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Think of the best teachers you’ve had in your
life… What were they like?
Specific Didactics & Practicum
UNT
What do you consider to be a teacher’s major
challenges to effective group management?
Am I
made
for
this?
Let’s find a solution… How about this one?
• 34% of teachers agreed or strongly agreed that student
behavior problems interferred with their teaching.
• Dissatisfaction with student behavior is the 4th reason for
transferring schools and 5th for leaving the profession.
• CM is a major factor in teacher burnout (Durr, 2008).
• Teachers spend 50% of their time managing students
instead of teaching
• 70% of teachers report needing to improve their CM
1. Teacher expectations of students do not influence how much students achieve
in class (and in their lives).
2. Student behavior will always be a problem in every classroom.
3. “Grumpy” teachers always seem to have more classroom management issues
than positive, happy teachers.
4. Teachers who collaborate with other teachers have fewer classroom
management issues than teachers who “work on their own”.
5. Focusing on your “subject” is the best way to prevent discipline problems in the
classroom.
6. Classroom management has nothing to do with discipline.
7. There are fewer classroom management problems in smaller classrooms.
8. Teachers either “win” or “lose” their classes on the first few days of the school
year.
9. A teacher should spend more time covering material than managing their
classrooms in the first 3 days of school.
10. Most classroom management problems have nothing to do with students –
they are the teacher’s fault.
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How many artists are there in the room?
•Creativity
•Curiosity
•Enthusiasm
•Report the qualities of the best
teachers you’ve had…
What do we remember about a teacher?
• Mostly, how good they made us feel…
How close is too close between a teacher and
a student?
Distant enough to be professional…
Close enough to be warm…
“I was always at peace because of the
way my mom treated me.”
Martina Hingis
Being warm emotionally
vs.
Anger management
Emotional intelligence
• the ability to monitor one's own and other people's emotions, to
discriminate between different emotions and label them
appropriately, and to use emotional information to guide thinking and
behavior
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive
element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the
climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I
possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate
or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides
whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child
humanized or dehumanized.”
Haim Ginott
How would one want to be remembered?
Good teachers…
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…don’t work on CM
…are calm – focused
…are warm emotionally
…have a natural aura of positive authority
…are knowledgeable
…are passionate
“Nothing great was ever achieved without
enthusiasm.”
Emerson
mirror neurons
• Watch the following video about
and discuss its implications for the classroom.
• Now in what way can we relate mirror neurons with classroom
management?
Setting the tone
• Game
• Competition
• Music
• Quotation
• Anecdote
• News
What kind of
behavior would you
like your Ss to have?
•Agree – make Ss understand the reason for any given rule
•Rehearse – until it becomes a routine
Positive Discipline
expectations
•RESPECT should be the cornerstone value
• Therefore, respect Ss’ dignity
• Refer to rules as
Getting Ss at the door or before class actually
begins
• Positive, non-confrontational
• Informal chit-chat
• Reinforce good behavior
Dealing with problem kids
• Separating kids: group/pair
work! (Careful: humiliation
breeds revenge)
Focusing
• Talk to whole class with EVERYONE paying attention to you.
• Give clear instructions
Monitoring
Low profile intervention
• Proximity
• Proximity + look
• Proximity + touch
• The “are-you-ok”
technique
• The 2-min technique
• Invest in the relationship with students
• Emotional connection
• Get the best of each S – you never know how much
good will and talent they may have
• Assertive I-messages
•Amnesty and amnesia
•Act is wrong – not student
•Move your eyes
Labelling students
• They act as labelled
• When reading faces, ask yourself why
Learn to listen
Being in control
• Ss need to feel they’re in good hands
• Sending S to the Principal’s office
• “Withitness”
Attention span
• K: 5-8’
• 1-6: 8-12’
• 7-12: 12-15’
• College: 15-18’
• Or 10’ for all Ss?
Sequencing vs. pacing
• Think & jot down own ideas
• Pair work: quiet talk to share ideas
• Talk in small group
• Whole class
Correcting
• Positive
• Correction
• Positive
Early finishers
• Help a friend
• Do homework
• Journal writing
• Silent reading time
Boredom: best invitation to misbehave
Closure activities
• The rating quiz
• Question
• Answer
• Critique
• Give me 5
• Paper airplanes
• Cartoon bubbles
Avoiding burnout
STRESS
BURNOUT
Over-engagement
Disengagement
Over-reactive
Emotions are blunted
Urgency and hyperactivity
Helplessness & hopelessness
Loss of energy
Loss of motivation, ideas, hope
Anxiety disorders
Detachment and depression
Primary damage is physical
Primary damage is emotional
Handling stress
• Find a mentor / shrink
• Learn to say no
• Get plenty of sleep
• Try something new
• Nourish your creative side
• Create realistic to-do lists
• Talk to somebody positive
• Learn
• Leave teaching at school or set a limit
Celebrate what it means to be a teacher
Teaching &
Learning
How-to
Emotional
Intelligence
Subject
Expertise