Investigating the Emotional and Physical Aspects of the Language Classroom
By Adam Simpson
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What exactly do we mean by classroom management? The way I see it, we have to split this particular subject right down the middle: we have the emotional side (the people) and we have the physical side (arranging furniture, placement of the whiteboard, seating plans, etc.).
The various theories I’ll be introducing and discussing over the course of several chapters in the first half of this book focus on the former, encompassing the methods of organization, administration, teaching and enforcing discipline in our classroom. These ‘emotional’ chapters shall consider how particular theories provide models for explaining how students learn, thus suggesting techniques for enhancing learning and decreasing distraction in our learning environments.
I’ll be following these with four chapters focusing on the physical nature of classroom management, looking at rooms I like, rooms I don’t, and discussing the nature of the perfect classroom. I hope these chapters will collectively help show you how knowledge of classroom management can help you investigate how you function in a classroom, and how you might reflect on changes you’d like to make to how you manage things.
Adam Simpson
Adam has been fortunate enough to spend the last fifteen years of his journey as a lifelong learner working with others in what some call the ‘language classroom’. He is currently privileged to have the opportunity to help young adults meet their educational goals at Sabanci University in Istanbul. His professional interests include flexibility within the curriculum and the considered use of technology in the classroom. He occasionally finds time to blog about his life.
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Chapter 1: Investigating the emotional side of the classroom: introducing classroom management
Chapter 2: Four major classroom management theories
Chapter 3: What can we learn from Skinner's Behaviorism theory?
Chapter 4: What can we learn from the Jones model of positive discipline?
Chapter 5: What can we learn from Glasser’s Choice Theory of classroom management?
Chapter 6: What can we learn from Canter’s Assertive Classroom Management model?
Chapter 7: What is your personal classroom management profile?
Chapter 8: Dealing with the physical aspects of the classroom
Chapter 9: The curious case of G062
Chapter 10: Is G045 a teaching paradise?
Chapter 11: Epilogue – The perfect classroom
Introduction
What exactly do we mean by classroom management?
The way I see it, we have to split this particular subject right down the middle: we have the emotional side (the people) and we have the physical side (arranging furniture, placement of the whiteboard, seating plans, etc.).
The various theories I’ll be introducing and discussing over the course of several chapters in the first half of this book focus on the former, encompassing the methods of organization, administration, teaching and enforcing discipline in our classroom.
These ‘emotional’ chapters shall consider how particular theories provide models for explaining how students learn, thus suggesting techniques for enhancing learning and decreasing distraction in our learning environments.
I follow these with four chapters focusing on the physical nature of classroom management, looking at rooms I like, rooms I don’t, and discussing the nature of the perfect classroom.
I hope these chapters will collectively help show you how knowledge of classroom management can help you investigate how you function in a classroom, and how you might reflect on changes you’d like to make to how you manage things.
Chapter 1: Investigating the emotional side of the classroom: introducing classroom management
In this chapter I’ll briefly introduce and summarize some of the things I’ll be discussing throughout the first half of the book. We’ll start off with some of the key issues pertaining to the emotional management of your classes.
1. The notion of teacher presence
When we are managing our classrooms, the kind and amount of presence we as teachers uphold are important in establishing - and understanding - the dynamics of the learning environment. So, what’s best?
- Domineering teachers can ruin a learner’s sense of autonomy, reinforcing the notion that they are not as important a part of the class as the teacher.
- On the other hand, being too free with students can result