Classroom Management:

Creating Productive
Learning Environments
What is classroom management?

Productive

Learning Environment a
classroom that is safe and orderly and
focused on learning
Central to effective classroom management
Students are well behaved, emotional climate
relaxed & inviting
Learning Highest priority

What is a Productive Learning

Environment?

Classroom

management all the

actions teachers take to create an
environment that supports academic &
social-emotional learning
Important suggest that schools & teachers are
in charge & know what theyre doing!
Contributes to learning and development
Students more motivated to learn

Learn more well managed

Emphasize respect & responsibility
Avoid criticizing

What is a Productive Learning

Environment?

Successful

classroom management
begins with goals
Guide out actions

Classroom

management vs. discipline

Management prevents problems from occurring

Effective

Classroom Management:

Creating a positive classroom climate

Creating a community of learners
Developing learner responsibility
Maximizing time and opportunity for learning

Goals of Classroom Management

Creating

a Positive
Classroom Climate
Learners feel physically
& emotionally safe,
personally connected
to both their teacher &
their peers, & worthy
of love & respect
Bullying/other harmful
acts not tolerated
Positive classroom
climate essential

Creating

a
Community of
Learners
Positive emotional climate
= learning community
a place where you &
your students all work
together to help everyone
learn
Involved all students
Student help in
developing procedures
Respect for all

Classroom Management

Developing

Learner
Responsibility
Helping students learn
to be responsible one
of the biggest
challenges
Talk about it, teach it,
help students
understand the
consequences for
behaving irresponsibly
Ongoing effort

Maximizing

Time &
Opportunities for
Learning
Allocated time
Amount of time a

teacher/school designates for

a content area

Instructional time
Time left for teaching after
routine management &
administrative tasks

Engaged time
Time students are paying
attention & involved in
learning activities

Academic learning time

Student are successful while

engaged in learning activities

Classroom Management

Communicating

Caring
Teaching Effectively
Organizing Your Classroom
Preventing Problems through Planning

Creating Productive Learning

Environments

Caring

refers to a teachers investment in the

protection and development of young people
Caring teacher heart of productive learning
environment

Research

students are more motivated & learn

more in classrooms where they believe teacher
like, understand & empathize with them

Call student by first name learn names

Greet students every day
Use we & our
Nonverbal communications (eye contact, smiling)
Spend time with students
Hold students to high standards

Communicating Caring

Its

impossible to create a productive

learning environment without effective
teaching
Close link between management &
instruction
Plan for classroom management & effective
instruction

Teaching Effectively

Classroom

organization a professional
skill that includes:
Preparing materials in advance
Starting classes and activities on time
Making transitions quickly & smoothly
directions

Creating well-established routines

Turning in papers, going to the restroom, lining up
for lunch

Essential for effective classroom management

Organizing Your Classroom

Developmental

Differences in Students

Different grade levels

All students need caring teachers who have positive
expectations for them & hold them to high standards
Creating

Procedures & Rules

Procedures routines students following in their daily

learning activities (how papers are turned in, when to
sharpen pencils)
Rules guidelines that provide standards for acceptable
classroom behavior.
When consistently enforced reduce behavior problems &
promote a feeling of pride & responsibility in the classroom
community

Preventing Problems through

Planning

Parent

support essential for students

cooperation & motivation
Benefits:

More positive attitudes & behaviors

Higher long-term achievements
Greater willingness to do homework
Better attendance & graduation rates
Greater enrollment in postsecondary education

Strategies:

Send letters home

Maintain communication frequently
Emphasize students accomplishments (newsletters, emails, notes)

Involving Parents

Intervention

teacher action designed to

increase desired behaviors or to eliminate
student misbehavior and inattention.
Moving near student, calling on
inattentive students to bring them back to
the lesson, removing student

Intervening When Misbehavior

Occurs

1.
2.
3.

Stop the misbehavior quickly & simply

Maintain the flow of your lesson
Help students learn from the experience

Three Goals of Intervening

Demonstrate

withitness & overlapping

As a teacher you know what is going on in your

classroom & main the flow of the lesson
Overlapping multitasking
Be

consistent & follow through

Enforce rules
Keep

verbal and nonverbal behaviors

congruent
Keep words, tone and body language consistent NO
mixed messages

Apply

logical Consequences

Use consequences that are related to the misbehavior

Helping Students Understand

Interventions

Responding

to Defiant Students

Experts offer two suggestions:

Remain calm & avoid power struggle
Give the rest of the class an assignment

Defiance often the result of negative studentteacher relationships

Students aggressive or impulsive and display
temper tantrums
Student refuses to leave classroom or physically
violent send a student to the front office

Serious Management Problems

Responding

to Fighting

Incidents of student aggression toward each

other more common than threats to teachers
You must intervene not physically- report it
Goal protect victim & other students
Effective response
1. Stop the incident 2. protect the victim 3. get
help

Experts recommend involving parents & other

school personnel

Serious Management Problems

Responding

to Bullying

Bullying a form of peer aggression that

involves a systematic or repetitious abuse of
power between students
44 states passed antibullying laws
Districts zero tolerance policies
Largely ineffective
Threatens students feelings of safety &
security in schools
Teachers central to help eliminate bullying

Serious Management Problems