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| what is classroom management? |
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| Actions teachers take to create an environment that supports and vacilitates both academic and social-emotional learning. |
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| Why is classroom management important? |
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| To achieve the highest student academic achievement. |
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| What does effective classroom management "look like" in a classroom? |
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5:
Withitness
Overlapping
Signal continuity and momentum during lessons
Group alerting and accountability during lessons
Challenge and variety of assignments |
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| What do we know from research about room arrangement? |
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begin with a more traditional order and changes through the year best support the type of learning activities in progress
how a child learsn and behaves is influences by his or her situation in the classroom environment
teacher proximity increase student engagement
facitlity arrangement positively affects cognitive and social development |
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| What is important in classroom management? |
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Visibility: see all students at all times
Accessibility: ability to access needed materials easily
Distractibility: seat students away from obvious distractors |
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| What other special issues to consider with classroom arrangement? |
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Tote and/or negotiate
use an overhead
extend professional courtesy
rearrange desks and put it back |
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| What do we know from research about rules and procedures? |
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involve students in writing rules since it has many benefits
actively teaching rules and procedures at the beginning of the year - pays off
consistent enforcement relates to higher achievement
teachers who are warm demanders elicit better student cooperation
help reclaim instructional time |
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| Expected norms of behavior - function to prevent or encourage certain behaviors |
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| ways of getting classroom activities done. Achieve continuity predictability and time saving: CPT. |
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| Goals are target aspirations not necessarily attained every day. |
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| How are rules and procedures related? |
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| If rules lay out basic behavioral expectations, procedures are the "how to's" that show students step by step how to follow the rules successfully. |
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| What are the guidelines for writing rules? |
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- Consistent with School Rules
- Understandable
- Doable
- Manageable
- Always Applicable
- Stated Postively
- Stated Behaviorally
- Consistent with your own philosophy
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