50 Things You Don’t Have To Do For Effective Classroom Management by MICHAEL LINSIN on MARCH 3, 2012

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50 Things You Don’t Have To Do

1. You don’t have to lecture, yell, or scold.

2. You don’t have to micromanage.

3. You don’t have to ignore misbehavior.

4. You don’t have to be unlikable.

5. You don’t have to tolerate call-outs and interruptions.

6. You don’t have to use bribery.

7. You don’t have to walk on eggshells around difficult students.

8. You don’t have to give false praise.

9. You don’t have to send students to the office.

10. You don’t have to implore your students to pay attention.

11. You don’t have to say things you don’t truly believe.

12. You don’t have to be humorless, stern, or overly serious.

13. You don’t have to repeat yourself over and over again.

14. You don’t have to work on building community.

15. You don’t have to beg or coax or convince your students into behaving.

16. You don’t have to waste time and attention on difficult students.

17. You don’t have to do more or say more to have better control.

18. You don’t have to show anger or lose your cool.

19. You don’t have to lower your behavior standards.

20. You don’t have to talk so much, so often, or so loud.

21. You don’t have to have an antagonistic or 

demanding relationship with difficult students.

22. You don’t have to shush your students or ask repeatedly for quiet.

23. You don’t have to give frequent reminders and exhortations.

24. You don’t have to show hurt or disappointment to get your message across.

25. You don’t have to guide, direct, or handhold your students through every moment of the day.

26. You don’t have to be thought of as a “mean” teacher.

27. You don’t have to use threats or intimidation to get students to behave.

28. You don’t have to have friction or resentment between you and any of your students.

29. You don’t have to use behavior contracts to turn around difficult students.

30. You don’t have to give over-the-top or gratuitous praise.

31. You don’t have to plead with your students to follow your directions.

32. You don’t have to use different strategies for different students.

33. You don’t have to tolerate a noisy, chaotic, or unruly classroom.

34. You don’t have to talk over your students or move on until you’re ready.

35. You don’t have to accept being disrespected, cursed at, or ignored.

36. You don’t have use complicated classroom management methods.

37. You don’t have to be fearful of holding your students strictly accountable.

38. You don’t have to hold time-consuming community circles or hashing-out sessions.

39. You don’t have to be negative or critical to motivate your students.

40. You don’t have to cover up your personality or hold back from having fun.

41. You don’t have to tolerate arguing and talking back.

42. You don’t have to ask two or three times or more for your students’ attention.

43. You don’t have to offer praise for expected behavior.

44. You don’t have to rely on parents, the principal, or anyone else to turn around difficult students.

45. You don’t have to be overbearing or suffocating to have excellent control.

46. You don’t have to give incessant talking-tos to difficult and disrespectful students.

47. You don’t have to ask students why they misbehaved or force assurances from them.

48. You don’t have to have a boring, no-fun classroom to keep a lid on whole-class misbehavior.

49. You don’t have to be tense, tired, and sick of dealing with misbehavior.

50. You never, ever have to be at the mercy of your students.

12 Classroom Management Myths You Need To Know About by MICHAEL LINSIN on JUNE 19, 2010

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12 Classroom Management Myths

1. You should never smile the first two months of the school year.

Your smile should be the first thing students notice about you. It sets the tone for the new school year and gives you a jumpstart on building rapport. Being stern and severe will cause students to dislike you, which will severely limit your ability to influence behavior.

2. If you’re nice, they’ll take advantage of you.

Students will only take advantage of you if you say you’re going to hold them accountable and you don’t. Being kind and having a pleasant personality—while always holding students accountable—gives you many classroom management advantages.

3. Too much fun causes students to misbehave.

The opposite is true. If students are having fun learning in your classroom, your rules and consequences will have more power to dissuade misbehavior. If students are bored and uninterested, however, what incentive do they have to behave? A sticker at the end of the day?

4. Time-out should be less than ten minutes.

The length of time-out depends on the offending student’s level of contrition. If your students leave time-out without having learned a lesson, then what’s the point? One look into their eyes will tell you whether they’re ready to rejoin the class or not.

5. Catch students doing something good and then praise them for it is an effective strategy.

Praising students for expected behavior sends the message that doing what you’re supposed to do deserves special recognition. It also lessens the impact of praise given for behavior or performance that is truly worthy of it. If you want to acknowledge expected behavior, a thank you will do.

6. You need tougher consequences.

You don’t need tougher consequences. You just need to strengthen the ones you have. You do this by creating a classroom that students want to be a part of. This gives you powerful leverage—the kind that causes students to loath receiving even warning.

7. Spending time with students builds rapport.

Not if they don’t like you. Being likable builds rapport—whether you have time to play foursquare at recess with your students or not. Work on being yourself in the classroom. Tell stories, use humor, and don’t be afraid to show your personality. Your students will love you for it.

8. You need to reward students for good behavior.

Bribing is a short-term fix that doesn’t change behavior. Having fun together and meaningful praisefrom a teacher they admire are the greatest rewards. This gives your classroom management plan teeth and you the leverage to influence behavior.

9. You should send students to the office for misbehavior.

Sending students to the office weakens your ability to manage your classroom. It communicates to your students that the buck doesn’t stop with you, that you aren’t the ultimate authority in the classroom. And they’ll continue to test you because of it.

10. Lecturing individual students improves behavior.

You may not hear teachers actually say that lecturing students improves behavior, but nearly everyone does it. The fact is, lecturing will cause students to resent you, which will increase the frequency and severity of misbehavior. Instead of pulling students aside for a “conference,” simply follow your classroom management plan.

11. Who is on your roster determines if you have a good class or not.

You decide whether you have a good class or not, not the students. You have the power to create the class you want, regardless of who is on your roster.

