Creating A Positve Environment of Learning
Maham Naveed
General Strategies
Authoritative Classroom Management style
Authoritarian Classroom Management style
Permissive Classroom Management style
Students need a positive environment for learning
Authoritative Classroom Management style
•Encouage students to be independent thinkers
•Show a caring attitude towards students
•Help student become active, self regulated learners
•Teachers clarify rules and regulations
Authoritarian Classroom Management style
•Restrictive and punitive•Focus on keeping order in the classroom
rather than on isntruction and learning
•Students in authoritarian classroom Tend to be passive learnerFail to initiate activitesExpress anxiety about social comparisonHave poor communication skills.
Permissive Classroom Management style
•Provides student with little support for developing learning skills or managing their behavior
•Students in Permissive classroom Inadequate academic skills Low self control
Creating Teaching and Maintaining Rules and Procedures
Teaching: Effective classroom managers•Show teachers are “With it” (Jacob Kounin,
1970)•Cope effectively with overlapping
situation •keep the flow of a lesson moving smoothly•Engage students in variety of challenging
activities
Maintaining Rules and Procedures•Rules focus on general or specific
expectations or standards for behavior•Rules tend not to change
•General rule such as Respect other person
•Specific Rule Cell phones must always be turned off when
you are in classroom
Maintaining Procedures•Procedure usually applied to specific
activity
•Aim is to accomplish something instead of prohibiting behavior or defing a general standards
•Procedues may change because routines and activities in classrooms change
Principles for Established Rules and Procedues for Classroom1. Reasonable and necessary
2. Clear and comprehensible
3. Consistent with instructional and learning goals
4. Consistent with school rules
Getting Students to Cooperate•Develop a positive relationship with students
▫Teacher should care about students as individual’s part from their academic work helps to gain their cooperation
(Jones & jones, 2010)
▫Classroom atmosphere should be relaxed and pleasant
▫Friendly say hello to students at door▫Brief note on encouragement of student
Get Students to Share and Assume Responsibility•Sharing responsibility with students increases
the student’s commitment to the decisions (Blumenfeld, Kempler, 2006)Guidelines
Involve students in planning and implementingEncourage students to judge their own behaviorDon’t accept excusesLet students participate in decision making by
holding classroom meetings
Reward Appropriate Behavior• Choose Effective Reinforcers
Effective reward might be PraisePleasurable activities helps in cooperation
• Use Prompt and shaping effectivelyPrompt come in the form of hints and remindersReward for specified target behavior
• Use Reward to Provide Information about MasteryMastery can increase the intrinsic motivation
and sense of responsibility (Vargas, 2009)
Classroom Management and Diversity
Classroom Management and Diversity•The growing diversity of students makes
classroom management more challenging (Scarlett & singh,
2009)
•Engaging in such culturally responsive can help teachers to reduce discipline problems in their classroom
(Gollnick & Chinn, 2009)
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