1. Classroom Management Instruction: Teaching Strategies
Deb Gribskov

2. I will….. …examine the management strategy of “setting the tone”
…discuss strategies to create student status and engage them in learning
… examine the strategies around proximity and mobility
… explore a fun way to create a READING BASED introductions to learning

3. Setting the Tone….procedures for classroom performance
FOCUSED LEARNING: What are some of the strategies/approaches he uses to “set the tone” and “engage” his students?

4. Setting the Stage – Facilitating Academic Discourse
FOCUSED LEARNING: How does he “value them” and “engage” them?
I look right at them, I see them coming down the hall
I greet them at the door and give them an activity so focus on lesson from moment enter
I encourage them to talk to one another . Learning as a social endeavor

5. A Look at Some General Approahces
Jim Fay
Fred Jones

6. Effective Instruction
Principle One: Start where your students are.
Use the social and cultural capital students bring with them to the classroom to help them acquire
the intellectual capital of the classroom.
Cognitive Empathy: Seek to understand what your students bring to the classroom with them each day
Understand and respect cultural capital

7. Effective Instruction
Principle Two: Know where they are going:
Define a vision for what
students will look like at the end of their time with you and clearly
communicate this to students.
Back-Map: Plan with the end in mind
Communicate high expectations for all students
Be specific about what mastery is
Provide samples of the type of work you expect

8. Effective Instruction
Principle Three: Expect them to get there.
Expectations are not based on
who the students are; they are based on who the students will be by the
time you are finished with them.
• Confront the brutal facts
• Maintain unwavering faith

9. Effective Instruction
Principle Four: Explain to them how they will get there:
Use scaffolding to demystify the academic process.
Show students HOW to study for your course
Model effective practice
Acceleration
Remediation
Graphic Organizers
Intervention Cycles

10. Effective Instruction
Principle Five: Measure progress and give feedback
Use assessments as feedback to help your students adjust performance so that they can make better progress towards their goal.
Use a variety of assessment techniques
Use assessment results to adjust the course to better meet student needs
Provide formative assessments to measure progress towards mastery
Specific, growth-oriented feedback
Timely feedback
Grade Tracking Sheets

11. Effective Instruction
Principle Six: Take the quickest, most direct route. Focus on quality versus quantity.
Only assign work that will advance student learning
No busy work
Fewer homework assignments and worksheets
Distributed practice versus full-length performance every time
Creative use of time

12. Effective Instruction
Principle Seven: Never work harder than your students. Understand and effectively distribute your work and the students’ work.
Analytic Rubrics
Your work versus their work
Cooperative Learning (pairs and triads)
Create a classroom community focused on learning
Study Groups

13. HOMEWORK Read the article provided
# 1 Article Read
Read the article provided
Login and go to this week’s discussion.
Describe your article (briefly) and give one thing you learned or that was re-affirmed for you
Return to the discussion board to read and comment on two other students’ work.
# 2 Visual
Explain three (3) items on this visual as they relate to your classroom management.

14. BE WORKING ON YOUR INSTRUCTION STRATEGIES
HOMEWORK
# 3 coomicmaster.org
Just for FUN
BE WORKING ON YOUR INSTRUCTION STRATEGIES