Preventive Classroom Management: Jacob Kounin

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Preventive Classroom Management Jacob Kounin

• By
• Sarah Baker
• Yvette Howard
• Danielle Sanders

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Jacob Kounin

• Was an educational psychologist who specialized
  in classroom behavior and discipline.
• Kounin worked at Wayne State University.
• In the 1970s Kounin published two books
  Teachers and Children Discipline and Group
  Management in Classrooms

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Research Findings

• Believed that students should be actively
  involved in the classroom.
• Discipline should come from classroom management.
  
• Keys to engaging students came from organization
  and planning.

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Teaching Principles-Managing Behavior

• Withitness- the central factor in managing
  behavior, when the teacher knows what is going on
  with all students in all areas of the classroom.
• -Make all seats visible and be alert to all
  sights and sounds.
• Overlapping- attending to two or more things at
  once.

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Teaching PrinciplesLesson Management

• Group Alerting- gaining students full attention
  before moving on and giving new directions.
• Momentum- keep the lessons moving and make
  transitions smooth and in addition have effective
  conclusions.
• Smoothness- steady progress with easy
  transitions.
• Satiation- students only receiving all the
  information of a topic that they can tolerate. Do
  not over emphasize a specific topic for too long.

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Ripple Effect

• Occurs when the teacher corrects the behavior of
  one specific student or action and the rest of
  the class follows suit.
• Allows small misbehaviors to be stopped quickly
  before escalating.

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Conclusion

• Many have found that Kounins methods are great
  ideas, however, they are ineffective when put to
  use in the classroom. Using Kounins philosophy
  does not provide actions for misbehavior, only
  preventative solutions, which is not a conclusive
  method in classroom management.