1. CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

2. OUTLINE Definition Classroom management components: Conduct management
Covenant management
Content management

3. CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
It aims at encouraging and establishing student self
control through a process of promoting positive
student achievement and behavior. Thus academic
achievement, teacher efficacy, and teacher and
student behavior are directly linked with the concept
of school and classroom management.

4. Classroom management focuses on three major components
conduct management: attempts to address and resolve discipline problems in the classroom.
covenant management: classroom group as a social system that has its own features that teachers have to take into account when managing interpersonal relationships in the classroom.
content management: space, materials, equipment, the movement of people, and lessons that are part of a curriculum or program of studies".

5. CONDUCT MANAGEMENT Set the rules Be fair
Deal with disruptions with little interruption
Avoid confrontations
Stop disruptions with a little humor
Overplan
Be consistent

6. COVENANT MANAGEMENT
1. Appropriate teacher behavior and good relationship with the students
Enthusiasm
Acceptance
Ability to listen and pay attention to them
Availability
2. Pleasant and supportive classroom atmosphere
Establish a norm of tolerance
Encourage risk-taking and have mistakes accepted as a
natural part of learning
Bring in and encourage humor
Encourage learners to personalize the classroom environment
according to their taste

7. Use ice-breakers at the beginning of a course
3. A cohesive learner group with appropriate group norms
Try and promote interaction, cooperation and the sharing of genuine personal information among the learners.
Use ice-breakers at the beginning of a course
Regularly use small-group tasks where students can mix
Encourage and if possible organize extracurricular activities and outings
Try and prevent the emergence of rigid sitting patterns.
Avoid face-threatening acts such as humiliating criticism or putting students in the spotlight unexpectedly

8. CONTENT MANAGEMENT Use different materials. Use the students.
What if students are all at different levels?
Use different materials.
Use the students.
Do different tasks with the
same material.

9. What if the class is very big?
Use worksheets.
Use pair work and group work.
Use group leaders.

10. What if students keep using their own language?
Talk to them about the issues.
Encourage them to use English
appropriately.
Create an English environment.

11. What if students are uncooperative?
Talk to individuals
Promote Cooperative Learning
Implement team work activities

12. What if some students in- groups finish before everybody else ?
Use additional material
Finish the activity when the 90 % of the group have finished.

13. What if teachers do not plan the lesson?
Why plan at all
What and when should we plan
Sequence of a lessons

14. REFERENCES
Zoltán Dörneyi (2005) Motivational Strategies in the Language Classroom. Cambridge University Press. UK
Froyen, L. A., & Iverson, A. M. (1999). Schoolwide and classroom management: The reflective educator-leader (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, J: Prentice-Hall.
Harmer, J. (1999) How to Teach English. Longman

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