More Classroom Management Stuff
Moving from Preventative Medicine to First
Aid and Chronic Care
At your tables, identify an age group
and answer the following questions:
1. What are the needs of your identified age group?
2. To what degree are the members of your age group
motivated to have those needs met?
3. What will they do to get their needs met?
4. How will they act if those needs aren’t met? Can you give
specific behaviors?
5. What can you do in your classroom to help meet their
needs?
Some Basic Needs:
Safety and Security
Love and Belonging
Esteem
To Know and Understand
Academic Needs
Jones & Jones
•Understand and value learning goals
•Understand the learning process
•Be actively involved in learning
•Relate subject matter to their lives
•Take responsibility for learning
•Following their interests
•Setting goals
•Experience success
•Receive appropriate rewards
More Academic Needs:
•See learning modeled
•Experience a safe, well-organized
learning environment
•Have time to integrate learning
•Have positive contact with peers
•Receive instructions matched to
their learning style
•Be involved in self-evaluating
their learning and effort
Brooks’s Seven Questions
• Am I in the right room?
• Where do I sit?
• What will we be doing this year?
• How will I be graded?
• Who is my teacher as a person?
• Will my teacher treat me as a human?
Recall your list of what you can do in your
classroom – procedures & routines.
How are most classrooms managed?
Punishment
• Such as?
• The less you use punishment, the more effective it becomes.
• Many traditional punishments are in direct conflict of
developmental needs!
• Works best for those who find school satisfying and need to
be reminded of appropriate behaviors (50%).
• Others are out for attention, power, revenge, or to boost self
worth.
• Jails are full of people who have been punished more than
once.
• How well does punishment meet student needs?
Establishing a Safe Climate
Respect and value students as
humans
1. Give them unconditional
positive regard.
2. Be attentive and interested
in them as humans as well
as students.
3. Don’t ridicule, embarrass,
or humiliate.
4. Avoid sarcasm.
Create a risk-free environment
1. Treat mistakes as a natural
part of learning.
2. Use wrong answers as
contributions.
3. Reword questions or
prompt student instead of
going to another student.
Creating a Safe Climate, con’t.
Include the Teacher as a
learner in the community.
1. Admit you don’t know.
2. Model the uses of
resources including
students.
3. Share your learning
experiences.
Assist students in developing
relationships.
1. Make it a classroom
practice (rule?) to be
respectful of each other.
2. Include conflict resolution
and problem solving skills
in the curriculum.
3. Teach students how to
work in a cooperative
group.
First Aid (for 80%):
1. The Evil Eye/Teacher
Look
2. The Space Invader
3. The Polite Whisper (Don’t
ask for or wait for a
response.)
4. The Friendly Request
(Consider changing your
behavior…)
5. The Request for Think
Time (Let me think about
it and let you know.)
Mistaken Needs/Goals (the
other 20%)
•Attention
•Power
•Revenge
•Self-esteem
In General:
Get good at “Overlapping”
1. Multitask.
2. Keep other students busy
while dealing with one.
3. Wait for natural breaks
and until students are on
task before dealing with a
problem.
Develop “Withitness”
1. Handle a problem
immediately before it
escalates.
2. Don’t punish the whole
class or the wrong student.
And…Take it Outside!
• Speak privately. Others are not an audience.
• Ask the student to explain what s/he things the problem is.
• Identify the real problem.
• Send “I-messages”
No! No! I
• Give choices.
didn’t do it!
“I-Messages”
1.
2.
3.
4.
State what the student did.
Explain the tangible difficulties it causes you.
State how it makes you feel.
Example: David, when you answer all the questions, I don’t
know if the other students know the answers. That makes
me feel unsure.
5. Example: Maria, when you refuse to participate in class, I
think that you might never learn important things. That
makes me feel worried.
6. Example: Maria, when you say you don’t care about what
we’re learning, I think you don’t care about your future.
That disappoints me.
Chronic Care:
Dealing with those in need of
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Find a way to give attention in a positive way.
Find a study buddy.
Give an optional time out.
Encourage when the student succeeds.
When the student raises a hand, call on him/her quickly.
Give jobs to receive legitimate attention (run errands, collect
papers, etc.)
Chronic Care:
Dealing with those in need of
1. Mendler says 70-80% of challenging student behavior is
attributable to outside factors.
2. Don’t grab the hook (even if you have to back down).
Keep calm and let the student cool down also.
3. Avoid and defuse direct confrontations.
4. Listen in private. Isolate.
5. Recognize the student’s feelings.
6. Give choices.
7. Give leadership roles.
8. Encourage independent thinking.
Chronic Care:
Dealing with those in need of
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Usually retaliation for hurt feelings.
Don’t use sarcasm or put-downs.
Deal with it privately.
Listen.
Form a positive relationship with the student.
Admit mistakes.
Be in control of your emotions.
Chronic Care:
Dealing with those in need of
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Give opportunities for success.
Peer tutor.
Make the environment safe.
De-emphasize grades, emphasize learning & improvement.
Give smaller chunks of information & structure activities
toward a goal.
6. Encourage (rather than praise). Later with this….
7. Help remediate.
8. Listen.
FIGHT! FIGHT!
1. Remain calm, talk gentle
yet firm.
2. Send for assistance.
3. Get rid of the audience.
Acknowledge feelings.
4. Offer alternatives.
5. Talk to students about
resolving problem before
the administrator comes.
Shooting Yourself in the Foot:
1. Be sarcastic.
2. Use a negative tone of voice (condescending).
3. Display negative body language (fists, jaw, facial expression,
stance).
4. Be inconsistent.
5. Play favorites.
6. Use put-downs.
7. Lose your temper.
8. Give public reprimands.
9. Be unfair (take away promised activities, nitpick grading, give
pop quizzes, give homework as punishment)
10. Be apathetic (forget names, ignore a student).
11. Be inflexible (due dates, test dates)
12. Lose your sense of humor.