Unit 2: Classroom Management Strategies:
Strategies for Teaching Large Class sizes in P. E. Portfolio: Jamie Boldish
Introduction
Unit two discusses the following:
1. Why classroom management is important when it comes to Maximum Participation.
2. Classroom Management Strategies to incorporate into your own teaching.
Performance Objectives
• Identify strategies that can be incorporated into their daily lessons to provide for success.
Directions
1. Read through the information provided on classroom management.
2. Watch all videos from start to finish.
3. Complete the assignment at the end of the Unit and submit via email to professor: Jamie.boldish@gmail.com
- Please be prepared teach your classroom management styles to your small group next class.
-Groups will then work together to create an "ideal classroom management system" and present it to myself and the other small groups. The groups and I will provide feedback to each group.
4. Prepare to participate in our class discussion during our next meeting time.
Discussion Topic: How to assess if our classroom management strategies are successful in our classes? Are we reaching maximum participation? How do we know?
Why is Classroom Management Important?
To optimize student learning and achievement.
In physical education this mean to reach maximum participation in your physical education classes.
Research tells us, “The amount of time students are actively engaged in learning contributes strongly to their achievement. The amount of time available for learning is determined by instructional and management skills of the teacher…” This implies that teachers must plan and prepare well, be organized, maximize student time on task, keep students actively engaged, efficiently utilize time, and the list goes on. When students know the rules for your class, what is expected of them in your class, as well as the consequences if they do not follow rules or meet expectations, they are more likely to follow these expectations and remain on task. Effective classroom management provides structure for students. Impact of Teacher Effectiveness on Student Achievement:
Creating a Positive Climate for Learning: 4 Simple Steps
Watch The Following Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dhYJiJfr6C8
Classroom Management – Are you laid back and do you just let things flow, or do you demand perfection and jump on every little thing the students do wrong? Knowing how you handle discipline will help create a safe and orderly environment in which students want to be a part of. This includes establishing rules and procedures from day one and being consistent with them. Also, it requires creating a safe and warm environment where students can try different things and not feel judged, especially in Middle School when peer pressure can drive students to do the wrong thing. If you can create a safe, warm, and orderly environment where the students will feel like they are a part of something, you will most likely see an increase in participation. Children will not want to be a part of chaos, and that is what you get without a well‐run classroom. Moreover, this can involve setting up incentives, rewards, and other management strategies for the young scholars to work with and strive toward. For example, some other management strategies to consider include goal setting and teaching students’ self‐responsibility and how to monitor their own motivation.
Creating an atmosphere to foster learning is one of the most important tasks of teaching. This requires teachers to employ many different strategies to motivate students, to increase students opportunities to learn, to help students learn and maintain appropriate behavior, to promote student self-responsibility, and to foster accountability. http://www.pecentral.org/climate/
Step 1: Set Rules, Expectations & Consequences
The goal of this unit it to be able to set rules, expectations and consequences for your classes. Whether you are in the gym, locker room, or outside on a playing field, students need to know what rules to follow and what expectations they are expected to meet. This allows students to have a clear understanding of how to behave in your class. When students know how they are supposed to behave in your class, you eliminate a lot of time that used to be spend on disciplinary issues.
These rules and expectations also make discipline easier to handle for the teacher because they also have a clear understanding of what consequences the students will receive if they do not follow the classroom rules and expectations.
Activity:
Read the following article: http://www.pecentral.org/climate/Culp-ManagePhysEnviro-2006-17-5edited9-22-14.pdf
Read through the following information and use these websites and articles as resources to help you with your final assignment in this unit.
Example rules, expectations and consequences:
1. http://www.pecentral.org/climate/rules2009.pdf
2. http://www.pecentral.org/climate/perules.html
Step 2: Create Routines
Routines can be created for anything and everything! The following video shows a great way for students to settle disputes safely on their own! Watch the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zdTQTtugDE&feature=player_embedded
Here are some articles with ideas for different routines you can incorporate into your own classroom:
http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=11852#.VlYAF03JCM8
Step 3: CONSISTANCY!
Plan and Simple:
Classroom management strategies WILL NOT work if the teacher is not consistent.
Step 4: Putting it all Together
SUM IT UP: Classroom management strategies when implemented correctly and used consistently will reduce discipline issues, time off task and increase the amount of time student are able to be physically active in your physical education classes! You want your classes to achieve Maximum Participation? Then follow the 4 steps above to create a classroom management plan that best fits your students!
Resources
Here are additional resources you can view to get ideas for the routines/procedures you are going to include in your own classes:
Strategies for Reducing Off Task Behavior: http://www.pecentral.org/climate/off_task_behavior.html
Management Strategies in the classroom and the gym: http://www.pecentral.org/climate/Culp-ManagePhysEnviro-2006-17-5edited9-22-14.pdf
Assignment
It is important that we keep our students on a routine, even when we are not present in class. Students are aware of what is expected of them and helps to keep them on task and provide for Maximum participation during your class periods.
Assignment:
Part 1:
You are going away to a conference for a week. You are going to create a lesson plan that explains your classroom procedures, routines, rules and expectations etc... to a substitute teacher who is not familiar with your classes. The same substitute teacher is going to be covering your classes all week.
-This does not need to be a full week of lesson plans (games, activities etc... do not need to be included). Simply create sub plans that explain your classroom management so that your students will not have to miss a beat with you not being present for class.
-Use the format of your choosing.
Email to professor: Jamie.boldish@gmail.com when completed.
Part 2:
The classroom management plan you created for "the substitute teacher" will then be taught by you to your mini group the next time we meet for class. This will allow your peers and I to give you feedback on your chosen classroom management strategies.
Please be sure to create and bring with you any and all rules, expectations and consequences posters/guidelines you plan to incorporate into your classes.
Also if your will need any equipment please email me (Jamie.boldish@gmail.com) 24 hours in advance and I will provide the equipment.
Portfolio: Jamie Boldish
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