1. Classroom Management: Are you doing it “the Wong Way?”1

3. Agenda: What is classroom management?
Components of an effective classroom management plan
Importance of procedures
Consistency is key
Procedures for students, teachers, special scenarios
All information in this presentation is based on
Dr. Harry Wong’s book, THE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT BOOK

4. What’s Your Style?
Reflect on your classroom management experiences. What type of classroom manager are you? What are some words to describe the way you handle your classroom management and discipline issues?
Now, if you had to choose an animal to represent your style, what would it be? Why?

6. “If it just weren’t for those few students…”
Picture this: It’s the end of a long day, the students are excitable and bouncing off the walls. They are arguing, pushing, tattling, and ignoring the teacher’s calls for attention.
The teacher, wrung out, exhausted, and counting the minutes until dismissal, sighs and thinks,
“If it just weren’t for those few students…”

7. This is a very common statement among those teachers who are struggling with classroom management. In fact, it’s not a justification, but a viable reason,
a barrier they feel helpless against.
It starts with a few, then the chaos spreads like wildfire….

8. What do You Think is Really Happening?
Fact:
The students are misbehaving because they can. They are misbehaving because of inconsistent accountability, movable boundaries of behavior, and a misunderstanding of effective classroom management.
They are misbehaving because they are bored or dissatisfied, because there isn’t a compelling reason not to, and because the teacher has no leverage

9. Agree or Disagree?
Good classroom management is based on the behavior of teachers – what the teachers do - not the behavior of the students. It is the teacher’s behavior that produces high student engagement, reduces student misbehavior, and maximizes instructional time.

10. The Most Misused Words in Education
Classroom Management
Why?
Discipline Management
Classroom Management
Is reactive
Is proactive
Is problem-driven
Is productivity-driven
Has negative consequences and punishments
Has rewards as increased learning time
Promotes compliance
Promotes responsibility
Stops defiant behavior
Produces predictable behavior

11. So…What Exactly is Classroom Management?
Classroom Management consists of the practices and procedures a teacher uses to maintain the environment in which instruction and learning can take place.

12. Rules and procedures are a part of life..
No Bones About It…
Rules and procedures are a part of life..
Rules and Procedures are the backbone of any successful classroom management plan, and describe how things are to be done in the classroom. They must be taught, rehearsed, and reinforced until they become routines.

13. Are Rules and Procedures the Same?
Find your “sole”mate…someone who has the same type of shoes as you and discuss this question for 3-5 minutes. Be sure to have evidence to support your claim. We will share out with the whole group.

14. A rule identifies general expectations or standards; a single rule can encompass a wide range of expected behaviors.
A procedure communicates expectations for specific behaviors. Effective teachers use both rules and procedures.
Example: Rule: “Respect other students and their property.”
 Procedure: Return all books to correct shelving when complete.
Procedure: Respect all ideas during classroom discussion by listening carefully and responding kindly.

15. Consequences
Consequences are simply the result of either following or not following a rule.
When students follow a rule, the consequences are positive. Examples are incentives such as rewards (good grades, extra credit, good work posted, chosen as student of the day, week, month,etc., VIP certificate, a smile, a word of encouragement, a warm fuzzy note home, a phone call home, stickers, candy)
When students do not follow a rule, the consequences are negative. Consequences should be reasonable and fit the offense if students are to follow them. Negative consequences should follow the campus discipline policy.

16. Above all else, NEVER ARGUE WITH A STUDENT!
Consequences must be consistent and predictable.
Consequences must be posted, both POSITIVE and NEGATIVE.
Students KNOW and recognize fair and equitable application of consequences.
Send a copy of rules, consequences and rewards home for parent and students to sign.
Above all else, NEVER ARGUE WITH A STUDENT!

17. Confronting Students

18. Formulate your PLAN OF ACTION!
If You Aren’t Managing the Classroom, the Students Are Managing It For You
Formulate your PLAN OF ACTION!
Each day, plan your work and work your plan. Then, tweak your plan, as necessary each day, year after year.

19. Who, What, When, Where, and How
Create a procedure for EVERYTHING
Think about:
How you want your students to enter the room, put away their belongings, and start their day.
Homework procedures
Missed work procedures
Turning in work procedures
Lining up procedures
Lunch procedures
Restroom break procedures
The list goes on, and on, and on
Ask yourself: What do I want the students to do so I can teach?

20. Teaching Procedures: There’s a Procedure for That!
TEACH REHEARSE REINFORCE
State, explain, model, and demonstrate the procedure.
Students rehearse and practice the procedure under your supervision.
Reteach, rehearse, practice, and reinforce the procedure until it becomes a habit – a routine.

21. Rehearse and reinforce Organize before students arrive
Plan for success
Rehearse and reinforce
Organize before students arrive
Costs nothing to do
Extra time gained for teaching and learning
Don’t wait until next year; do it now
U make a difference in students’ lives
Rehearse some more
Experience a class that hums with learning
Success is yours because procedures work!
Rules and Procedures: Harry Wong

22. Organized, effective learning environment
Lunch
Getting Students’ Attention
Replacing dull or broken pencils
Agenda
Bell ringer Assignment
Classroom Transitions
Taking Attendance
Bathroom Breaks
Finishing work early
Dismissing Class
Class Discussions
Working in Groups
Collecting Notes and Forms
Correcting Work
Tardies and Absences
Substitute
Taking a test
Paper Headings
Dismissal
Classroom Visitors
Technology
Keeping desks orderly
Independent research
Organized, effective learning environment
If you want it done, you must create a procedure for it.

23. Dependable
Predictable
Consistent
Know the results you come to expect

24. How can we earn the trust of our students?
Students are the same. They want a teacher who is dependable, predictable, and reliable. With consistency comes a feeling of safety, a basic need that must be met before learning will occur.
They must trust you before they will trust what you plan to teach. Students want to come to a school where there are no surprises. They know what to expect, and it happens each day.
How can we earn the trust of our students?

25. Consistency Why You Must be Consistent
Meet Someone New!
Student behavior will reoccur. If you allow students to talk to their neighbors but have already set the rule that it is not allowed, then you must expect that students will not take your rules seriously, therefore the unwanted behavior will happen again and again.
Students will lose respect for you. It’s a fact that your students will lose respect for you if you say you are going to do something, then don’t do it. You are sending students the message that your word cannot be trusted, therefore students will not have any respect for you.  
Students will test you every chance they get. When students learn that you are inconsistent with your word, then they will test you every chance that they can get. They will push the limits and continually walk a fine line around your rules. You will forever be challenged and your frustration will be at an all-time high for the rest of the school year.

26. You Are the KEY to Making This Work!
CONSISTENCY
YEAR
MONTH
WEEK
DAY
HOUR
MINUTE

27. Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say
Tips From an Old Goat
There will be no more spitting at school!
The next person who makes a sound will go straight to the office!
I really mean it this time!
If I have to say this one more time…..
You won’t go outside for the rest of the year!
Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say

28. If the key to effective classroom management is consistency, I guess I’m an effective classroom manager. I am consistently exhausted at the end of the day.

29. A Look Inside