1. Classroom Management

2. Principles of Classroom Management: A Professional Decision-Making Model
To increase the likelihood of bringing about a change in student behaviour, the teacher must first be willing to examine and change his or her own behaviour. (Levin & Nolan, 2016, p. xiii)

3. If students are successful and enjoy positive relationships with adults, they are generally more interested in school, engaged in learning activities, and interact with their peers and teachers. (Levin & Nolan, 2016, p. xiii)

4. Detentions, public reprimands, removed privileges, suspensions, calls to parent and failing grades seem to do little to motivate disruptive students toward appropriate behaviour. (Levin & Nolan, 2016, p. xvii)

5. Don’t compete with your students or assume the full responsibility for their learning. Learning is a dual responsibility. (Levin & Nolan, 2016, p. xxiii)

6. Task - Write a 3 page Classroom Management Plan
3 Elements
Statement of Philosophy (I believe)
Key Elements within a plan (Search Web)
Your Rationale for the above stances (Why)

7. Teaching is “ The use of preplanned behaviors, founded in learning principles and child development theory and directed toward both instructional delivery and classroom management, that increase the probability of affecting a positive change in student behavior ” (Levin & Nolan, 2016, p.4).

8. “. . . Effective classroom management is inseparable from effective instruction” (Levin & Nolan, 2016, p.7).