Classroom Management
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Relationships!
By
Olavee Williams
Icebreaker
Workshop Objectives
• Analyze components of a classroom
management plan.
• Apply knowledge about how to
implement an effective classroom
management plan to promote positive
relationships.
What is Classroom Management?
What is Classroom
Management?
• A process that helps as ensures that
classroom lessons run smoothly.
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• Preventative measures in place to avoid
negative behaviors.
What is Classroom
Management?
• Actions taken to create and maintain a
learning environment conducive to successful
instruction: arranging the physical
environment of the classroom, establishing
rules and procedures, maintaining attention to
lessons and fostering engagement in
academic activities.
Why Classroom
Management ?
Activity
Components of a Successful
Classroom Management Plan
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Classroom Procedures
Behavior Management System
Classroom Arrangements
Relationship Building
Classroom Procedures
(See Video)
• Provide a framework for students to follow
from the beginning
g
g to the end of the day
y or
the beginning and ending of your class
session.
Behavior Management System
• Positively state expectations (short and concise)
• Rewards and consequences
• Visual so students can see them and monitor their
progress
• Tie in with school wide plan
• Follow through
Classroom Arrangement
• Make sure classroom arrangements
g
are
conducive to learning.
g
are free from obstructions and
• Arrangements
ensure student safety.
Team Building Activities
• Provide opportunities
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to build relationships
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with students.
• Provide students with opportunities to build
relationships with each other.
Activity
Creating Your Own Plan
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•
•
Create
Teach
Implement
Be Consistent!
Create
• Create a p
plan that fits yyour classroom
routines and schedules.
g that will help yyour classroom
• Include things
run smoothly.
• Tie in with school-wide positive behavior
support program if applicable.
Teach
• Once yyou have created yyour p
plan,, teach it to
your students.
y
• Teach it until theyy know what your
expectations are and it becomes a part of
them.
• Don’t take for granted that students know
what to do.
Implement
• Once the plan has been
taught
g to yyour students,,
implement it.
• Students are now held
accountable.
Activity
• Video
Other Tips and Strategies
• Use music to set the tone
• Greet your students at the door in the morning.
• Find something positive to say as they walk in the
door.
• Make students aware of what is coming next
next.
• Let students know of changes before they happen.
Other Tips and Strategies
• Have ideas for transitioning.
• Que cards for students to communicate with.
Closing
“You
You are the gate keeper of your
classroom, you control what comes
in and what goes out.
out.”
Olavee Williams
References
• https://www.msu.edu/user/cartersi/class
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