Unit 3: Management and Motivation

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Introduction

How a classroom is run is one of the most important factors in student success. It is important to evaluate how you will manage a classroom and what type of classroom management style you will use. With management, there is a strong correlation to student motivation which is addressed through engagement.

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Learning Targets

By the end of this unit, you will be able to...

🎯 Understand the correlation between management and environment in a classroom.

🎯 Describe and apply strategies to increase engagement within the classroom.

Lesson 1: Managing a Classroom

Classroom management is defined as "Classroom management refers to the wide variety of skills and techniques that teachers use to keep students organized, orderly, focused, attentive, on task, and academically productive during a class. When classroom-management strategies are executed effectively, teachers minimize the behaviors that impede learning for both individual students and groups of students, while maximizing the behaviors that facilitate or enhance learning." (Ed Glossary) To learn more about how to implement effective classroom management click this lesson.

Lesson 2: Engagement

Engagement is the puzzle piece to motivation and management in the classroom. Click this lesson title to learn more.

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24783

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