EDUC267 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Occupational Stress

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Teacher Education
• Course: EDUC267
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Classroom discipline/teacher student relations is one of the main causes of occupational stress and happiness for teachers, regardless of their career stage. Classroom management: de ned: the actions of teachers to create a planned and organised classroom environment that supports student learning and socio-emotional needs. The management of relationships, instruction, learning and resources in order to develop a positive learning environment through: Preventative strategies (to minimise inappropriate behaviour), intervention strategies (to deal with challenging behaviour) Using a philosophy of teaching and set of skills that: have a sound base in theory, take account of your knowledge of the students. So that student learning and wellbeing are promoted and students can achieve the best they possibly can. The student is preventing other students from the ability to learn, eating into the lesson time that has been planned (time wasted), students not respecting the teacher.