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Purpose of Project
Creating and Maintaining Classroom Management
The purpose of this course is to help educators learn the importance of classroom management and to provide teachers with strategies to effectively create and maintain classroom management.
Topics of the course:
- What is Classroom Management?
- Why is Classroom Management important?
- What strategies and methods can be used to effectively create and maintain Classroom Management?
- When and How to re-establish Classroom Management after specific methods failed?
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1. Problem: Structure, organization and maintaining control in a classroom are essential in creating the most effective learning environment for students. Research shows that "effective teachers have a classroom that is organized, structured, and consistent with procedures—steps that guide students in how to get things done in a classroom" (Wong et al., 2012, p. 60). However, often times, teachers lose control, organization or student attention within their class. Whether it be mishandling distractions, not going over procedures for routines and schedules, not being stern enough, or allowing students to have too much free range, such occurrences have the power to negatively impact student learning, as well as diminish the respect held for teachers and order in their classroom. Before teaching in a classroom, it is essential to have a classroom management plan in place to avoid such circumstances. Many new teachers step into the classroom unaware of the challenges they will face if classroom management is not established and maintained. Even experienced teachers encounter situations where they lose control in the classroom. Thus, negatively impacting student learning.
2. What is to be learned: Learners will become aware of the importance of classroom management. They will learn strategies to help them create and maintain such classroom management, while also learning how to re-establish it, if ever lost.
3. The Learners: The learners will be all types of teachers, regardless of level, age or experience. Classroom management is something that is needed from pre-school through college and can be a struggle for teachers with years of experience or none.
4. Instructional Context: Most activities in this course will be performed online and by the individual. Though there will be opportunities where teachers will be asked to experiment beyond the computer.
5. Exploring the problem and solution: Learners will be given the opportunity to learn, experiment, and reflect on course activities. Learners will explore the different aspects of classroom management and how they can establish/re-establish it within their own classrooms.
6. Goals: To bring awareness of the value of effective classroom management, while providing various strategies and methods to employ in their own classrooms
Performance Objectives
- Learners will be able to articulate the importance of developing a classroom management plan.
- Learners will be able to describe the function of creating and maintaining classroom management.
- Learners will be able to identify the signs of poor classroom management and ways to change it.
Task Analysis
Course Purpose
The purpose of this course is to help teachers realize the importance of classroom management and learn different techniques and methods that would help them develop their own classroom management plan.
Learning Outcomes
At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:
- State the meaning of classroom management
- Identify effective verse ineffective methods of creating and maintaining classroom management
- Identify the moments where teachers have lost classroom management in their classrooms
- Create a unique classroom management plan
Prerequisite Skills
Essential Prerequisites
In order to reach outcomes, students must know/learn to:
- Understand what classroom management is
- Determine the signs of poor classroom management
- Understand how to use different methods of classroom management
- Apply knowledge of classroom management in creating a plan
Supportive Prerequisites
For easier access to reaching outcomes, students should:
- Be open to learning about and using classroom management plans in the classroom
- Understand the purposes of classroom management
- Be open to discussing ideas with others
- Be open to reflecting and re-evaluating own classroom management methods
Curriculum Map
Take a sneak peek at what this course will be like!
Course Outline
Unit One: Classroom Management and Its Importance
→ Objective: Learners will be able to define, in text, the meaning of classroom management.
→ Pictures used throughout (humor, engage)
→ Myth v. Truth (engage/relate)
→ Definitions (visual and audio)
→ Task: Definition of classroom management (critical thinking/apply)
→ Reflect: Importance of classroom management
Unit Two: Strategies and Methods
→ Objective: Learners will be able to compile a list of effective classroom management strategies verse ineffective classroom management strategies.
→ Pictures used throughout (humor, engage)
→ Dos & Don'ts (engage/relate)
→ Charts, videos, article (visual, audio)
→ Task: Create list of Dos & Don'ts (critical thinking/apply)
→ Reflect: Evaluate own classroom management strategies
Unit Three: Re-establishing Classroom Management
→ Objective: Learners will be able to choose the moment a teacher has lost classroom management after listening to different scenarios. Learners will be able to design their own classroom management plan to address a variety of situations.
→ Pictures used throughout (humor, engage)
→ Steps to re-establish classroom management
→ Video of personal experience (engage/relate)
→ Analyze different teaching scenarios
→ Task: Create classroom management plan (critical thinking/apply)
→ Reflect: Evaluate own classroom management plan
References and Resources
Erdogan, M., Kursun, E., Tan Sisman, G., Saltan, F., Gok, A. & Yildiz, I. 2010. "A Qualitative Study on Classroom Management and Classrooin Discipline Problems, Reasons, and Solutions: A Case of Information Technologies Class," Educational Sciences:Theory & Practice, 10, (2): 881-891.
MacSuga, A. & Simonsen, B. 2011. "Increasing Teachers' Use of Evidence-based Classroom Management Strategies Through Consultation: Overview and Case Studies," Beyond Behavior, 4-12.
Reglin, G., Akpo-Sanni, J. & Losike-Sedimo, N. 2012. "THE EFFECT OF A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT MODEL ON AT-RISK ELEMENTARY STUDENTS' MISBEHAVIORS," Education, 133, (1): 3-18.
Sayeski, K. & Brown, M. 2011. "Developing a Classroom Management Plan Using a Tiered Approach," Teaching Exceptional Children, 44, (1): 8-17.
Unal, Z. & Unal A. 2012. "THE IMPACT OF YEARS OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE ON THE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT APPROACHES OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS," International Journal of Instruction, 5, (2): 41-60.
Wong, H., Wong,R., Rogers, K. & Brooks, A. 2012. "Managing Your Classroom for Success," Science and Children, 60-64.
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