Classroom Management

1

Fundamental Tasks of Classroom Management

• Definition and Guiding Principles
• Lessons from Research and Practice

• Review the guiding principles of classroom management, and identify how it differs from discipline.
• Examine some of the considerations and special circumstances related to classroom management.

2

Establishing an Environment for Learning

• The Physical Environments
• Positive Student Relationships
• Student Behavior Expectations
• Students with Special Needs

• Design a classroom setting that is safe, functional, and compatible with academic and social goals.
• Review the research on effective classroom management and the environment necessary for students’ success.
• Discuss why showing care and respect for students is important to classroom management and rapport building.
• Review the different ways that teachers can build caring relationships, and consider how the strategies can influence classroom practices.
• Summarize the research on defining student expectations and how it can impact academic goals.
• Identify some important considerations and characteristics of expectations that should be employed over the first few days of school that help to lead to the successful management of a classroom.
• Review how classroom management strategies and techniques would be different for students with exceptionalities.
• Define childhood trauma and discuss the learning brain of a child facing trauma.
• Summarize how to build a caring and inclusive classroom for children that considers equity.

3

Midterm Review and Assessment

4

Increasing Opportunities to Learn

• Managing the Classroom
• Students' Motivations
• Managing Student Work Time

• Utilize basic schedule building and time management protocols to recognize how time on task can create opportunities for increased learning.
• Consider the considerations and routines necessary to ensure students reach academic success.
• Determine what it means to set realistic expectations and how to help students set them.
• Review the ways that setting/increasing student expectations can impact student academic and social outcomes.
• Consider what task value is and how routines and holding students accountable is part of positive classroom management.
• Define how independent work is part of the gradual release of responsibility and what is needed for students to be able to work independently.
• Summarize the findings on classroom dialogues and how they lead to positive communication and enhanced learning.
• Design a plan to ensure that students are able to work in groups effectively.

5

Response Strategies

• Responding to Student Behavior
• Preventing Misbehavior and Violence

• Identify what types of misbehavior would impact individual and whole-class student learning.
• Review the types of actions a teacher could take to help deal with and redirect students’ misbehaviors.
• Consider what more challenging misbehaviors would look like and how a teacher should appropriately respond.
• Review the problem-solving approach to dealing with more challenging misbehaviors.
• Summarize the findings regarding how to prevent violence from occurring.
• Consider what a teacher should do in situations where violence occurs and the protocols one should take in unsafe situations.

6

Final Review and Assessment

0

Statement of Academic Honesty and Integrity 

1

Video Reflection: Classroom Climate

25

1, 5

1

Approaches to Classroom Management

175

1, 5

2

Reflective Response: Classroom Seating Arrangements

25

2

Video Reflection: Classroom Norms and Values

25

2

Quiz #1

75

3

Establishing a Positive Environment

175

4

Reflective Response: Motivating Students

25

4

Classroom Management Plan

175

5

Video Reflection: Developing Management Strategies

25

5

Quiz #2

75

6

Behavior Plan Case Study

200

TOTAL

1,000