MOSONES, MIU MAE O.
BSED 3B
TOPIC 7: Management of Learner Behaviour
Try this!
BEHAVE IT OR NOT: Focus on one of your previous classroom (either elementary or high school
days) and describe the learning environment.Describe how your former teacher deals in the learning
environment by checking( ) the box that corresponds what you have observed in your previous class.
YES
1. Does the teacher expect you and other students
to respond according to how the lesson was
taught?
2. Does the teacher provide you and other
students with opportunities to engage in
activities of their choice?
3. Does the teacher provide you and other
students immediate feedback like praises or
grades?
4. Is the classroom environment arranged so that
you and other students can freely explore your
interests?
5. Is the classroom environment arranged so that
you and other students can easily collaborate?
6. Does the teacher immediately correct the
mistakes made by you and other students?
7. Does the teacher guide you and other students
to discover your own mistakes?
8. Does the teacher provide you and other
students with opportunities to succeed?
9. Does the teacher allow you and other students
to commit mistakes until you are able to
correct these errors on your own?
10. Is the student-teacher relationship cordial?
11. Can you and other students freely express your
thoughts and ideas in class?
12. Does the teacher listen to you and other
students ideas?
Source: Field Study 1 – A Guide for 21st Century Student Teachers (Pawilen, et.al.,2019)
Think ahead!
NO REMARKS
Because teachers expects students to listen
to their lesson. Proving that students are
listening to the discussion, they could
answer questions correctly.
They allow students to explore with the
activities they prepared.
Sometimes not, if we doesn’t have enough
time to have the feedbacks. Yet if given the
opportunity with enough time, feedbacks
are given immediately.
We are allowed to explore our classroom to
find what wakes our interest.
Classroom set-up allows students to talk
with others and collaborate with others.
Which make the communication inside the
classroom easier.
Teacher’s gives feedback for students to
learn and grow.
Teacher’s challenges students to find out
what mistakes did they made during the
assessment.
Allowing us to commit mistake and
correcting it afterwards.
Making us redo the problems we had
during our discussion, just with different
given numbers.
The relationship between teachers and
students is healthy. Which allowed to
communicate with one another easily.
Teachers allow us to talk and share our
ideas or insights in our class.
While allowing us to talk, teachers’ also
listens carefully and acknowledge student’s
ideas.
 1. What kind of classroom management does the teacher practice? Why?
Authoritative Classroom Management Style, because lessons are planned out well, though
teachers here are still in charge, they still allow students involvement and are ready for changes
when students raise their concerns.

2. Do you think that the management style that the teacher is using in class contributes to the students’
learning? Why? Why not?
Yes, management style tells how the way teachers handle the classroom. This could define how things
happen inside the classroom, is it more on the teacher who does every work or is it collaborative in
terms of allowing students to also share their insights and ideas.

3. Why should a teacher use a variety of skills and strategies in managing learner behavior?
Because, every learner is unique, with this, they also differ from on how they perceive lessons or ideas.

Read and Ponder

Teachers findmanaging the student’s behaviour properlya huge challenge. Unless, assessed with
exceptionalities or with special education needs, the student’s behaviour is basically influenced by the reaction
to external stimuli, such as environment, classroom activities, teacher’s behaviour, and even other students’
behaviour. Sometimes, the students’ behaviour may be unpredictable which makes a situation difficult for
teachers to manage. Thus, teachers use different pedagogical techniques to manage student behaviour.
To encourage students become interested and engaged in the learning process, teachers use a variety of
skills and strategies. Teachers fulfill one’s role better by managing the class. Lynch (2016) posited that
classroom management is essential in ensuring an effective learning environment.Therefore, teachers should
provide a venue where students’ potentials will be fully maximized. Provide a learning environment that would
satisfy and meet the students’ needs and interest. With this, William Glasser (1999) suggested that behaviour is
propelled by an inherent need that satisfy the five basic needs – the need to love and belong, the need to survive,
the need to feel empowered, the need to be free, and the need to be happy. Glasser’s Choice Theory proposes
that students behave according to how their needs will be fulfilled and satisfied. So, it is very vital for teachers
to establish a relationship with the students in order to address their individual needs. Students are motivated to
stay focused and engaged only when teachers establish an optimistic relationship with them. Those teachers
who believe in this theory provide students activities that enable them to take charge of their own learning and
apply what they have learned until mastery is achieved.
According to B.F. Skinner (1982), students’ behaviour can be managed through rewards and
punishment. He also added that teachers reinforce good behaviour by giving external rewards such as praises,
prizes, or good grades. But, if students are deprived of rewards that they find appealing, their behaviour is
likewise regulated. Thus, teachers who believe in this theory always make sure that good behaviour is
acknowledged in order for that behaviour be repeated.
On the contrary, Alfie Kohn (2006) believes that if students are given the opportunity to satisfy their
curiosity, their behaviour can be well-managed. He argued that instead of imposing predetermined lessons on
students, they must be given the freedom to pursue concepts that interest them. Students become more involved
in their own learning when engaged in learning the concepts of their choice. Thus, Kohn strongly claimed that
teachers should not use grades or external rewards to motivate students because they learn when they see the
relevance of what they are learning in their own lives.
 See if you can do this!

BEHAVE LIKE A TEACHER:As a would-be teacher in the field, what management style should you
use to best maximize students’ learning? Suggest the best thing that you can do (try to be more specific as
possible) by filling-out the table below.

As a would-be teacher, for I will… Like… So that…

me to… (How is this done?) (Cite an example.) (How will this help?)
 Provide the students  Giving them  We can work well
…best maximize students’ the different ways on different set of on the activities
learning how they best learn activities to test in they find a hard
the lesson. which they are time doing.
good at and not.