Classroom Management Creating Productive Learning Environments What is

Classroom Management: Creating Productive Learning Environments What is classroom management?

�Productive Learning Environment – a classroom that is safe and orderly and focused on learning ◦ Central to effective classroom management ◦ Students are well behaved, emotional climate – relaxed & inviting ◦ Learning – Highest priority What is a Productive Learning Environment?

�Classroom management – all the actions teachers take to create an environment that supports academic & social-emotional learning ◦ Important – suggest that schools & teachers are in charge & know what they’re doing! �Contributes to learning and development �Students – more motivated to learn ◦ Learn more – well managed ◦ Emphasize – respect & responsibility ◦ Avoid – criticizing What is a Productive Learning Environment?

�Successful classroom management – begins with goals ◦ Guide out actions �Classroom management vs. discipline ◦ Management prevents problems from occurring �Effective Classroom Management: ◦ Creating a positive classroom climate ◦ Creating a community of learners ◦ Developing learner responsibility ◦ Maximizing time and opportunity for learning Goals of Classroom Management

� Creating a Positive Classroom Climate ◦ Learners feel physically & emotionally safe, personally connected to both their teacher & their peers, & worthy of love & respect ◦ Bullying/other harmful acts – not tolerated ◦ Positive classroom climate – essential � Creating a Community of Learners ◦ Positive emotional climate = learning community – a place where you & your students all work together to help everyone learn ◦ Involved all students ◦ Student help in developing procedures ◦ Respect for all Classroom Management

� Developing Learner Responsibility ◦ Helping students learn to be responsible – one of the biggest challenges ◦ Talk about it, teach it, help students understand the consequences for behaving irresponsibly ◦ Ongoing effort � Maximizing Time & Opportunities for Learning �Allocated time ◦ Amount of time a teacher/school designates for a content area �Instructional time ◦ Time left for teaching after routine management & administrative tasks �Engaged time ◦ Time students are paying attention & involved in learning activities �Academic learning time ◦ Student are successful while engaged in learning activities Classroom Management

�Communicating Caring �Teaching Effectively �Organizing Your Classroom �Preventing Problems through Planning Creating Productive Learning Environments

� Caring – refers to a teacher’s investment in the protection and development of young people ◦ Caring teacher – heart of productive learning environment � Research – students are motivated & learn more in classrooms where they believe teacher like, understand & empathize with them ◦ ◦ ◦ Call student by first name – learn names Greet students every day Use “we” & “our” Nonverbal communications (eye contact, smiling) Spend time with students Hold students to high standards Communicating Caring

�It’s impossible to create a productive learning environment without effective teaching �Close link between management & instruction ◦ Plan for classroom management & effective instruction Teaching Effectively

�Classroom organization – a professional skill that includes: ◦ Preparing materials in advance ◦ Starting classes and activities on time ◦ Making transitions quickly & smoothly �directions ◦ Creating well-established routines �Turning in papers, going to the restroom, lining up for lunch ◦ Essential for effective classroom management Organizing Your Classroom

�Developmental Differences in Students ◦ Different grade levels ◦ All students need caring teachers who have positive expectations for them & hold them to high standards �Creating Procedures & Rules ◦ Procedures – routines students following in their daily learning activities (how papers are turned in, when to sharpen pencils) ◦ Rules – guidelines that provide standards for acceptable classroom behavior. �When consistently enforced – reduce behavior problems & promote a feeling of pride & responsibility in the classroom community Preventing Problems through Planning

�Parent support – essential for student’s cooperation & motivation �Benefits: ◦ ◦ ◦ More positive attitudes & behaviors Higher long-term achievements Greater willingness to do homework Better attendance & graduation rates Greater enrollment in postsecondary education �Strategies: ◦ Send letters home ◦ Maintain communication frequently ◦ Emphasize students’ accomplishments (newsletters, e-mails, notes) Involving Parents

�Intervention – teacher action designed to increase desired behaviors or to eliminate student misbehavior and inattention. �Moving near student, calling on inattentive students to bring them back to the lesson, removing student Intervening When Misbehavior Occurs

Stop the misbehavior quickly & simply 2. Maintain the flow of your lesson 3. Help students learn from the experience 1. Three Goals of Intervening

�Demonstrate withitness & overlapping ◦ As a teacher – you know what is going on in your classroom & main the flow of the lesson ◦ Overlapping – multitasking �Be consistent & follow through ◦ Enforce rules �Keep verbal and nonverbal behaviors congruent ◦ Keep words, tone and body language consistent – NO mixed messages �Apply logical Consequences ◦ Use consequences that are related to the misbehavior Helping Students Understand Interventions

�Responding to Defiant Students ◦ Experts offer two suggestions: �Remain calm & avoid power struggle �Give the rest of the class an assignment ◦ Defiance often the result of negative studentteacher relationships ◦ Students – aggressive or impulsive and display temper tantrums ◦ Student refuses to leave classroom or physically violent – send a student to the front office Serious Management Problems

�Responding to Fighting ◦ Incidents of student aggression toward each other – more common than threats to teachers ◦ You must intervene – not physically- report it ◦ Goal – protect victim & other students ◦ Effective response � 1. Stop the incident 2. protect the victim 3. get help ◦ Experts recommend involving parents & other school personnel Serious Management Problems

�Responding to Bullying ◦ Bullying – a form of peer aggression that involves a systematic or repetitious abuse of power between students ◦ 44 states – passed antibullying laws ◦ Districts – zero tolerance policies ◦ Largely ineffective ◦ Threatens students’ feelings of safety & security in schools ◦ Teachers – central to help eliminate bullying Serious Management Problems