Evaluating the IY Teacher Classroom Management TCM Programme

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Evaluating the IY Teacher Classroom Management
(TCM) Programme

• Pam Martin
• Co-funded by Gwynedd Education Authority
• and The Economic Social Research Council
• Supervised by Prof Judy Hutchings and Dr David
  Daley

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Teacher Classroom Management (TCM) Training

• Five sessions
• One day per month
• Fully certified trainers run groups
• Collaborative approach

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Some TCM principles

• Clear commands
• Lots of praise
• Ignoring minor misbehaviour
• Interacting with Invisible Kids
• Proximal Praise
• Encouragement
• Time-Out

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How does TCM help?

• Less disruptive behaviour
• More on-task behaviour
• Modelling appropriate social behaviour
• Reducing teacher and pupil stress
• Fostering structure

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Its a first!

• This research is the first to
• evaluate the IY TCM as a
• stand-alone programme.

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Pilot study

• Twenty-one classrooms
• Primary schools
• Recorded classroom and teacher interactions
• 10 Teachers were TCM trained, 11 teachers were
  not
• Observers blind to training

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Pilot study findings

• TCM trained teachers and Classrooms
• More compliance and less non-compliance
• Less negative
• More positive
• More Praise
• Less vague commands
• More positive Children

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How did we measure Classroom behaviour?

• The Teacher-Pupil
• Observation Tool
• (T-POT)
• Teacher behaviour
• Classroom
• Specific child (Index)

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The Main Event!

• 12 Classrooms in 11 Primary Schools
• 16 Teachers (some were job-sharing)
• Classroom Interactions
• Children interacting with each other
• Pupils interacting with the teacher
• The teacher interacting with the class
• Observed specific children too.

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• Observed 107 specific children (referred to as
  the Index child)
• 9 children from each class (bar 1!)
• Recruited on Teacher-completed SDQ
• 3 Low Difficulties Score
• 3 High Difficulties Score
• 3 Children with scores around the mean

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Findings

• TCM Teachers
• More Positive
• Clearer Commands
• TCM classrooms
• More On-Task
• More Compliance
• Less negatives in general (less deviance and less
  negative behaviours aimed at the teacher)

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Teacher Positives
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Non-Compliance
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High Difficulties ScoreOff-Task behaviour
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High TD Score Negative Behaviours aimed at the
Teacher
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Conclusions.?

• The TCM is successful at changing Teacher
  Behaviours
• TCM improves child behaviour too
• Improvements in Low Difficulties AND High
  Difficulties Children
• Effective without any other intervention

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What Next?

• Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) are funding
  TCM training
• Small-Scale Classroom Dina Evaluation
• Using TCM evaluation data to assess if classroom
  changes extend to the home environment
• Investigate whether the TCM reduces Teacher Stress

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Thanks for listening!
Any Questions?