Classroom Management
Classroom management and discipline are foremost concerns for all teachers, particularly for new teachers, but even veteran teachers have students that are disruptive and sometimes just defiant. With these students, nothing you do seems to work. Classroom management combined with an effective discipline plan is the key.
Classroom Management and Organization
This training will focus on helping a teacher organize her classroom using routines and procedures that will encourage students to be on-task with minimum time wasted. Step back and take a look at your classroom—as an observer—you will see that inappropriate behaviors occur most often when students are not busy. They happen in the hall, on the playground, or in the restroom—when the teacher is not right there watching them. They happen in the classroom during transitions and when students finish up their work and start looking for something to do.
Students also have to know what behaviors you expect to occur. We cannot just tell them what we want, we have to teach them what appropriate behaviors are. So many of our students come from homes where manners and respect are not modeled. In this training, you will be taught techniques for teaching appropriate behaviors. You will be given strategies to develop a classroom of mutual respect.
Strategies for discipline that involve helping students make good choices, teaching appropriate behaviors, and high expectations for behavior will be emphasized. We will look at the difference in punishment and discipline. Natural consequences will be discussed as ways to prevent unacceptable behaviors and reinforce good ones. Teachers will learn how to build relationships of mutual respect and classrooms where there is a sense of community.
Attendees will examine time spent on paper work and daily tasks and time spent on teaching and learning. Ideas for saving time on these tasks and developing daily classroom routines and procedures will be given. There will opportunities for the participants to be involved in sharing ideas that have worked for them and learning new ways to manage their students’ learning and be organized for teaching.
The seminar is based on research by Dr. William Glasser, Harry Wong, Ruby Payne, and other experts in this field.
