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    Classroom Management:

    How to Be An Effective Teacher and Impact Student Lives


    Learning Targets
    Participants will:
    • Discover the difference between
    managing a classroom and
    disciplining a classroom
    • Learn characteristics of effective
    teachers and classrooms
    • Develop procedures for the first day
    of school
    “What you do on the first days of
    school will determine your success
    or failure for the rest of the school
    year.”
    A snapshot of an effective classroom looks like this:

    The students are greeted at the door.


    When students walk in the classroom there is an
    agenda posted that includes the schedule, bell
    work, and objective for learning.
    The students begin to work immediately without
    any direction from the teacher.
    Classroom Management
    Is NOT about
    DISCIPLINE

    Classroom Management
    Is about ORGANIZATION
    & CONSISTENCY
    3 Characteristics of an Effective Teacher
    • Positive Expectations
    • Classroom Management
    • Lesson Mastery

    Well-Managed Classroom+Positive Academic


    Expectations=Effective Classroom
    The Effective Teacher:

    1.Uses a script to organize the class the


    first week of school.
    2.Continually acquires knowledge and
    skills.
    3.Produces results.
    4.Impacts and touches lives.
    Some common observations on the importance of effective teachers:
    • The most effective teachers can produce 9 months or more of
    learning, essentially a full year, than an ineffective teacher.
    • Teacher expertise accounts for a greater difference in student
    performance-40 percent- than any other factor.
    • Students who have several effective teachers in a row make
    dramatic achievement gains, while those who have even two
    ineffective teachers in a row lose significant ground.
    • Teacher quality accounts for more than 90 percent of the variation
    in student achievement.
    • The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, not
    poverty—it is the effectiveness of the teacher.
    • As teacher effectiveness increases, lower-achieving students are
    the first to benefit.
    The most important thing to establish in the first
    week of school is…

    CONSISTENCY!
    The students know:
    What to DO
    What to LEARN
    The number one factor governing student
    learning is classroom management.

    The first day of school is the most


    important of the school year. Effective
    classroom management practices must
    begin on the first day of school!!!
    Having an Effective Discipline Plan

    The Effective Teacher:


    1.Thinks through a discipline plan before school begins and
    conveys the plan to students when school begins.
    2.Discusses the plan so students understand its logic and
    accept it as reasonable.
    3.Involves the home to help guarantee and enforce the
    plan.
    4.Uses discipline to help teach young people self-discipline
    and responsible behavior.
    REACTIVE
    vs.
    PROACTIVE
    The ineffective teacher or the teacher who doesn’t yet
    know what to do is a REACTIVE teacher. With no organized
    classroom structure, this teacher REACTS to every problem
    with yelling, screaming, punishments, threats, and coercion
    to whip the classroom into compliance. The reactive
    teacher goes home angry, tired, and stressed out.
    The effective teacher is a PROACTIVE teacher. Because 80 percent of classroom
    problems are caused by ineffective teachers, the effective teacher has a proactive plan
    to PREVENT problems from occurring. The effective teacher knows that the #1 problem
    in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines—the lack of a
    plan that organizes a classroom for academic success. The proactive teacher knows
    how to prevent problems and thus have a successful classroom. This teacher can go
    home at the end of the day happy, with the knowledge that students have learned.
    The basic structure for a discipline plan where the
    teacher is in charge has three parts:

    1. Rules/Guidelines: What the student is expected to follow.

    2. Consequences: What the student encounters if a rule or


    guideline is broken.
    3. Rewards: What the student receives for appropriate
    behavior.
    RULES/GUIDELINES
    • Used to set limits
    • Students need to feel that someone is in control and
    responsible for their environment—someone who not
    only sets the limits but also maintains them.
    • Function is to prevent or encourage behavior by clearly
    stating student expectations.
    • No more than 3-5
    Rules have CONSEQUENCES.
    • Positive consequences or REWARDS result when people
    abide by the rules.
    • Negative consequences or PENALTIES result when
    people break the rules.
    • Consequences are NOT punishments. The issue is
    CHOICE. Teach students that their actions or choices
    result in consequences. Successful people accept that
    life is a series of consequences and that they can be
    positive or negative.
    Two major differences between Discipline and
    Procedures:

    DISCIPLINE concerns how students BEHAVE.


    PROCEDURES concern how things ARE DONE.

    DISCIPLINE HAS penalties and rewards.


    PROCEDURES HAVE NO penalties or rewards.
    The Three Steps to Teaching Procedures

    1. Teach. State, explain, model, and demonstrate the procedure.

    2. Rehearse. Rehearse and practice the procedure under your


    supervision.

    3. Reinforce. Reteach, rehearse, practice, and reinforce the


    classroom procedure until it becomes a student habit or
    routine.
    Teach the Procedure Clearly
    • Effective teachers know what activities need to be done and
    have worked out procedures for each.

    • It is essential to have procedures ready for opening day


    The key to successful implementation of
    classroom procedures:

    PRACTICE!

    PRACTICE!!

    PRACTICE!!!
    Procedure Activity
    Resources
    • www.teachers.net
    • www.k6educators.about.com
    • www.effectiveteaching.com
    • www.effectiveclassroom.com
    • www.gazette.teachers.net
    • www.harrywong.com/firstfive
    • www.mathraps.com
    • www.theteachertoolkit.com
    • www.pbisworld.com
    • www.interventioncentral.org

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