while the entire class recited the rules. Every day… we never missed.”
Rules and contracts• Have a contract
for students to sign at the beginning of the year
• Make sure students understand and know the rules and your expectations of them
Tips for classroom management #4: Make your students feel
responsible for their own learning environment.
#5: Praise efforts and achievements for their own sake, not for the sake of teacher approval.
#6: Be mindful of different learning paces and keep the students occupied.
Pass the positive
Here I just took an object and the kids passed it to the person I saw doing something good. So if there was a student with an undesired behavior – I would say oh thanks Johny for sitting quietly, please pass the fish to Amy who is sitting on her bottom.
Tips for classroom management#7: Avoid confrontations in
front of students.#8: Connect with the
parents.#9: Interactively model
behaviors.
Tips for classroom management#10: Get the attention of
every student before beginning class.
#11: Use proximity and directness to your advantage.
#12: Be organized.
5 steps to classroom management
1.Take advantage of the new school year or term to set the stage for cooperation
2. Be particularly prepared and organized
3. Minimize transition time 4. Utilize a communication
style that establishing non-threatening, comfortable environment
5. Clearly establish expectations for conduct
www.usu.edu/ata/docs/classroom_management.ppt