Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Teaching
Session 4
Effective Teachers:
The Naturals
BOARDWORK – Think-Pair-Square
– Passing notes
– Whispering
– Sharpening pencils
– Doodling
– Gazing out the window
Pair Partner Discussion
Describe to your partner a memorable
time in which you and/or others in your
class were “goofing off.”
Switch.
One minute.
Beyond the Naturals
Accumulation of many “natural”
teachers, not just one
Positive Classroom
Management
Classroom Structure
Limit-Setting
Responsibility Training
– Omission Training
Back-up System
Management Is
Leadership
Management means getting things
done through people.
Fundamentals are the same in
parenting, teaching, business, industry
How to get people to do what you want
them to do:
– Correctly,
– On time,
– With a good attitude.
The Three Areas of
Classroom Management
Discipline
Instruction
Motivation
5 Elements to Discipline
Get students on task
Keep students on task
Suppression of disruption
– Brief
– Stated in the positive
– Something you are willing to enforce
consistently.
Due: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Instruction
How do you produce mastery and
independent learning in all students
without working yourself to death?
Effective instruction requires the
integration of all modalities of learning
at every step of performance:
– The Verbal (Say)
– The Visual (See)
– The Physical (Do)
Partner Teach
Turn to your partner and teach your
partner how to produce mastery and
independent learning in all students.
Switch.
Motivation
How do you get conscientiousness
and hard work from all of your
students?
Quality control to classroom work
Introduction to
Positive Classroom
Management
Dilemma
How do you get people to do what you
want them to do:
– Correctly?
– On time?
– With a good attitude?
Students Manage
Teachers Too
Students have a head start
Switching the Agenda
– Instruction
– Motivation
Positive Classroom
Management
Classroom Structure
Limit-Setting
Responsibility Training
– Omission Training
Back-up System
Classroom Structure
Focuses upon arranging every aspect
of the classroom environment so that
learning becomes more likely and
“goofing off” becomes less likely.
The cheapest way to manage any
problem is to prevent its occurrence.
Classroom structure aims to do just
that.
Limit-Setting
Typically referred to as “meaning
business.”
Limit setting is the body language by
Setting limits;