Classroom Management

Definition

Physical arrangements : Arrangement of any tangible objects in a classroom (either on the floor such as chairs and tables, or on the wall such as posters etc.)

Classroom rules

Addressing Serious Issues:
Aggression and Violence

Skills Needed

Importance

Intervening with
Problem Behaviors:
Communication and
Strategies

Classroom procedures

Collaboration with parents and other teachers

Increases meaningful academic learning and facilitates social and emotional growth

Decreases negative behaviours and increases time spent academically engaged

Establishes and sustains an orderly environment in the classroom

Skills and strategies that teachers use to organize instruction and maximize the productive use of their instructional time

The process by which teachers and schools create and maintain appropriate behaviour of students in classroom settings

Overlapping routines

Adapting

Withiness (eyes in the back of your head)

Leadership

Prevention : arranging the classroom environment conditions before the occurrence of a disruption

It is better to have few general rules covering many specific behaviors than having a long list of dos and don’ts

It is better to avoid the use of negative rules (the use of negative statement)

Lesson routines

Housekeeping

Administrative tasks

Student–teacher interactions

Student movement

Student–student interactions

Plan parents’ cooperation from the start

Collaborate with other teachers

Collective self-efficacy

School wide classroom management program

Phone or email

Face-to-face meetings as needed

Samples of student work

Maintain regular communication

Send home reports

Communication

Strategies

Use descriptive language

Show assertiveness

Establish problem ownership

Evaluate your rights in the situation at hand

State the problem to the student involved in terms of consequences to you and his/her peers

Express your feelings about the situation

Ask for what you want in a straightforward manner

Behaviorist strategies

Cognitive strategies

Sociocognitive strategies

Defiance

Violence

Instruct the class to continue with their assignment

Firmly request that the offender steps outside of the classroom to talk with you

Stay calm

First, stop the incident, by shouting or making a loud noise to draw students’ full attention to you

Second, protect the victim, by separating or isolating the victim from the offender

Third, get help, such as taking the students to the main office or calling security