60-days bulLETs — Jacob Kounin

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He is known as a classroom management theorist.

He is an educational theorist who focused on a teacher’s ability to affect

student behavior through instructional management.

He suggested that discipline and instruction can be utilized as one to

produce an effective classroom environment.

Through Jacob Kounin, the Ripple effect was discovered, which tells that
the student’s behavior influences other student’s behavior.

Kounin’s conclusion: the key to successful and effective classroom is not

how teachers correct misbehaviors, but how they prevent the
misbehavior from happening.

He created the good learning/teaching movements.

 withitness – teacher always knows what happens within the four
corners of the classroom
 overlapping – two separate situations happens at nearly the same
time
 momentum – the flow of the TL process
 smoothness – teacher should make lectures short to allow students
to group together and move around to gain more knowledge of the
content
 group focus –   teacher must be well organized, communicate their
expectations to their students, and hold them responsible for their
actions to encourage motivation and attention

Instructional Management — Focused on a teacher’s

Focus of Jacob ability to affect students behavior through instructional
Kounin's Theory management • Incorporated both the instructional and
disciplinary aspects of the classroom together. • Teachers
who use effective instructional management keep their
CLASSROOM students focused on learning tasks and minimize behavior
MANAGEMENT problems.
Preventive Discipline — measures many educators take to
avert misbehavior by keeping students engaged. We
believe that the best way to prevent classroom
Preventive Instructional
Discipline Management
misbehavior is to provide a stimulating curriculum that involves students so successfully that they spend little time
thinking of misbehaving.