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1. Effective classroom management involves a wide range of skills and techniques used by teachers to keep students focused, orderly, and productive during class including behaviors, environment, expectations, materials, and activities.
2. It is important for teachers to adjust their classroom management strategies in response to changes in students, pedagogy, technology and other factors. Having a range of response options outlined in a classroom management menu allows teachers to appropriately address misbehaviors.
3. Example responses on a classroom management menu include behavioral reminders, academic adjustments, behavior conferences, and defusing techniques to calm students and prevent escalation. Adjusting classroom management helps minimize disruptions and maximize student learning.
1. Effective classroom management involves a wide range of skills and techniques used by teachers to keep students focused, orderly, and productive during class including behaviors, environment, expectations, materials, and activities.
2. It is important for teachers to adjust their classroom management strategies in response to changes in students, pedagogy, technology and other factors. Having a range of response options outlined in a classroom management menu allows teachers to appropriately address misbehaviors.
3. Example responses on a classroom management menu include behavioral reminders, academic adjustments, behavior conferences, and defusing techniques to calm students and prevent escalation. Adjusting classroom management helps minimize disruptions and maximize student learning.
1. Effective classroom management involves a wide range of skills and techniques used by teachers to keep students focused, orderly, and productive during class including behaviors, environment, expectations, materials, and activities.
2. It is important for teachers to adjust their classroom management strategies in response to changes in students, pedagogy, technology and other factors. Having a range of response options outlined in a classroom management menu allows teachers to appropriately address misbehaviors.
3. Example responses on a classroom management menu include behavioral reminders, academic adjustments, behavior conferences, and defusing techniques to calm students and prevent escalation. Adjusting classroom management helps minimize disruptions and maximize student learning.
CHANGE MANAGEMENT ADJUSTMENT - to control change; and - to help people to adapt to change.
"Change will not come if
The starting point for successful change is to we wait for some other communicate effectively the reasons why change is person, or if we wait for needed! some other time. We are Honest communication about the issues and the the ones we've been proposed action helps people see the logic of change. waiting for. We are the change that we seek." Effective education helps address misconceptions about the change, including misinformation or inaccuracies. --- Barack Obama
What is CHANGE? Classroom Management
to make radically different,
to make a shift from one to another; Classroom management refers to the wide variety of skills to undergo a modification. and techniques that teachers use to keep students organized, orderly, focused, attentive, on task, and academically productive during a class. To most people, change is scary. It requires us to depart from the known, move towards an —A MORE ENCOMPASSING OR UPDATED VIEW OF uncertain end, and inevitably encounter a few CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT extends to everything that hiccups along the way. Why do we take on the teachers may do to facilitate or improve student learning, challenge? Without change, we cannot move which includes: forward as humans, or as institutions. behavior (a positive attitude, happy facial expressions, encouraging statements, the respect and fair treatment of students, etc.), environment (for example, a welcoming, well-lit Change management classroom filled with intellectually stimulating learning materials that’s organized to support - provides structure and oversight within specific learning activities), change to quell people’s apprehensions expectations (the quality of work that teachers and fears when it comes to the change expect students to produce, the ways that teachers expect students to behave toward other - a systematic approach to dealing with the students, the agreements that teachers make with transition or transformation of an students), organization's goals, processes or materials (the types of texts, equipment, and technologies other learning resources that teachers use), activities (the kinds of learning experiences that With effective change management, change is far teachers design to engage student interests, from scary. And with inspirational leaders at the passions, and intellectual curiosity). helm, change is inviting, it is fun, and it is energizing. In addition to strong leadership, sustainable change When classroom-management strategies are executed requires a: effectively, teachers minimize the behaviors that impede 1. guiding vision; learning for both individual students and groups of 2. skilled team members; students, while maximizing the behaviors that facilitate or 3. individual incentives; enhance learning. 4. adequate resources; and, 5. a plan of action. •Why CHANGE and ADJUSTMENT in CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT? -Teachers who can draw on a range of responses when dealing with common classroom misbehaviors are more Just as with any organization, change likely to keep those students in the classroom, resulting in management is relevant to schools and districts. fewer disruptions to instruction, enhanced teacher Education is an ever-evolving field. From new authority, and better learning outcomes for struggling pedagogies, new technology, new funding students (Sprick Borgmeier, & Nolet, 2002). parameters, and new expectations for graduates, change is a fixture of education. School leadership needs to be prepared for these shifts and capable of guiding staff along the way and in the face of uncertainty.
