1. Kounin’s Concepts for Managing Whole-Group Instruction
Classroom Management for Elementary Teachers
CHAPTER 5- Planning and Conducting Instruction
Evertson and Emmer
© 2009 by Pearson / Merrill

2. Three Related Concepts
Preventing Misbehavior
Managing Movement
Maintaining Group Focus

3. Preventing Misbehavior
Withitness
communicating general awareness of the classroom to the students
identifying and correcting misbehavior promptly and correctly

4. Preventing Misbehavior
Overlapping
attending to two or more simultaneous events

5. Managing Movement
Momentum
keeping lessons moving briskly

6. Managing Movement Smoothness staying on-track with the lesson
avoiding digressions / divergences

7. Maintaining Group Focus
Group alerting
engaging the attention of the whole class
while individuals are responding

8. Maintaining Group Focus
Encouraging accountability
communicating to students that their participation will be observed and evaluated

9. Maintaining Group Focus
High-participation formats
using lessons that define behavior of students when they are not directly answering questions

10. Common Problems with Managing Movement
Dangle
Teacher leaves a topic or activity “dangling” to do something else or insert new material
Flip-Flop
A topic that is left over from an earlier activity is inserted

11. Common Problems with Managing Movement
Thrust
New information is inserted when students are involved in another activity
Stimulus-bound
Teacher is distracted and draws the class’s attention to it and away from the lesson

12. Common Problems Poor Transitions Lack of Clarity`
Lack of teacher readiness
Unclear student expectations
Faulty procedures
Lack of Clarity`
Incoherent sequence
Too few examples or illustrations
Failure to check for comprehension
Insufficient practice

13. Checklist 5 (pp )