Research

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Research

• Kounin FPMS (Ch 5)
• Other Common Threads (Ch 7)

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Kounin Discipline through Classroom Management

• Preventing Misbehavior
• Managing movement
• Maintaining Group Focus

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Kounin Discipline through Classroom Management

• Preventing Misbehavior
• With-it-ness
• Awareness
• Presence
• Overlapping
• Multi-tasking

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Kounin Discipline through Classroom Management

• Managing movement
• Momentum
• Prepared
• Handling student questions
• Smoothness
• Stay on track
• Handling student questions
• Problems
• Dangling unresolved items
• Flip flop back and forth
• Thrust unrelated input
• Stimulus bound distraction by outside stimulus

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Kounin Discipline through Classroom Management

• Maintaining Group Focus (Transparency)
• Group alert
• This is important
• This could be a test question
• Raise your hand if you know the answer
• Encouraging accountability
• Circulate and check
• Put answers on the board
• Higher participation formats
• Write something down
• 10-2
• You Try
• At Task Observation

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Kounin Discipline through Classroom Management

• Transitions
• ROUTINE
• THOROUGH DIRECTIONS You Try In groups of four
  write a script to read to the class to give
  instructions to begin the Chromatography Lab.
  This will be read word for word to the class and
  should pertain specifically to getting the
  materials for the lab not the process of
  completing the lab. You may assume the students
  will be working at lab stations with running
  water.
• Video Watch a teacher - MLS/courses/cm/videos/9

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Kounin Discipline through Classroom Management

• Instructional Management
• Planning
• Objectives
• Like and English Essay
• Anticipate
• Think through
• Presenting Content Clearly Methods classes
• Checking for Understanding
• Beginning
• During
• At the end

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Kounin Discipline through Classroom Management

• Strengths
• Research Based
• Concrete
• Weaknesses
• Not applicable to group work
• Preventative not problem solving

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Chapter 7

• Four characteristics of effective behavior
  management (as identified through research)
• Observant monitoring
• Consistency
• Promptness
• Positive climate

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Observant Monitoring

• During Lessons
• See their faces
• Circulate
• Address all students (student interaction form)
• Don't talk to the chalkboard
• During Seatwork
• Begin with "you try"
• Circulate don't "chase hands"

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Consistency

• When might this be an exception?
• Common causes of inconsistency what should be
  done?
• Unreasonable/unworkable rules
• Lack of monitoring
• Lack of teacher support for the rule

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Promptness

• Suggested treatments
• Eye contact nonverbal cues - monitor
• State the correct procedure monitor
• State the assignment monitor
• Ask that behavior be stopped - monitor

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Positive Climate

• Set high expectation
• Convey confidence
• Provide verbal praise
• Avoid comparisons
• Use incentives when appropriate Ex homework
  pass

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Research Summary

• Kounin FPMS - Discipline through classroom
  procedures
• Common threads monitoring, consistency,
  promptness positive climate
• You Try Meet in your presentation groups to
  discuss Case 18 Suggest at least four places
  where Kounin/FPMS management routines could help.

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Assignment

• Chapter 5 Activities - Homework
• Activity 2 Once you have completed the
  activity, compare your response to the key in the
  Appendix. On your paper, record the number of
  items you listed that matched the key, the number
  you listed that were not on the key (put an
  asterisk by these items) and the number of items
  on the key that you did not list.
• Activity 3 Follow the same directions as
  activity 2.
• NOTE Chapter 9 is to be read as background
  information for your presentations. We will not
  discuss it in class and there is not homework
  assignment.