Classroom Management Optimize Learning Efficiency in Your Classroom

Classroom Management: Optimize Learning & Efficiency in Your Classroom Shelby Aaberg Scottsbluff High School 2013 -2014 School Year

Diagnosing Behaviors Exercise: Identify the behaviors by teachers and students http: //www. learnnc. org/lp/editions/everylearner/6691 Follow-up question: What do you think this class looked like on the first day of school?

The Seven Questions • • Am I in the right room? Where do I sit? What are the rules in this room? What will I be doing this semester? How will I be graded? Who is my teacher as a person? Will my teacher treat me fairly? Wong, H. K. , & Wong, R. T. (1998). The first days of school: How to be an effective teacher. Mountainview, CA: Harry K. Wong Publications

Discipline versus Procedures Discipline Procedures Concerns how students behave Concern how things are done Has penalties and rewards Have no penalties or rewards Wong, H. K. , & Wong, R. T. (1998). The first days of school: How to be an effective teacher. Mountainview, CA: Harry K. Wong Publications

Classroom Management Protocol STEP 1. Identify the behavior to the student. Tell the student the behavior you would prefer.

Classroom Management Protocol STEP 2. Conference 1 -on-1 with the student. Use your professional judgment in regards to time and place.

Classroom Management Protocol STEP 3. Make a personal phone call to the parent/guardian. Identify the problem you are seeing. Tell the parent/guardian you would like help with connecting with their child to correct the behavior.

Classroom Management Protocol STEP 4. If steps 1 -3 do not produce desired behavior, and the behavior continues to disrupt the learning environment, send the student to principal’s office. Email information on student behavior and actions taken to SHS Admin.

Common Sense • Be proactive in every situation • Usually staff knows something is going to happen before it happens • If we want to catch students doing something wrong, we could do it all day • Model the behavior you want to see, and be prepared to teach students how to behave • ISS assignment will be done by principals only

Professional Expectations • Leverage relationships • Communicate class rules and procedures effectively • Create and execute engaging lessons • Maximize class time • Let administrators handle discipline “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. ”

Shelby Aaberg Email: saaberg@sbps. net Teaching Blog: http: //mathleticism. net Twitter: @Shelby. Aaberg School Site: www. sbps. net/education/staff/st aff. php? sectionid=2541&