Classroom Management

Classroom management is a challangeing task to accomplish. Teachers are expected to create an environment that enhances learning and creates and maintains a positive, productive classroom atmosphere conducive to learning. In order to achieve this task, teachers must take into consideration class size, amount of students, and family life in order to produce effective classroom management techniques.

Some ways that teachers can have effective classroom management techniques is to incorporate the following: to develop a better strategy to manage misbehaviors (such as time outs), make classroom rules, and to have a successful plan of action during transition time throughout the course of the days activities.

There are two reasons that help to explain why children misbehave: to gain something such as a toy or the teachers' attention and to avoid something such as discipline and/or homework. When a manage approach is not working we need to regain control with the use of verbal redirecting, positive words of encouragement, and reevaluate academic lesson to make learning more age appropriate so children are not easily distracted or bored. In addition, include students in their own behavior change programs through the use of self monitoring which will allow students to record their behaviors.

Time Out is one strategy that is misused often and can be an effective tool that will most often redirect misbehaviors. Time out areas should not be considered a place but a process where the opportunity to get reinforced are withdrawn. For the most part, time outs should be done in the classroom where a child is removed and placed in a quiet, non-intimidating area.

Classroom rules are effective when teachers use guidelines to create orderly, productive classrooms that teach appropriate social skills along with the academic curriculum. Teachers must remember that too many rules can make it difficult for students to comply and for teachers to enforce. When students play an active role, they begin to learn the rules, and they are more inclined to have rule ownership. The rules become their rules, not ours.

Transition time should be done quickly and quietly so the next activity can be done on time. Teachers should make a list of transition rules and go over these rules on a daily basis. Our role as teachers is to monitor and praise appropriate behavior to the students' during transition time.

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