A Classroom Management
Plan:
Using PowerPoint to Communicate
With Parents and Students
Jennifer Haberkorn
Rebecca Trieger
“The best methods, most carefully
planned programs, most intriguing
classroom centers or exciting and
delicious materials are useless without
discipline and management.” (Charney)
Management Plan Goals
Promote considerate and responsible
behavior.
Provide a productive classroom climate
with efficient, familiar routine.
Establish mechanism for regular
communication with parents.
Build feeling of community in the
classroom.
Basic Philosophy of Classroom
Management
Children need to have choice in how they
learn.
Children need to know what they are learning
is useful and purposeful.
Children need to feel comfortable in their
learning environment.
Rules give children a sense of boundaries and
help structure behavior.
Predictable routine is comforting.
Management Philosophies We
Use
Assertive Discipline (Canter & Canter)
Teaching students appropriate behavior.
Establishing a discipline plan that
provides structure and identifies
behavior limits.
Consistency in applying consequences.
Providing positive recognition.
Management Philosophies We
Use
Noncoercive Discipline (Glasser)
Establish class rules that lead to success.
Rules should be formulated by teachers and
students.
Invoke reasonable consequences following student
behavior.
Classroom meetings in which students and teachers
jointly discuss and find solutions to problems of
behavior.
To view QuickTime movie, click link on home page.
Management Philosophies We
Use
Positive Classroom Discipline (F. Jones)
Organize classroom environment to
minimize misbehavior.
Formulation of agreements or rules by
students and teachers.
Intrinsic incentives and social rewards
used to acknowledge appropriate
behavior.
Use of preferred activity time.
Why Use A Multimedia
Presentation?
Use of written text with visual graphics
increases likelihood that material will be
retained (Perry & Perry, 1998).
Visual images and/or animation, rather than
traditional lecture format, will be retained
better in long-term memory.
Allows for self-pacing of learning.
Presentation is always available for
viewing.
District 186 Faculty Survey:
Use of PowerPoint as Introduction to Classroom
Management Plan
Batch e-mail sent to 1,123 teachers.
Questions
If you use PowerPoint to introduce your
classroom management plan to students or
parents, why did you choose this format?
How was the presentation received?
23 responded that they currently use a
multimedia presentation.
District 186 Faculty Survey:
Use of PowerPoint as Introduction to Classroom
Management Plan
Responses
Looping of presentation allows flexible
viewing.
Teachers have more time to spend
addressing specific parent concerns.
Highlights application of available
technologies.
Guides teacher discussion and helps
maintain focus.
District 186 Faculty Survey:
Use of PowerPoint as Introduction to Classroom
Management Plan
Responses (continued)
An attention grabbing, high interest
means of communication.
The visual element reinforces the
auditory.
Easy to print so that parents have a
copy to take home.
All parent comments very positive.
Examples on the Web
Our Classroom Rules: Mrs. Kennedy’s
Second Grade
Introduction to Upper School Art: Mr.
Zimmer
Mrs. Rouix Classroom Rules
Mrs. Wagner’s Classroom Rules
Project Development
We met several times to outline the
project, divide responsibilities and
compile our work.
We both researched the use of
PowerPoint presentations for
sharing classroom management
plans.
Project Development
Jennifer emailed survey to District 186
faculty, compiled responses and
researched other examples on the
Internet.
Becky outlined goals and philosophies.
We worked together to create the
QuickTime movie and this PowerPoint
presentation.
Project Development
We each created our own PowerPoint
presentation specific to our classrooms.
Jennifer modified her existing presentation to
incorporate ideas from the Charles text and to
align her classroom management system with a
proposed school-wide system to be initiated at
her school in 2001-2002.
Becky created her presentation and will use it
next year for her new (?) classroom position.
Bibliography
Charles, C.M. Building Classroom
Management, Longman, New York, 1999.
Behavior Report
CanTeach: Classroom Management, Discipline
& Organization
Creative Classroom Online: One Computer as
a Presentation Tool.
ISTE: Research on Multimedia in Education.
Bibliography
Meloy, Jeanne. Classroom Handbook,
Springfield Ball Charter School, Springfield,
IL, 2000-2001.
Multimedia Presentations: Workshop
Summary.
PBIS Guide for Sandburg School, 2000-2001
(Copies available from Jennifer Haberkorn).
Reach for the Stars: Conducting Classroom
Meetings
Bibliography
Sycamore Teachers Use Multimedia in Backto-School Night Presentations , Claremont
Unified School District, 1999.
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