Handling common classroom problem
The Purpose Of Change Management: behaviors using a Classroom Menu Trends and Issues in Science and Math Education
7.) BEHAVIOR CONFERENCE
A behavior conference is a brief meeting between -A good organizing tool for teachers is to create a teacher and student to discuss the student's problem classroom menu that outlines a range of response options behavior(s). for behavior management and Example: discipline. (Marzano, Marzano, & Pickering, 2003). A non-compliant student is taken aside by the teacher for a brief in-class conference, in which the teacher establishes that the student is in control of her behavior, states the behavioral expectations for the classroom, and 1.) BEHAVIORAL REMINDER informs the student that she will be given a disciplinary This strategy is used when the student appears to be referral if her behaviors do not improve immediately. distracted or otherwise requires a simple reminder of (Fields, 2004) expected behaviors.
8.) DEFUSING TECHNIQUES
Example: Defusing techniques are any teacher actions taken to The teacher makes eye contact with the student who is calm a student or otherwise defuse a situation with the misbehaving and points to a classroom rules chart. potential for confrontation or emotional escalation. (Simonsen, Fairbanks, Briesch, Myers, & Sugai, 2008). Example: The teacher sends a student to the guidance counselor to 2.) ACADEMIC ADJUSTMENT discuss the issue(s) causing him anger. Academic adjustments can be useful when the teacher (Daly & Sterba, 2011) judges that the student's problem behaviors are triggered or exacerbated by the required academic task(s).
Example: BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT MENU:
The teacher allows the student additional time to complete an academic task. MIDDLE SCHOOL EXAMPLE (Kern, Bambara & Fogt, 2002) •Francine. is in a morning section of class, whispering to two of her friends sitting nearby. Mrs. Stevenson can see that the 3.) ENVIRONMENTAL ADJUSTMENT whispering is beginning to distract students in proximity to This strategy is used when the teacher judges that an Francine. environmental element (e.g., distracting activities, -Mrs. Stevenson, decides to develop a behavior management proximity of another student) is contributing to the student's problem behavior. menu to help her to respond more flexibly and effectively to common student misbehaviors in her classroom. Once that Example: menu is in place, Mrs. Stevenson is able to manage two The teacher moves the student's seat away from different student situations with success. distracting peers. -Behavioral Reminder . The teacher makes eye contact with (Kern & Clemens, 2007) Francine while teaching and puts a finger to her lips to signal that the student should stop talking and attend to instruction. 4.) WARNING -Environmental Adjustment. When Francine continues to A warning is a teacher statement informing the student talk to peers, the teacher moves her to a seat near the front of that continued misbehavior will be followed by a specific disciplinary consequence. the room, away from her friends and close to the teacher. -Warning. Francine continues to clown at her desk, making Example: faces and whispering comments to no one in particular. The The student is warned that continued misbehavior will teacher approaches her desk and tells Francine quietly that if result in the she continues to talk and distract other students, she will need teacher's calling the parent.(Simonsen, Fairbanks, Briesch, to stay after class for a teacher conference, which will probably Myers, & Sugai, 2008) make her late for lunch. Francine’s behaviors improve immediately. 5.) TIME OUT Time-out (from reinforcement) is a brief removal of the •Summarization student from the setting due to problem behaviors. -Generally speaking, effective teachers tend to display Examples: strong classroom-management skills, while the hallmark of the The teacher sends a misbehaving student to a neighboring inexperienced or less effective teacher is a disorderly classroom for 10 minutes, where the student is to sit alone classroom filled with students who are not working or paying and complete classwork. attention. (Yell, 1994)
6.) RESPONSE COST
Response cost is the taking away of privileges or other valued elements ('cost') in response to student misbehavior.
Example: A student is given 5 good-behavior points at the start of class--and then has one deducted for each incident of misbehavior. (DuPaul & Stoner, 2002)