1. Revisiting Classroom Management Techniques Mid-Year
Classroom Reboot
Revisiting Classroom Management Techniques Mid-Year
Presented by Heather Sparks, Math Instructional Facilitator

2. Impact
“I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.”
-Haim Ginott-
Teacher and Child
Avon Books, 1976

3. Preventative Strategies to Maximize On-Task Behavior
1. Planning efficient room arrangement = easy monitoring = fewer opportunities for distractions and disruptions
2. Establishing rules and procedures (teaching and reinforcing)
3. Reducing transition time between activities
4. Having with-it-ness, overlapping, smoothness, and momentum
5. Building a strong group focus and holding students accountable
6. Building variety into learning activities
Classroom Management Research
Kounin, Rosenshine, Weber, Everston, Emmer, Anderson

4. Self-Reflection Survey
Circle a number from 1 to 10 (10 being the highest) for each group management skill.
Once you have rated yourself on all 8 areas, place a sticky note on our class graph showing the area of greatest potential growth for you. (No need to put your name on the sticky note!)

5. Room Arrangement
1. Planning efficient room arrangement = easy monitoring = fewer opportunities for distractions and disruptions

6. Identifying Action Zones
Think about your classroom. What part of your room is the “Action Zone”, or busiest area? Write this space on a sticky note.
Describe your action zone to a partner. Explain any issues that may arise there.

7. Rules & Procedures
2. Establishing rules and procedures (teaching and reinforcing)

8. Revisiting Procedures
On a sticky note, write down three procedures you will revisit with students tomorrow.

9. 3. Reducing transition time between activities
Time On Task
3. Reducing transition time between activities
On average, 50% of classroom time is lost due to management-related issues (organizational and behavioral).

10. Time Savers
On a notecard, write down one strategy you have used that you consider a time saver. Describe it in detail so that someone else could adopt it.

11. Skillful Teachers
4. Having with-it-ness, overlapping, smoothness, and momentum

12. Student Accountability
5. Building a strong group focus and holding students accountable

13. Student Engagement
6. Building variety into learning activities

14. Brainstorming Carousel
Number off from 1 to 8. Listen for your poster assignment.
When you reach a poster, write your group’s consensus on the poster. Give enough detail that others will understand.
When time is called, move to the next poster.

15. Scenario Sort
With your partner, read each classroom scenario. Then, match each one with the preventative strategy the teacher is forgetting.

16. Revisit Self-Assessment
On the back of your self-assessment, write at least one change you will make in your classroom starting tomorrow.

17. Exit Tickets
&
Door Prizes!