SuperSub Workshop
Angela B. Moore
Resource Teacher
Human Resources

 Reflect on the topic of classroom management.
 Locate the graphic organizer at your table called
“ Classroom Management KWL Chart .” Complete the first column called “What I Know” by writing in what you already feel you know about classroom management.
 Share with whole group.
 Reflect on what you WANT to know about classroom management, jot those ideas down in the second column.
 Find your partner (find someone with the same color name tent as yourself) and share your WANT column.

 Participants will be able to describe effective teaching, identify strategies for successful classroom management, and implement strategies in the classroom.

 Introduction and Opening Activity
 Overview of Classroom Management
 Characteristics of an Effective Teacher and Classroom
 Making Positive Connections with Students
 Holding Your Ground with Inner Authority
 Classroom Management To Do List and Filler
Activities
 Closing Activity and Evaluation

 Arrive early. JCPS requires you to be at your assigned school fifteen minutes prior to school start time and fifteen minutes after dismissal.
 Dress for Success. Students and adults respond positively to professional appearance.
 Follow the teacher’s lesson
plan as provided for you.
 Engage students in meaningful instruction and initiate the lesson as soon as class begins.
Excerpt above from page 7 of the
JCPS Certified Substitute Teacher’s
Handbook

From the Jefferson County
Public Schools’ Certified
Substitute Teacher
Handbook, page 17
Classroom
Management http://web2.jefferson.k12.ky.us/ccg/jcpsform/SubTeacherHandbook.pdf

From the
Jefferson County Public
Schools’ Substitute
Teacher Handbook, page 17
Classroom management http://web2.jefferson.k12.ky.us/ccg/jcpsform/SubTeacherHandbook.pdf

 “Effective classroom management is essentially invisible.”
 WHO WE ARE
 How we hold ourselves internally and how we come across to our students
 WHAT WE DO
 Specific strategies for designing and maintaining a positive classroom environment, connecting with students, and taking care of business.

 Foundation
 Assume the Best
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Inner Authority
Ask for Help
Got Stress?
 Prevention
 Holding our Ground
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Positive Connections
Teaching Procedures
Consistency
Getting Ready
Lesson Design
From Rick Smith’s Conscious
Classroom Management

• Take a moment to visualize the best teacher you have seen in action.
• Brainstorm these characteristics on your paper in the thinking cloud .
• Locate your table’s paper teacher-doll.
• Discuss and jot down the characteristics of an effective teacher on the paper doll.

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Flexible.
Organized.
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Knowledgeable.
Sense of humor.
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Fair.
Patient.
Caring.
Good communicator.
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Reflective .
Firm.
Positive.
Consistent.
Enthusiastic.
Honest.
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Sometimes make mistakes.
Sometimes have bad days.
Sometimes feel helpless.
Sometimes feel overwhelmed.
Sometimes feel stressed.
Sometimes feel underappreciated.

Positive Assumptions
• They haven’t fully learned the appropriate behavior.
• They want to know that the classroom environment will be safe and structured.
• They are signaling the teacher to teach behavior more thoroughly or differently.
Negative Assumptions
• They are bad kids.
• They don’t want to learn.
• They are trying to hurt the teacher.

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Model the behavior we want.
Establish friendly, but appropriate , relationships.
Make a connection.
Maintain a high ratio of positive to negative statements.
Communicate high expectations.
Share control.
Negotiate and provide a choice.
 Choices should be authentic and legitimate.
Both choices should be acceptable to both teacher and student. Say each of your choices with equal amounts of enthusiasm.
From The Key Elements of Classroom Teaching by Fisher, Hoover, and McLeod

 Find your partner.
 Decide which one of you is the teacher and which one is the student.
 The student’s job is to get the teacher to allow him to leave the classroom. The teacher’s job is to communicate that the student cannot leave.
 The teacher may NOT raise his voice or tone or look away from the student. The student has no such limitations.
 The teacher’s vocabulary is now limited to the following words: “No. I understand, and the answer is no.”

 Consider avoiding the word “No” entirely. For example,
“Yes, you can go to your locker, as soon as the bell rings.”
 Don’t over-explain.
 Provide student with a time to come to you later. “We can discuss that in ten minutes after we finish this activity.”
 Do not blame.
 Do not complain.
 Provide no wiggle room.
 An effective “No” has no animosity, baiting, antagonism, sarcasm, attack, or humiliation.

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Greet students at the door.
Use proximity control.
Pause.
Maintain eye contact.
Say students’ names.
Use a firm yet soft voice.
Vary tone and volume, but do not yell.
Count backwards from 20 to 1.
Hold up a timer and play “Beat the Clock.”
Hold up a hand.
Get full silence before you continue.

 Ask a neighbor teacher to help you.
 Arrive early so you can be prepared.
 Bring a “toolkit” with you so you will be prepared to fill in a lesson. See
SuperSub Workshop schedule.
 Sample “Filler” Activities
 Reciprocal Teaching
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Highlights
The Big Picture
Predictions
Writing activity (reflect on day’s lesson, for example)
Icebreakers/Getting to
Know You activities

From The First 60 Days of Teaching by Robert L. DeBruyn

Breaux, A., & Whitaker, T. (2006). Seven Simple Secrets.
Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education.
DeBruyn, R. L. (2001). The First 60 Days of Teaching. Manhattan, KS:
The Master Teacher, Inc.
Fisher, J., Hoover, G., & McLeod, J. (2003). The Key Elements of
Classroom Management. Alexandria, VA: Association for
Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Rutherford, P. (2002). Why Didn’t I Learn This in College? Alexandria,
VA: Just ASK Publications.
Smith, R. (2004). Conscious Classroom Management.
San Rafael, CA: Conscious Teaching Publications.

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JCPS Certified Substitute Teachers’ Handbook http://web2.jefferson.k12.ky.us/ccg/jcpsform/SubTeacherHandbook.pdf
Resource Teacher – Human Resources Contact – Angela Moore
Email: angela.moore@jefferson.kyschools.us
Phone: (502)485-7069
JCPS Substitute Teachers’ Blog http://jcpssubs.wordpress.com
Link to this PowerPoint Presentation
 Online video tutorial

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