Classroom Management

Classroom
management
Outline
• Definition of classroom management
• Importance of classroom management
• Aspects of classroom management.
• Techniques of classroom management.
• Promoting self-regulated learning
• Seating arrangement
• Dealing with disruptive behaviors
• Classroom management issues
What is classroom
management
• It refers to a variety oftechniques, strategies, and procedures
that teachers use to manage students’ behaviors, movements,
and interactions during the session.
Why is CM
important?
Classroom management is important because:
It helps to maintain the smoothness of the
session.
It contributes to effective teaching and learning.
It provides a sense of satisfaction and
enjoyment.
It helps to build an anxiety-free environment.
Aspects of classroom
management
• Not only does classroom management involve ways to deal with
disruptive behaviors, but it also involves ways of motivating
students, assessing students’ performance, structuring the lesson,
and building stressless climate for effective learning.
• CM thus includes the following aspects:
Motivation
Teacher and student relationship/interaction
Assessment
Planning
Teacher’s roles
Aspects of classroom
management
 Motivation: teachers should increase students’ motivation.
Assessment: teachers should frequently assess students’
performance.
Planning: teachers should plan their lessons beforehand. The lesson plan
should include students’ expected behaviors.
Teacher and student relationship: teachers should set the code of
conduct with students on the first days of school.
Teacher’s roles
Instructor: teachers transmit knowledge to students.
Motivator: they motivate students to learn.
Assessor: they assess students’ learning.
Monitor: they check students’ outcome.
Participant: they participate in classroom activities.
Counsellor/Advisor: they listen and give advice to students.
Manager: they manage the classroom Planner: they plan
the lesson Facilitator: they facilitate the lesson
Guide: they guide students to discover knowledge.
Promoting self-regulated
learning
• Self-regulated learning is a type of learning which explains how students
take control of their learning process by using cognitive, metacognitive,
behavioral, motivational, and emotional strategies. According to this
learning type, students can improve their academic performance and
outcomes by planning, monitoring, and reflecting on their learning
goals, actions, and results.
• Students with self-regulated learning tend to be more committed
and disciplined.
Self-regulated learning
stages
1.Planning: students set goals and devise plans to achieve them.
Question: What do I want to learn? How will I learn it?
2. Monitoring: students keep track of their progress.
Questions: Am I on the right path? How far am I from the final
outcome?
3. Reflecting: students reflect on the learning journey .
Questions: What did I do well? what could I have done better? What did
I learn from the experience?
Seating
arrangements
Disciplinary
problems
• What causes disciplinary problems?
 Class size and over-crowdedness.
 Teacher’s poor management skills.
 Teacher’s poor mastery of the subject.
 Students’ varied background
 Students’ lack of interest.
 Boredom and restlessness.
How to deal with disruptive behaviors?
1. Anticipate and avoid them proactively.
2. Talk to students in private.
3. Encourage positive behaviours and discourage negative
ones.
4. Find a way to use the behaviour as learning opportunity
if possible.
Techniques of classroom
management
1. Consistent proactive discipline is the crux of effective classroom management.
Prevention is better than cure: if we are proactive in our approach to discipline; we prevent
unnecessary disciplinary problems from cropping up. We do not have to wait for
disciplinary problems to erupt for us to take a move. .
3. Keep students on task.
4. Strike a balance between variety and challenge in students’ activities.
5. Resolve minor disruptions before they become major ones.
6. Reinforce positive behaviors.
7. Practice the principle of escalation.
8. Prepare beforehand and make a rational use of time in class.
9. Treat students equally.
10.Treat minor disturbance calmly.
11. Work out a physical arrangement that facilitates an interactive teaching –learning
process.
12. Establish a relaxing and comfortable environment.
Classroom management
issues
Suggest ways to deal with the following situations:
1. Two students talk to each other while you are explaining the lesson.
2. Two students fighting in the classroom.
3. You catch a student cheating in the exam.
4. Some students do not write their lessons.
5. A student usually comes late to class.
6. A student refuses to work in groups and prefers working alone.

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