2. Classroom Management
Classroom management refers to all the things a teacher does to organize
students, space, time and materials so that learning can take place with ease.
Classroom management allows for a comfortable working environment for
students.
Classroom management is closely linked to issues of motivation, discipline,
and respect.
3. The Problem
Classroom management is directly linked to student
academic achievement, teacher efficacy, and student
behavior.
4. Importance of Effective Classroom
Management
Will increase instructional and learning time
Will increase student achievement
Will foster an environment of productivity and community
Will allow students to become active participants in their
educational outcome
Will engage student in indoor and outdoor activities.
Will create discipline in classroom
5. Ineffective Classroom Management
No child left behind
makes all student scores
in regards to state
testing accountable.
Discipline students need
to be monitored and
discipline needs to be
maintained in the
classroom.
This makes it hard for
some teachers and
requires good planning.
6. Key Concepts in Effective Classroom
Management
Lesson planning and organization
Structured class time
Clear Expectations
Student engagement
Student motivation
Student interest
7.
8. Approaches of Management Problem
interventionist approach:
Base on behaviorist approach
Suggests that children develop as result of external
environmental conditions, such as reinforcement and
punishment.
The major goal of the interventionist approach is to maintain an
orderly and productive classroom.
Noninterventionist approach:
Based on humanistic and psychoanalytic theories of
development.
Suggests that the child develops from an inner unfolding of
potential.
9. Approaches of Management Problem
Goal of the noninterventionist approach is to enhance the personal growth and
freedom of the individual
Interactionist approach:
Based on social, Gestalt and developmental psychological theories.
views child's development as the interaction of inner and outer forces.
Goal of interactionist approach is, while concerning with the establishment of
rules, to place an emphasis on how these rules are established and on each
individual student's responsibility to follow these rules.
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11. Strategies to Minimize Problem
Start with planning
Classroom arrangement
Make Rules Understandable
Manage the time
Use variety of teaching methods
Equal Class participation
Avoid Confrontations in Front of Student
Rewards and consequences
Avoid favoritism
12. Once students are in the classroom, you'll continue with some of the
strategies for maintaining control.
Establish eye contact.
Move around the room and increase proximity to restless students.
Send a silent signal.
Give a quiet reminder.
Re-direct a student's attention.
Begin a new activity.
Offer a choice.
Use humor.
Provide positive reinforcement.
Wait quietly until everyone is on task.
Minute-by-minute monitoring