12. You need to work on building community.

This is a case of the cart coming before the horse. You can’t work on building community. You must create conditions so it happens naturally. Holding students accountable (which protects each student’s right to enjoy school), pursuing challenging goals together, and making learning fun will build a community that students respect and care about.

A moment with Uncle Seuss~

Let's talk about rules~

You MAY not like this --->  RULES

"Rules, routines and procedures assist you to manage effectively and efficiently"

As kids, we were always been told that we couldn't do this, we couldn't do that. We hated the adults for doing it..and for that, we should know how the pupils feel whenever we put rules on their life.

Some rules maybe unnecessary and might just holding back the child's physiological growth. This is why the teacher or parents should know what kind of rules that they should tell the children to follow.

If you're athletic like me, you probably know that EVERY sports or games have its' rules; we could get a red card just by giving 'opinions' to the referee..but we don't really cared about it because that's just how we play it and we enjoyed doing it. Same goes with LEARNING in the classroom. If your pupils love to learn, they will definitely follow they classroom rules.

Well before we go any further on rules, lets get to know the definition of it first.

1. Authoritative statement of what to do or not to do in a specific situation, issued by an appropriate person or body. It clarifies, demarcates, or interprets a law or policy.

Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/rule.html#ixzz2N2c2OSuZ

You may look at your dictionary for simpler definition but just by this, we can just say rules are something or a list of things that you should or shouldn't do. That's about it.


Why Classroom Rules?

1. 1.    Rules are important because they are guidelines to what is acceptable and what not. There would be no civilization without rules.
   2.    Human beings are organized in societies which have rules to 
   3.    control human beings' behavior. Human beings must follow those rules in order to live in a organized society.
   4.    Rules are in place to protect the common, good--in essence, they are there to prevent people from doing harm to one another. 
   5.    To create a happy environment for children to learn in
   6.    To keep everyone relaxed and prevent stress
   7.    So a teacher can keep control of the class
   8.    To make sure everyone is safe
   9.    To make sure everyone can hear what the teacher is saying, and are learning.
   
   

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

WHAT IS CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT?

Before we start let us first introduce you to the most significant part in a classroom management; THE CLASSROOM, of course.

What exactly is a classroom? How do you define a classroom?

 Seems familiar?

Undoubtedly, it is basically or will be, for most  of the readers, including us, one of the place where you will be most involved during your professional career as a teacher. So, before knowing how to manage it, let's get some insides of knowing our classroom first.

According to A. Lourdusamy one of the authors of Classroom Management Facilitating Teaching and Learning , " The classroom activities in which the teachers are involved in are communicating goals to their students, regulating the learning activities monitoring the progress of the students, motivating their students to learn, engaging their students to think creatively and critically, and maintaining discipline. the students on their part, besides socializing with their peers, receive information and directions from their teachers, engage actively in individual and group work, take tests and quizzes, and interact with their teachers and their peers, receiving feedback in return." 

Again according to our mister A. Lourdusamy, when viewed from the above perspective it could be considered as an ecological system where all living things provide for one another, emotionally, mentally or even physically. it is define as a unit where the teacher and students interacts for the purpose of teaching and learning to take place. 

Save to say, the classroom is where all the ' histories' are made. where all the ' rock and rolls' takes place. where the stories happened, where knowledge are exchanged. So how do we make sure that all the interactions made between teachers and students are planned accordingly and effectively? 

Now here comes the main point, the reason for this blog was ever made; aside from the reason that this is part of our mundane lives as teacher trainees; CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT. How important is classroom management in effective and meaningful learning? Save the questions. We may have some answers to them.

Let us start first with;

WHAT IS CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT?

Briefly defined , Classroom management is the term educators use to describe methods of preventing misbehavior and dealing with it if it arises. In other words, it is the techniques teachers use to maintain control in the classroom (By Melissa Kelly, About.com Guide) 

OR  

Classroom management is defined as the methods and strategies an educator uses to maintain a classroom environment that is conducive to student success and learning. Although there are many pedagogical strategies involved in managing a classroom, a common denominator is making sure that students feel they are in an environment that allows them to achieve.(eHow.com http://www.ehow.com)

To summarize, its main purpose is to gain control of the classroom and to deal with students' misbehaviors. They are strategies used by teachers to ensure the physical and psychological safety of the students, to ensure a smooth and orderly teaching and learning process and it acts as a technique to enhance students' disciplines.

So why is classroom management important in a classroom?What benefits does it brings?

The importance of classroom management is it ensures the students to learn the material rather than committing it to short-term memory for regurgitation of facts and tests. By effectively being able to move around the classroom, asking questions and employing both verbal and non-verbal teaching, it ensures that the students are paying attention and taking more from the learning experience than just simple facts.

In the same time, it boosts their confidence and thus making the lesson more effective.

Brophy and Evertson (1976) says:

Classroom management skills plays an important part in the success and effectiveness of the teaching and learning process. 

Talking about skills, 

What are the skills?

Few of the things we teachers should know:

1. be prepared 

- this could be deemed as one of the most important skills as classroom management is more effective when a teacher is prepared and failing to do so may show weakness and allows the students to disrupt and cause problems while teacher is formulating the plan.

2. be confident

- a teacher who exhibits confidence at all time  rather than timidity will accomplish more in the classroom and gain the respect of the students. confidence assists teachers in terminating doubts in students and being in more control of the classroom.

3. develop a good interpersonal relationship

- with your students of course. a healthy and supportive relationship are among the key factors in the classroom that will help enhance the process greatly.

4. promote appropriate behavior

- behave! this even goes to us teachers. behaving at all times is deemed crucial as we are frequently seen as role models to our students. thus, promoting appropriate behavior is best when we are in class and will be able to contribute to  the personal growth of the students.