Module 1
Introduction to
Classroom Management
TED 377
Methods in Sec. Ed.
Module 1
Students will explain the roles and
responsibilities (including confidential record
keeping and reporting) of classroom teachers to
motivate and manage all students in Secondary
programs.
Reading
• Read the following in the Duplass
textbook:
– Topic 6: “Learning Theories and Principles”
– Topic 15: “Student Behavior and Effective
Learning Environments”
Introduction to Classroom
Management
Introduction
• Classroom control is one of the greatest
concerns to beginning teachers.
Management
has been
compared to
driving a
truck down a
windy road
downhill.
Introductory Thoughts
What do you know already about
classroom management?
What are your concerns about classroom
management?
What would you like to learn in this
course?
Introductory Thoughts
What are the elements of a well managed
class?
Why do students misbehave/go off task?
Why Do Students Misbehave?
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Bored.
Testing rules.
Asserting independence.
Seeking attention.
Misunderstanding teachers’ expectations.
Emulating the behaviors of others.
Repeating behavior that was rewarded in
the past.
• Seeking peer approval.
Historical Background
• 1800’s:
– The era of classroom discipline and
punishment.
– Children are innately bad. Misbehavior can be
prevented by strictness and punishment.
Historical Background
• 1900’s:
– Thought that children misbehaved due to the
punitive system.
– Students were given more freedom in
deciding what they would learn (progressive
education).
– Teacher’s role was to provide a rich
classroom to stimulate learner curiosity.
Historical Background
• Today:
– Classroom control vs. classroom discipline.
• Control is part of classroom management:
– Prevent inappropriate behavior.
– Deal with inappropriate behavior.
– Help students develop self-control.
• Select management techniques that…
– Enhance student self-esteem.
– Help students learn how to assume control of their
behavior and ownership of their learning.
Historical Background
• Effective classroom management:
– Process of organizing and conducting a
classroom so that it maximizes student
learning.
Goals
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Three goals of classroom motivation and
management:
1. To keep students emotionally and physically safe.
2. To have students to pay attention, do what we ask,
and stretch as necessary to learn to the best of their
abilities.
3. To manage students in ways that will allow them
eventually to manage themselves.
If we are successful managers, students will trust
us and like being in our classrooms, enjoy
learning, and will grow increasingly responsible
and independent.
Why Is Classroom
Management Important?
• On Opening Day, Genny (one of your 27
first period seventh-grade students) gets
as far as your door before bursting out in
tears. She refuses to enter. What will you
do?
Why Is Classroom
Management Important?
• Bobby refuses to do homework. After you
give an assignment, Bobby announces to
you and the class that he does not want
any homework. “If you give me any
homework, I will throw it right in the
garbage.” What will you do?
Why Is Classroom
Management Important?
• About three weeks into the year, Bill (one
of your 25 second period students) throws
a tennis ball to his buddy Bob. Bob misses
and the class laughs. What will you do?
Why Is Classroom
Management Important?
• Fred’s dad has been invisible for the first
part of the year, but goes bonkers when
he sees Fred’s November report card. He
demands a meeting. In the meeting he
challenges you to “prove” that his some
earned such low grades. What will you
do?
Why Is Classroom
Management Important?
• You have a policy that students cannot
use the lav while you are lecturing. If they
do, it’s an automatic detention. Before and
after, OK, but not during! At about eleven
minutes after ten, Karen gets red in the
face, bounds out of her seat and, without
saying where she is going, dashes to the
lav. What will you do?
Most Important Part of
Classroom Management
• You will find that this course is far
less prescriptive than the modules
used in TED 271 Classroom
Management.
• YOU are the central issue in
classroom management. Therefore,
this course should be about YOU.
• This course is less about information
(though there is new material) and
more about YOU.
A Classroom Management
System Includes…
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Assessment system.
Grading system.
Attendance policy.
Homework policy.
Rules, and how you will communicate
them to students.
A Classroom Management
System Includes…
• How you intend to prevent inappropriate
behaviors.
• How you intend to motivate and consequate
appropriate behaviors.
• How you will react to “common” and also more
challenging behaviors.
• How you will record behavior (good and bad).
• How you will address harassment and bullying
(including cyerbullying).
A Classroom Management
System Includes…
• How you will address substance abuse.
• How you will make referrals and interact
with professional colleagues.
• How you will communicate with parents.
• How parents can communicate with you.
• How parents can address medical/dietary
issues.
Culmination
• This course will culminate with you
articulating your own system of classroom
management.
Review:
MODULE 1
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Why do students misbehave?
Historical background.
Goals of classroom management.
Why is classroom management important?
Most important part of management.
Elements of a classroom management
system.