1. Welcome!
Please place the stickers you were given on the charts hanging around the room as you come in.

2. Classroom Management: 101
Michelle Beekman & Laura Camp,
WS/FCS Behavior Liaisons

4. Our Ice Breaker…
On an index card, write down 3 things about you

5. What is Behavior Management?
Set of techniques designed to increase desired behaviors 1
Essential for well defined classroom management 2
Includes: Rules (including daily procedures and routines), Systems, and Interventions 3

6. Rules and Consequences:
Plan to respond consistently to student misbehavior

7. Identify and post three to six classroom rules that will be used as a basis for providing positive and corrective feedback.

8. Important: Decide who will help develop the rules
State the rules positively
Rules should be specific and clear
Plan to TEACH your rules using positive and negative examples

9. Enforcing the Rules: Develop a plan for correcting early-stage misbehaviors.
Proximity
Gentle verbal reprimand
Private conference with student
Restitution

10. Develop Consequences for
Committing Rule Violations

11. Be consistent!
For corrective consequences to reduce habitual behavior you MUST implement consistently.
The goal is to develop clear expectations of what behaviors are unacceptable.

13. Be Fair!
Make sure the consequence fits the severity/frequency of the behavior.

14. Be Unemotional!
Do not allow students to play on your emotions; (frustration, hurt, and anger)
Your anger may reinforce the behavior
Student gains a sense of power

17. Is your classroom layout important?
ABSOLUTELY!

19. Decide on a signal you can use to immediately quiet your students and gain their full attention.
Examples?

20. Greet students at the door by name
Have a short task for students to work on as they arrive.
Use a seating chart to take attendance
Develop a procedure/consequences for dealing with tardiness

21. Procedures for during class:
Materials
Clearly communicate what materials they are expected to bring to class
Develop procedures that will allow a student to get whatever he/she does not have
Develop a procedure for hall passes (how, when and why)
Develop a procedure for handing in/out materials
(Create a system that allows students to track their assignments)

22. Procedures for Absences:
Decide how you will deal with missed work
Set up two baskets in the classroom- label one “Missed assignments”, and the other “Due Assignments”
Keep folders in the baskets with the dates they were assigned and when they were due

23. Procedures for End of Class and Dismissal:
Leave enough time at the end of each class to ensure that things end on a relaxed note
Allow time for reminders about homework or other up coming projects
While the students are organizing and packing up give positive feedback to the class as a whole

24. Co –Teaching:
an instructional style intended to support students in diverse classrooms.
personal compatibility is the most critical variable for success.

25. Communication and Collaboration in co-taught classrooms
The Platinum rule:
Treat others the way they want to be treated.

26. Tips for Effective Communication
Verbal and non-verbal signals should be congruent.
Use the appropriate communication tool (i.e. face to face, phone/text, , etc.)
Reflect on your motive for confronting
Consider when and how to confront your partner caringly

27. Getting to Know Your Co-Teacher’s Collaborative Style:
Use a free Collaborative Style Inventory
Create your own list of open ended questions

28. Getting to know your Co-Teacher’s Collaborative Style:
I would describe my personality as…
From my co-teacher, I would appreciate…
I will find co-teaching rewarding if…
In front of students, I would prefer that you do not…
My communication style with adults is…
I tend to deal with conflict by…
I will be embarrassed in class if you…
My approach for decision making is…
You can tell when I am stressed because I will…
Typically when I’m upset I…

30. Survey of Respectful Behavior :
Participants
980 middle school students
Chicago, IL
Approximately 63% of students at school receive free or reduced priced lunch
Survey asked students, “What are some ways that teachers show you respect?”

31. Top 12 Answers
Of the over 2900 responses, the ones listed were written by 50 students or more.
12. Talk sincerely-no sarcasm or “eye rolling”
11. Return work promptly
10. Be available during non-classroom times
9. Use student’s name when talking to them
8. Let parents/guardians know student did a good job sometimes

32. 7. Prepare exciting lessons
6. Display student work around the classroom/school
5. Have a sense of humor
4. Listen without interrupting
3. Respect personal space (don’t touch, grab, eyeball, crowd)
2. Use a calm tone of voice, even when they are upset (No yelling)

33. 1. Talk privately to students when a problem occurs

34. How to motivate?
Forced Choice
Free reinforcers

35. The DIRTY DOZEN Mistakes to avoid…
Inconsistency
Excessive warnings
Excessive public/verbal discipline
Majoring in the minors
Low level distractions
Arguments/power struggles
Not teaching procedures
Being too tolerant
Emphasizing the negative
Disrespectful interventions
Losing control/behaving unprofessionally
Discarding the plan when it doesn’t go as you expected

36. FINAL ACTIVITY

37. Microsoft Engineering Excellence
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