CLASSROOM AND WORKSHOP MANAGEMENT IN TVET CWM 510

CLASSROOM AND WORKSHOP MANAGEMENT IN TVET: (CWM 510 S) COLL Ms B Cloete T: 061 207 2789 E: bcloete@nust. na 28 February 2020

PRESCRIBED MATERIAL 1. Jacobs, M. , Vakalisa, N. C. G & Gawe, N. Teaching Learning Dynamics, 5 th Edition. 2. Additional Reading See your notes – Unit 1 - 4

Course aim • This course is designed to introduce students to the underpinning theories of classroom management and use of different strategies to improve classroom and workshop management.

Learning outcomes • Examine the different definitions of classroom and workshop management; • Analyse various theories of classroom and workshop management; • Discuss trainees’ profiles about their personal beliefs and styles of classroom and workshop management; • Investigate different strategies to improve classroom and workshop management; • Analyse various scenarios to understand complexities of classroom and workshop management; and • Implement action plans for effective classroom and workshop management

Keys words in Unit 1: 1. Classroom: A classroom is defined as a room in which a class of pupils or students is taught. 2. Workshop: A workshop is a room or building where things are made or repaired using machines and/or tools. 3. Management: Management refers to the process of dealing with or controlling things or people. 4. Classroom and workshop management: Classroom and workshop management as the methods and strategies an educator uses to maintain a classroom environment that is conducive to trainee success and learning.

What Is Classroom and workshop Management? • Methods & Strategies to maintain the classroom environment • Conducive to trainee success and learning • Not limited to address matters of discipline & management of student misbehaviour • Goes beyond that to incorporate all aspects that creates a conducive teaching and learning environment

Questions • Why is it important to have good classroom and workshop management skills and knowledge? • In what ways do the most successful trainers approach classroom & workshop management?

What Is Classroom and workshop Management? • A narrow view of classroom and workshop management sees it primarily as discipline and management of student misbehavior. • Others define Classroom and workshop management as the methods and strategies an educator uses to maintain a classroom environment that is conducive to trainee success and learning. • Classroom and workshop management is an umbrella term covering topics such as actions taken to create a productive, orderly learning environment to elicit changes in trainees’ behaviour and to help trainees fulfil their responsibilities more effectively • We can conclude that classroom and workshop does not simply refer to discipline and indiscipline by trainees, instead it goes further than that to mean the whole learning environment.

Angles that educators can take when looking at the issue of CWM. • Focus on issues of discipline and management of misbehaviour with theoretical foundations in behaviourist psychology, • Focus on issues of management of cultural heterogeneity in the classroom, • Focus on investigating teachers’ interpersonal motivating style” rooted in the self-determination theory (SDT) socio-cognitive framework, • Focus on trainees behaviours, • Focus on managing a classroom and workshop by taking into consideration the differences in cultural identity • Focus on what the trainers do to motivate trainee

What are the consequences of poor classroom management? • It will be difficult for learning to take place. • Teaching and learning are at stake when classrooms and workshops become highly disruptive and pupils ignore the trainer’s instructions and leadership.

Why is there a need for CWM in Vocational Training ? • Classroom and workshop management has changed from describing • • discipline practices and behavioural interventions to serving as a more holistic descriptor of trainers’ actions in orchestrating supportive learning environments and building community. It is difficult for learning to take place in chaotic environments. Teaching and learning are at stake when classrooms and workshops become highly disruptive and pupils ignore the trainer’s instructions and leadership. It is because of these chaotic and disruptive situations that trainers need to be equipped with classroom and workshop management strategies and techniques in order for real teaching and learning to take place. In other words, classroom management is a critical ingredient in the

Various types of demands and challenges trainers experience in the classroom and management. • workshop Disruptive trainees • • Failure to implement effective actions, Failure to positively asserting authority Task avoidance, Constant talking with classmates and talking out of turn, Verbal hostility towards peers and trainers, Indifference to study subject during classes, Damaging VTC stuff

Various types of demands and challenges trainers experience in the classroom and • workshop coming late, management. • • • walking around when expected to sit down, bullying, violence, refusing to follow the trainer’s instructions, simply ignoring the trainer are the most frequent reported disruptions reported by trainers

Various types of demands and challenges trainers experience in the classroom and • workshop coming late, management. • • • walking around when expected to sit down, bullying, violence, refusing to follow the trainer’s instructions, simply ignoring the trainer are the most frequent reported disruptions reported by trainers