Monday, February 16, 2009
Classroom Management
What is most important to be an effective classroom manager is to establish a smooth running classroom from the start of the school year. Behaviors that a teacher can engage in to better manage their classroom include developing smooth instructional procedures, the smoother a lesson the less disruptions. Also teachers can make instruction clear with clear work requirements. It is also important to outline what you want students to do during down times and have clear rules for the classroom that you don't break from. Lastly it is important to make academic work enjoyable, not a choir, and to listen to your students. If your students know that you care about them and their academic success they will be more responsive to them, which will make it easier to keep them on task.
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I agree with the Kounin study. How you first approach your students is how they will keep responding to you for the rest of the school year. One reason is because the teacher gets stuck in the same behaviors and it becomes routine. Therefore it is paramount that new teachers come up with a game plan of how they will respond and treat their environments before they get trampled over by being a teacher.
ReplyDeleteAs I look back and remember some of the comments I've heard from my mom (a former middle school math teacher), I remember her comparing teaching to babysitting quite often. I used to try and sympathize with her classroom woes. But I'm realizing that while she probably thought she had tried her best to establish a "smooth running classroom", as you say, she could have used a lot of help in that area. I know she did have quite a few students with behavior problems that detracted from the instruction time, but I'm sure the suggestions in this article would have helped immensely.
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