Withitness

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Withitness
By Robert L. Goetsch MAT 6318 Fall 2001

• Are you Withit in the Classroom?

?!
Stop!
Hi
?
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What is Withitness?
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Knowing Everything Thats Going on in your
Classroom.

• Your Students
• Your Environment
• Your Classroom Management
• Dangers and Liabilities

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Jacob S. Kounins Discipline Model
Withitness
Overlapping
Ripple Effect
Class Management
Transitions
Satiation
Group Alerting
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Ripple Effect
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Ripple Effect

• A Chain Reaction
• Correcting the misbehavior
• Early in the year
• Be firm and confident
• Positive
• Negative

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Withitness

• Awareness of whats going on in all parts of the
  classroom at all times.
• Having eyes in the back of the head.
• Students know that your watching them like a
  hawk.
• Keeping your "back to the wall.
• Timing

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Overlapping
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Overlapping

• Overlapping is attending to two or more events at
  the same time.
• Working multiple stations or groups.
• Students tend to stay on task.

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Transitions

• Smoothness and effectiveness.
• Focusing on key points.
• Time management.
• Well-established routines.
• Consistent signals.

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Group Alerting

• The ability to keep groups focused on the task.
• Maximizes active participation and keeps students
  engaged in learning.
• Holding students be accountable.
• Check for understanding.
• Call on students randomly.

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Satiation

• Maintaining Interest and Involvement.
• Providing students with a feeling of progress.
• Offering students challenges throughout the
  lesson.
• Being enthusiastic.
• Using a variety of teaching styles.

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Think of the following points

• Planning
• Preparing
• Anticipating
• Seeing where pupils need help.
• Scanning
• Dividing up your time
• Sensing

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• References
• Are You With It, by Deb Wuest, Learning
  Environment article, April1999,
  http//pe.central.vt.edu/climate/april99article.ht
  ml, http//www.proteacher.com/030001.shtml
• Kounin, J. (1977). Discipline and group
  management in classrooms. New York
• Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. 6/25/2001,
• http//inset.ul.ie/cm/prev/comment12.htm
• Ale Favela,
• http//web.csuchico.edu/ah24/kounin.htm
• EDF 312 Classroom Management, Kentucky Christian
  College, Dr. Darrel W. Fyffe, 6/25/2001,
  http//campus.kcc.edu/faculty/dfyffe/kounin.htm
• Thomas H. Allen, Ph.D., DEVELOPING A DISCIPLINE
  PLAN FOR YOU, 6/25/2001
• http//www.humboldt.edu/tha1/discip-options.html
  
• What We Know About Managing Classrooms, Carolyn
  M. Evertson, Alene H. Harris, 6/23/2001
• http//gopher.fsu.edu/slynn/evertsonharris1995.h
  tm
• Schoolwide and Classroom Disciplin, Kathleen
  Cotton
• http//www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/5/cu9.html
• Graphics by Clip Art Microsoft 2000