Classroom and Behavior Management

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Classroom and Behavior Management

• Presented by Margit Myers
• Pennsylvania Service-Learning Alliance

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Focus of this presentation

• Identify the objectives of classroom and behavior
  management
• Tips and Suggestions
• Discuss ways of integrating classroom management
  into your 21CCLC site.

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Classroom Management

• All of the things teachers do to organize
  students, space, time and materials to maximize
  effective teaching and student learning
• Research has shown effectively managed classrooms
  and high student achievement are linked.

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Objectives

• Enhance student involvement and cooperation
• Establish a positive working environment
• (Wong and Wong, 1998)

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12 steps

• Howard Miller, Associate Professor of Education
  at Lincoln University (Jefferson City, Missouri)
  suggests 12 steps teachers can take at the
  beginning of the year to promote effective
  classroom management.

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• Develop a set of written expectations you can
  live with and enforce
• Be consistent. Be consistent. Be consistent.
• Be patient with yourself and with your students.
• Make parents your allies. Call early and often.
  When communicating a concern, be specific and
  descriptive.

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• Dont talk too much. Use the first 15 minutes of
  class for lectures or presentations, then get the
  students working.
• Break the class period into two or three
  different activities. Be sure each one segues
  smoothly into the next.
• Begin at the very beginning of each class period
  and end at the very end.
• Dont roll call. Take roll with class list while
  students are working.

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• Keep all students actively involved.
• Discipline individual students quietly and
  privately.
• Keep your sense of perspective AND your sense of
  humor!
• Know when to ask for help.

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Rules for making rules that work for you

• A rule must be stated or taught clearly enough so
  that everyone affected know what is expected
• The rule must be reasonable, meaning that the
  child can do what is expected
• The rule must be enforceable, meaning that the
  rule maker can get the behavior to happen

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Rules continued

• A rule must be enforced every time it is violated
  until the desired behavior is learned
• You must ignore irrelevant behavior.
• (William W. Wayson, 1985. Department of
  Educational Policy and Leadership, The Ohio State
  University )

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Have Students set the Rules!

• School "Rules"! Ten Activities for Establishing
  Classroom Rules
• http//www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/less
  on274.shtml
• Simon Gratz High School Code of Ethics
• http//www.gratzclusterydslc.org

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Behavior Management

• Teacher activities designed to promote positive
  behaviors in students
• Self-discipline is the goal of all behavior
  management
• Activities are individualized based on each
  child's behavioral needs

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Objectives

• Decrease antisocial and disruptive behaviors
• Increase appropriate pro-social behaviors
• (Wong and Wong, 1998)

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Suggestions

• Set limits for behavior by telling students your
  tolerance level.
• Ignore behaviors that may possibly increase by
  attending to them.
• Develop a signal to let students know behavior is
  unacceptable.
• Reinforce students for appropriate behavior.

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Suggestions Continued

• Provide students with breaks from work when they
  become agitated or bored.
• Redirect bored students back to task by offering
  to help, discussing the assignment or
  complimenting the student's accomplishment on the
  completed part of the task.
• Make a direct appeal to the student's sense of
  fairness.
• (Wong and Wong, 1998)

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Rewards and Consequences

• How do you reward or redirect students at your
  21CCLC site?

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Resources

• Behavior and Classroom Management
• http//www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/7315/subjects
  /behavior.html
• Proteacher.com collection of ideas
• http//www.proteacher.com/030001.shtml
• Learning Disabilities Online
• http//www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/social_skills/b
  ehavior_management.html

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Resources Continued

• Tips for Parents (Spanish version, too)
• http//www.adda-sr.org/BehaviorManagementIndex.htm
  
• Dr. Macs Behavior Management Advice
• http//maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/pub/eres/EDSPC715_
  MCINTYRE/715HomePage.html
• Teach-nologys Behavior Management
• http//www.teach-nology.com/teachers/special_ed/be
  havior_mgt/

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Contact Information

• Margit Myers
• Pennsylvania Service-Learning Alliance
• Phone [phone]
• Email margitamyers_at_yahoo.com
• http//21cclc.paservicelearning.org