Classroom Management

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Classroom Management
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The Reflexive Classroom Manager Thomas G. Ryan,
1st Edition

• To increase the likelihood of bringing about a
  change in student behaviour, the teacher must
  first be willing to examine and change his or her
  own behaviour. (Levin Nolan, 2000, p. xiii)
• We teach who we are Self-Study

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Chapter One

• The Educators Toolbox Reflection via Action
  Research
• Classroom management refers to those actions of
  classroom teachers that create a positive
  classroom climate within which effective teaching
  and learning can occur. (Question Action,
  Reflection, Revision Action Research)

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• If students are successful and enjoy positive
  relationships with adults, they are generally
  more interested in school, engaged in learning
  activities, and interact with their peers and
  teachers. (Levin Nolan, 2004, p. xiii)
• Problem What tools do I need to achieve this.
• Answer Be Reflexive Be aware of your actions,
  words, thoughts self within the class!

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• Detentions, public reprimands, removed
  privileges, suspensions, calls to parent and
  failing grades seem to do little to motivate
  disruptive students toward appropriate behaviour.
  (Levin Nolan, 2004, p. xvii)

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Who are you?

• Who you are may be an unexamined element.
• Who you are in front of the class (teacher) may
  be unknown to you at this time.
• Teaching is a developmental journey (p. 11).
• You are teaching content and citizenship.

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• Dont compete with your students or assume the
  full responsibility for their learning. Learning
  is a dual responsibility. (Levin Nolan, 2004,
  p. xxiii)

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Task 1 - You Decide !

• Write a 3 page Classroom Management Plan
• 3 Elements Ch 6 in our text
• Statement of Philosophy (I believe)
• Key Elements within a plan (search )
• Your Rationale for the above stances (Why)
• 10 points For Task Completion Archived and
  handed back last class.
• Exemplars See Chapter 6

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• Teaching is . . . The use of preplanned
  behaviors, founded in learning principles and
  child development theory and directed toward both
  instructional delivery and classroom management,
  that increase the probability of affecting a
  positive change in student behavior (Levin
  Nolan, 2004, p.4).
• Chapter 6 of our text

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• . . . Effective classroom management is
  inseparable from effective instruction (Levin
  Nolan, 2000, p.7). Discipline or disciplino the
  latin root actually means to instruct.

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In this course . . .

• A good approach for teachers to adopt when
  studying classroom management is to experiment
  with different ways of adapting the principles
  discussed to their own classroom situations,
  gradually determining what set of principles best
  matches their own unique styles of teaching and
  the unique demands of their specific classroom
  settings (Martin, Sugarman McNamara, 2000,
  p.14). .
• This is a developmental journey, not an event,
  and has no endpoint! (Ryan, 2004)

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Homework

• Each group (table) will review a Chapter within
  our text and present this during class 2.
• So, 10 tables 10 Chapters
• Presentations will be 10-20 min and are not
  evaluated.

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