• Define what “Classroom management” means for you.
• Then share your ideas with a partner and identify similarities and differences. • What is the basis of such definition you provided? CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT: DEFINITION • Richard (1990), classroom management is defined as an organisation and how a teacher controls the students’ behaviour so that the teaching and learning process can happen effectively.
• Alberto& Troutman (1986), classroom management is a
skill which requires the teacher to manage the time, space, resources and students´ behaviour in preparing a conductive learning environment. • Your classroom management is the way that you manage students´ learning by organising and controlling what happens in your classroom…. • Or the way that you consciously decide not to organize and control. • Or the way that you delegate or relinquish such control to the learners. • Your classroom management choices play a large part in creating the individual working atmosphere or your class—how it feels to be in a room with you as a teacher. • Such choices reflect what you believe about teaching and learning. • Behind each selection of a technique is an intention— the thing that you want to happen. THE AIMS OF CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT: • Encourage the desired behaviour from the students • Create positive learning environment • Form an interpersonal relationship between the teacher and students • Use the time allocated for learning to optimal • Encourage the involvement of students in the teaching and learning process • Reduce the disciplinary problems • Manage an effective routine • Students will become more independent CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT VS METHODOLOGY • The techniques of classroom management are independent of whichever method is used since they undelie all methods. • The most effective teaching and learning is going to happen when learners are actively involved, interested and engaged in their work. • All effective teaching requires an active momento-by- momento processing of the current situation and a flexible ever-changing reflection as to what might be the best thing to do next. • Good classroom management involves learning from experience, but never allowing that experience to put you into automatic pilot. KEY ELEMENTS IN CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
• The classroom • The teacher • The learner THE CLASSROOM
• The teaching/learning space and how best to organise it
and exploit what it offers. CLASSROOM LAYOUTS SETTING UP THE ROOM FOR SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES IMPROVING THE CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT
• Teachers’ main job is to create the conditions within
which learning is most likely to happen. • What kind of environment was it? It is a vital question to ask yourself (without reflecting on it, your are likely to uncritically reproduce learning environments that you grew up in as a child, even if you hated them at a time) THINK ABOUT THE FOLLOWING: • Atmosphere (physical and psychological aspects? • Learners’ view of me (authority, manager, colleague, etc.) • My view of my role as a teacher (What do I understand by a ‘teacher’?) • Rapport (relationships among participants) • Ownership of the room • Democracy (who will decide things?) • Respect REFLECT:
• Is your classroom a place that you feel happy to walk
into? • How do you think your students feel? • What small changes could make the biggest improvements? WATCH THE VIDEO AND PAY ATTENTION TO: – Classroom layout – Teacher’s actions – Atmosphere – Learners’ view of the teacher – Rapport – Ownership of the room – Democracy – Respect