Classroom Management

Classroom management is a challangeing task to accomplish. Teachers are expected to create an environment that enhances learning and creates and maintains a positive, productive classroom atmosphere conducive to learning. In order to achieve this task, teachers must take into consideration class size, amount of students, and family life in order to produce effective classroom management techniques.

Some ways that teachers can have effective classroom management techniques is to incorporate the following: to develop a better strategy to manage misbehaviors (such as time outs), make classroom rules, and to have a successful plan of action during transition time throughout the course of the days activities.

There are two reasons that help to explain why children misbehave: to gain something such as a toy or the teachers' attention and to avoid something such as discipline and/or homework. When a manage approach is not working we need to regain control with the use of verbal redirecting, positive words of encouragement, and reevaluate academic lesson to make learning more age appropriate so children are not easily distracted or bored. In addition, include students in their own behavior change programs through the use of self monitoring which will allow students to record their behaviors.

Time Out is one strategy that is misused often and can be an effective tool that will most often redirect misbehaviors. Time out areas should not be considered a place but a process where the opportunity to get reinforced are withdrawn. For the most part, time outs should be done in the classroom where a child is removed and placed in a quiet, non-intimidating area.

Classroom rules are effective when teachers use guidelines