ED1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Automaticity
Classroom Management
- Control and discipline
2 main occasions when manhandling is acceptable
1. Causing harm to another student
2. Causing harm to themselves
How do you handle those students?
1. Generally grab them by the wrists and drag them away
2. If you don’t need to handle a student, you done
3. Loose the battle but win the war
Jao Kounin’s Priniples - Effective Classroom Management
- Focuses on preventative discipline techniques and strategies designed to prevent the occurrence of
discipline problems in the first place
- Good classroom management depends on effective lesson management
- The ways teachers handle misbehaviour once it occurs are not the keys to successful classroom
management (corrective)
- Teachers need to be attentive to all aspects of the classroom (withitness)
- Effective teachers keep students attentive and actively involved
- Teachers should be able to attend to two activities at the same time
- Activities should be enjoyable and challenging
The Ripple Effect
- The ‘ripple effect’ occurs when the teacher corrects a misbehaviour in one student, this can positively
influence the behaviour of other nearby students
- Choose the child that is really well behaved and reward, then students follow because they want a
reward - correct misbehaviour and manage negative behaviour
Withitness
- Awareness of whats going on in all parts of the classroom at all times
- Examples of withitness
A teacher who knows thats going on
Overlapping
- Being able to attend to two or more issues at the same time
Smoothness
- Keep lessons moving slowly without inducing lesson ‘jerkiness’
- Smooth transitions
- Maintaining lesson momentum
Slowdowns
- As the term suggests, ‘slowdowns’ refers to situations that slow a lesson down
- There are two types:
- Over dwelling - where teachers waste too much time talking
- Fragmentations - where teachers break tasks into ‘bits’ or ‘fragments’ rather than being done in
one step, e.g., packing books, away, getting new books out, ruling up a new page, collecting
recourses
- These could all be done in one step rather than in separate steps
Student Accountability
- The idea that students are responsible for their own learning
- This involves the teacher giving clear and specific instructions for students to undertake a certain task
Also includes the notion of keeping students ‘on their toes’ by asking students randomly to ask questions
Qualities of an effective teacher:
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Document Summary
2 main occasions when manhandling is acceptable: causing harm to another student, causing harm to themselves. How do you handle those students: generally grab them by the wrists and drag them away, if you don"t need to handle a student, you done, loose the battle but win the war. Focuses on preventative discipline techniques and strategies designed to prevent the occurrence of discipline problems in the first place. Good classroom management depends on effective lesson management. The ways teachers handle misbehaviour once it occurs are not the keys to successful classroom management (corrective) Teachers need to be attentive to all aspects of the classroom (withitness) Effective teachers keep students attentive and actively involved. Teachers should be able to attend to two activities at the same time. The ripple effect" occurs when the teacher corrects a misbehaviour in one student, this can positively influence the behaviour of other nearby students.
