Classroom Reboot Revisiting Classroom Management Techniques MidYear Presented

Classroom Reboot Revisiting Classroom Management Techniques Mid-Year Presented by Heather Sparks, Math Instructional Facilitator

Impact ▪ “I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized. ” -Haim Ginott. Teacher and Child Avon Books, 1976

Preventative Strategies to Maximize On-Task Behavior 1. Planning efficient room arrangement = easy monitoring = fewer opportunities for distractions and disruptions 2. Establishing rules and procedures (teaching and reinforcing) 3. Reducing transition time between activities 4. Having with-it-ness, overlapping, smoothness, and momentum 5. Building a strong group focus and holding students accountable 6. Building variety into learning activities Classroom Management Research Kounin, Rosenshine, Weber, Everston, Emmer, Anderson

Self-Reflection Survey ▪ Circle a number from 1 to 10 (10 being the highest) for each group management skill. ▪ Once you have rated yourself on all 8 areas, place a sticky note on our class graph showing the area of greatest potential growth for you. (No need to put your name on the sticky note!)

Room Arrangement 1. Planning efficient room arrangement = easy monitoring = fewer opportunities for distractions and disruptions

Identifying Action Zones Think about your classroom. What part of your room is the “Action Zone”, or busiest area? Write this space on a sticky note. Describe your action zone to a partner. Explain any issues that may arise there.

Rules & Procedures 2. Establishing rules and procedures (teaching and reinforcing)

Revisiting Procedures ▪ On a sticky note, write down three procedures you will revisit with students tomorrow.

Time On Task 3. Reducing transition time between activities

Time Savers ▪ On a notecard, write down one strategy you have used that you consider a time saver. Describe it in detail so that someone else could adopt it.

Skillful Teachers 4. Having with-it-ness, overlapping, smoothness, and momentum

Student Accountability 5. Building a strong group focus and holding students accountable

Student Engagement 6. Building variety into learning activities

Brainstorming Carousel ▪ Number off from 1 to 8. Listen for your poster assignment. ▪ When you reach a poster, write your group’s consensus on the poster. Give enough detail that others will understand. ▪ When time is called, move to the next poster.

Scenario Sort ▪ With your partner, read each classroom scenario. Then, match each one with the preventative strategy the teacher is forgetting.

Revisit Self-Assessment ▪ On the back of your self-assessment, write at least one change you will make in your classroom starting tomorrow.

Exit Tickets & Door Prizes!